The Alexandra Lookout is a scenic spot offering panoramic views of the town and its surroundings.
President Murray Anderson and secretary Donald Lamont were frustrated that people were pulling stones off the outlook to throw down the hill especially when there were a large number of stones just lying around if people wanted to do that.
"We cannot understand why people go all the way up here to admire the spectacular vistas then think it’s OK to dislodge rocks from the walls of the structure, presumably to just throw them over the side," Mr Anderson said.
A popular way to reach the lookout is by walking up to the Alexandra Mountain Clock situated on a hill overlooking the town, but the more common way is by driving up to it.
Alexandra Lions Club publicity officer Barry McCall said when the lookout was first built it was relatively inaccessible.
It had stone lookout area and rails but no vehicle access or wheelchair access and no signposts to find it from the town, so tourists were unaware of it.
Part of what motivated the Lions club to act was that one of its members was wheelchair-bound.
"One of our Lions members was in a wheelchair, when the club went up there annually to clean up the rubbish left behind from fly-tipping and he could not get to it [the lookout] so we decided to build a carpark with a concrete wheelchair ramp to the lookout."
The club also added accessibility signage and panels as well as landscape photos with text to identify landmarks in the area.
The cost of the upgrade would have been more than $15,000 if the Lions had paid for all of it.
It was completed on December 20, 2017, after six months of volunteer work.
But because of timing and availability, the official opening could not be held until February.
Its completion helped to commemorate 100 years of Lions International, and 50 years of Lions in Alexandra.
Eight years on and it seemed that many of those visiting it were not treating it with any sense of respect, Mr McCall said.
"The stones are being removed, and the panels have been defaced many times.
"We waterblast the signs to keep them clear ... but then that seems to happen everywhere."
