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Little rocks. Real journeys.

Small acts. Shared impact.

Meet the painted rocks connecting people and places. Open a passport, follow its travel journal, and discover the small acts of care along the way.

Create a passport for your painted rock, pass it to someone new, and follow its journey through photos, places, and shared stories.

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Create a traveling rock
No rock, post or shared location is required to take part.

Meet the traveling rocks.

Every passport belongs to a real rock. Its stories are shared by the people it meets.

All rock profiles
Published portrait of Kitten

Kitten

I'm a cute kitten painted by a creative person in Washington State.

1 published diary entry Latest visit: November 3, 2026 · Ubud, Indonesia
Meet Kitten
Published portrait of Tacoma Rock

Tacoma Rock

I was painted at the TacomaRocks project and was put into a backyard of one nice lady.

0 published diary entriesLaunched · November 2, 2026 · Tacoma, United States
Meet Tacoma Rock
Our values

Creativity. Environment. Human connection.

Three values shape every journey: express yourself, care for nature, and bring people together. A small painted rock can carry all three from hand to hand.

Creativity

Paint a picture on your own rock with suitable paints — a cat, a flower, a pattern, or something entirely yours. Give it a personality. Avoid glitter and decorations that can flake off.

Environment

Care for the places you visit and pick up litter safely. Small real actions matter; cleanup reports stay separate from travel stories. Never leave painted rocks in nature.

Human connection

Pass your rock directly to another person, meet someone new, and share a little creativity and care. Its diary connects the people it meets through stories told in the rock's voice.

The people behind Traveling Rock

Founders’ stories

A little about the ideas and values behind the movement.

Co-founder

Tanya

I started Traveling Rock with a simple idea: caring for the environment can be creative, personal, and shared. A painted rock can start a conversation. A small cleanup can turn that conversation into an act of care. I wanted to bring those possibilities together, without making participation complicated.

For me, the heart of the project is the connection between creativity, the environment, and people. Painting your own rock makes room for imagination. Passing it directly to another person—not leaving it in nature—offers a chance to connect. A diary told in the rock’s voice can remember the people it meets and the places it visits. I want those stories to help us notice both our surroundings and one another.

It matters to me that joining remains a choice. You don’t need a rock, a public post, a shared location, or a faraway adventure to help. An ordinary cleanup close to home belongs here too. Travel stories and handoffs stay separate from cleanup totals, because I want our shared progress to reflect real, reported actions—not bigger promises. My hope is simple: as a little creativity travels from hand to hand, a habit of caring can travel with it.

Co-founder

Nadya

Story to be added.
Our shared progress

Every piece adds up.

26Litter items reported collected
2Cleanups logged
2Cigarette butts reported collected

Based on participant reports. Photos and AI suggestions are not independent verification.

How our count works
Reported litter by category
Cigarette butts2
Plastic bottles10
Metal cans5
Wrappers3
Plastic bags1
Paper/cardboard5
Glass bottles0
Other litter0

Cleanups without an item count: 1

Start wherever you are

Notice it. Pick it up. Make it count.

Add my cleanup
  1. 01

    A little care

    Collect litter safely and put it in the appropriate bin or collection point. Even one item counts.

  2. 02

    Make it count

    Add a photo now or later. Check the suggested items and confirm your cleanup. No photo? You can enter it manually.

  3. 03

    Pass on the inspiration

    See your contribution join the shared total. Share a story, a painted rock, or the place you helped — and invite someone else to take part.

Different places. One shared purpose.

A little story can start something.

Share what you made, what you noticed, and what you left a little cleaner. Your small story may be someone else’s reason to begin.

Real stories appear here only after their authors consent and a review approves them.

Every story starts with someone who cares.

Share a place, a painted rock, or a small change you made.

Creativity, passed from hand to hand

A little art. A reason to connect.

Cats, fish, flowers, or a tiny world of your own — give a rock some personality. Share your creation, pass it directly to another person, and tell them the mission. No artistic skills required. An unpainted rock is welcome too.

Use your own materials or those obtained with permission. Don’t take stones from protected places, paint natural objects in place, or leave painted rocks in nature. Pass them directly to another person; avoid glitter and loose decorations.

Same place. A little more care.

A bench, a bus stop, a beach, or a corner of your street. Show the small change you made. Add before-and-after photos when you have them — an after photo is welcome on its own.

Stories show the place. Only a separate confirmed cleanup adds to our count.

Discover the places we care for.

See the world through small acts of care — a shoreline, a neighborhood bench, a park close to home. You don’t have to travel far to find somewhere worth caring for.

Start wherever you are

Add my cleanup

Add your cleanup

A small cleanup counts. Add an optional photo for private storage with your manual item counts, or enter your items without a photo.

Upload a photo

Upload the litter you collected for your manual count. With your storage consent, this counting photo is kept private and deleted after 365 days. A photo is not required. You can add a separate place or rock photo to a story afterward.

Please do not upload faces of other people, children, or personal information.

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Items collected

Leave an item blank when its number is unknown. Unknown quantities do not become zero.

Leave an item blank when its number is unknown. Unknown quantities do not become zero.

About this cleanup

Only add a weight you actually measured for everything collected. Estimated weight is not used.

Your reported item counts, cleanup date and time zone, and any optional alias, city, country, or measured weight are stored privately in Cloudflare D1. Only aggregate totals are shown publicly. Your private manage link can edit or delete this cleanup. Read our privacy notes.

Please submit a shared cleanup once, not once per person.

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One cigarette butt still matters.

Most cigarette filters contain cellulose acetate. Their fibers can break into smaller pieces rather than disappear. Rain and runoff can carry discarded butts into waterways.

Source: NOAASource checked 16 October 2026.

Small actions. Safety first.

Use gloves or a litter picker. Do not handle needles, sharp or hazardous waste. Keep children supervised. Stay away from unsafe areas and report dangerous items to the appropriate local service.

Cleanup safety guidance
Small enough to hold. Simple enough to share.

Pass the rock. Keep the habit.

I travel from hand to hand, not by being left in nature. Pass me directly to another person and invite them to write our next chapter. My passport remembers our encounters; anyone can start a rock of their own.

#TravelingRock
How our count works

A shared count, not a claim of proof.

Our totals use accepted, saved participant reports. Human-confirmed counts replace AI suggestions. Unknown quantities count as a cleanup, not an invented number of items. Corrections replace previous counts; deleted, rejected, test and pending-review records are excluded. Monthly results use the date the cleanup happened, not the upload date.

A litter photo stays private by default. Rock art, places and before/after stories do not add extra items. Stories appear publicly only with permission and moderation.

Estimated weight and environmental-equivalence calculations are off. If you weighed the whole cleanup, your reported scale weight is kept separate; it is not independently verified.

Privacy & photo notes