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Campground Hosts Needed
Love to go camping? Spend your summer as a Campground Host! Olympic National Park needs you to help staff their campgrounds this summer. If you are seeking a unique wilderness experience, this may be the opportunity for you! Enjoy the meditative beauty of the Olympic Peninsula while helping other visitors to do the same.
You will meet and greet the public, manage campground operations, and provide information about area features, trails, facilities and park regulations. You will be responsible for light upkeep of the area, including picking up trash, repairing items or reporting problems. You will also hike area trails and educate visitors on ‘Leave-No-Trace’ ethics and park policies. You may also be assisting with small visitor problems, like flat tires or keys locked in a car, and will be generally visible and accessible while in the campground. Campground hosts may also function as dual control for fee envelopes.
You may have to respond to emergencies in the campground or surrounding trail areas. You will be trained on radio usage and may participate in CPR/First Aid/ and Search and Rescue Training if desired.
Qualifications:
Volunteers must be friendly, outgoing and able to talk to all types of people. Volunteers should be able to take initiative and be able to handle small emergency situations when necessary. Volunteers should be independent workers with good communication skills. Volunteers must be willing to live and work, often unsupervised, in a remote location that offers solitude and spectacular views. Volunteers must be willing to learn new skills, able to take initiative when necessary, and possess the ability to make sound common sense decisions. Volunteers must come with a profound appreciation for nature and the outdoors.
We are currently accepting applications for the following host positions:
Campground Host: Deer Park
Camground Host: Hoh Rain Forest
Campground Host: Kalaloch
Campground Host: Deer Park
As a Campground Host, you will have a rare opportunity to live in the Deer Park Ranger station, a remote cabin at 5500 ft. elevation and accessed by a 18-mile winding gravel road. Deer Park offers spectacular alpine scenery, a small tents-only campground and hiking trails.
A volunteer couple is preferred, but not mandatory. Each volunteer must work 30 hours in exchange for free housing. Volunteers will live in and staff a small, historic cabin, with a wood stove, a bedroom/living area, a kitchen/dining area, and an indoor bathroom with a shower. Propane heat, cooking, refrigeration, and running water are available, but there is no electricity.
Campground Host: Hoh Rain Forest
The Hoh Rainforest campground is located about 90 miles from Port Angeles (population 19,000), a town with most major amenities, including grocery stores, shopping, and a hospital and pharmacy. The campground is 25 miles from Forks, a smaller, more rural community. There is a host site in the campground that has full RV hookups, however, there are no shower facilities available.
Each volunteer will work a minimum of 30 hours per week in exchange for an RV site with hook-ups. Individuals or couples are welcomed. Some expenses may be covered as directly reimbursable expenses. You will receive training, uniforms, and opportunities to participate in special or “behind-the-scenes” events.
Campground Host: Kalaloch
The Kalaloch campground is located right on the beach! Each volunteer will work a minimum of 30 hours per week in exchange for an RV site with hook-ups. Individuals or couples are welcomed. Some expenses may be covered as directly reimbursable expenses. You will receive training, uniforms, and opportunities to participate in special or “behind-the-scenes” events.
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