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Governor's Community Achievement Award

Governor’s Community Achievement Awards

Meet the 2025 GCAA Winning Communities

OVERVIEW

For more than thirty years, Keep Texas Beautiful, in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), has awarded the prestigious Governor’s Community Achievement Awards to Texas communities for their outstanding overall efforts to keep their communities beautiful.

The GCAA program has recognized outstanding communities since 1969, with TxDOT providing landscaping award funding since 1985. This year, ten winning communities will share $2 million in landscaping awards from the Texas Department of Transportation, with the amount based on population size. The funds are used for landscaping projects along state rights-of-way.

A community’s environmental program is judged on achievements in seven areas:

  • Community Leadership and Coordination
  • Public Awareness and Outreach
  • Environmental Education and Youth Engagement
  • Beautification and Community Improvement
  • Litter Prevention and Cleanup
  • Solid Waste Management
  • Litter Law and Illegal Dumping Enforcement
And the winners are….
Read About the 2025 Winning Communities
read more about the 2025 winning communities
Blanco, TX - group poses by the "Welcome to Blanco" sign
Port Aransas, woman poses with recycling tib next to a mural of a sea turtle
Pilot Point- workers placing debris into a trailer
Levelland--Adopt a Highway cleanup
Angleton group at a shredding event
Copperas Cove cleanup volunteers pose in orange safety vests
Keep Haltom City Beautiful at a community event
Waco celebrates the opening of a community garden with a ribbon cutting
Laredo volunteers clean and spruce up a park and playground area with mulch

Awards

Winning communities work closely with the design team from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to design a landscape award along a local state-maintained roadway.

Each winning community also receives a cast aluminum plaque to display in their town or city.

 
 
 
 
 
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AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINED EXCELLENCE

Judges will recognize all applicants scoring 90 points or above with the Award of Excellence. This prestigious award distinguishes these communities throughout Texas for their outstanding achievements in protecting and enhancing their local environment, exemplifying their efforts as the standard of environmental excellence for communities nationwide.

The Sustained Excellence Award recognizes the communities that have scored 90 or above in the GCAA competition for three consecutive years. Recipients of this esteemed award are recognized for their ongoing commitment to making Texas the cleanest, most beautiful state in the nation.

PAST WINNERS

Winners of a 2023 GCAA award celebrate at the check presentation

CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE OUTSTANDING COMMUNITIES

2024 Winners

 

  1. Argyle
  2. Whitesboro
  3. Alpine
  4. Seabrook
  5. Anna
  6. Del Rio
  7. Little Elm
  8. San Marcos
  9. Pearland
  10. Garland

2023 Winners

 

  1. Collinsville
  2. Chandler
  3. Nolanville
  4. Henderson
  5. Dickinson
  6. Lake Jackson
  7. Burleson
  8. Pflugerville
  9. McAllen
  10. Frisco

2022 Winners

 

  1. SALADO
  2. RICHWOOD
  3. LUCAS
  4. WOODWAY
  5. KATY
  6. CANYON LAKE
  7. GRAPEVINE
  8. ROWLETT
  9. ALLEN
  10. IRVING

2021 Winners

 

  1. MUENSTER
  2. SAN SABA
  3. CUERO
  4. ATHENS
  5. GATESVILLE
  6. DUNCANVILLE
  7. FRIENDSWOOD
  8. MANSFIELD
  9. DENTON
  10. McKINNEY

2020 Winners

 

  1. South Padre Island
  2. Weston Lakes
  3. Lago Vista
  4. Levelland
  5. White Settlement
  6. Alvin
  7. The Colony
  8. Harlingen
  9. Tyler
  10. Grand Prairie

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