KAT Challenge
Keep our Waterways Clean!
Every year we encourage our kayaking community to help clean up our waterways. The last 3 years have been a huge success with the KAT Challenge! Almost every group participated in it that hit the water with us. Our groups collected tons and TONS of trash, and we've had 1,000's of people participating while on our trips!! Here's to another fantastic season of keeping Center Hill Lake and Burgess Falls Clean!
About the KAT Challenge: You will have an option to carry a bag along with you that we provide and pick up as much trash as you can. The person who collects the most on our trip will get a shiny new KAT Challenge Pin and their picture on our website here on our KAT Challenge Page. All who participate will get a special shout-out on our FB and Instagram pages for being protectors of our beautiful Tennessee waterways!
Current KAT Challenge Trip Winner!
Winner Lisa! 5.30.25
Thank you to Lisa for keeping our waterways clean and for your dedication to ensuring it stays beautiful for many generations to come! Lisa did an amazing job looking for trash! She always comes ready for the KAT Challenge when on our trip! She even helps us with cleanups in the off season! She got right to the challenge and cleaned up the entire trip. She came back with one very full bag and was named the trip winner by group vote at the end! Thank you so much Lisa for helping to keep Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake clean!
KAT Challenge Previous Winners!
Dawn 5.29.25
Thank you to Dawn for keeping our waterways clean and for your dedication to ensuring it stays beautiful for many generations to come! Dawn did an awesome job of searching for trash and was even keeping track of how much she had found. By the time we reached Burgess she already had over 70 pieces of trash in her bag! She came back with one very full bag and was named the trip winner by group vote at the end!! Thank you so much Dawn for helping to keep Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake clean!
Marilyn 5.28.25
Thank you to Marilyn for keeping our waterways clean and for your dedication to ensuring it stays beautiful for many generations to come! Marilyn did an awesome job looking for trash today but what put her over the top was a heavy piece of dock foam that she managed to wrangle onto her kayak! She came back with a bag of trash and the dock foam at the end of the trip. She was named the trip winner by group vote! Thank you so much for helping to keep Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake clean!
Martin & Jayne 5.27.25
Thank you to Martin & Jayne for keeping our waterways clean and for your dedication to ensuring it stays beautiful for many generations to come! These two tag-teamed the KAT Challenge today and came out victorious! They looked all over the waterway during the trip and came back with some pretty full bags! They did a fantastic job and were named the trip winners at the end! Thank you both so much for helping to keep Burgess Falls and Center Hill Lake clean!
Amount of Trash Removed in 2025 so far:
616.97 Pounds
KAT Challenge Gallery of Winners 2025!
KAT Challenge Gallery of Participants 2025!
Proud Stewardship Partners With Responsible Stewarship
“We are a proud Stewardship Partner of Responsible Stewardship, Inc. They are an all volunteer operated, action based 501(c)3 environmental nonprofit based here in Tennessee. Together we are joining them in their mission to remove litter and trash from our outdoor spaces and doing our part to help make them more inviting to everyone. By helping to restore and preserve these outdoor spaces, we are insuring these spaces will be a better place to recreate for generations to come.”