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Gulf Islands National Seashore
Repair and rehabilitation of trails, bridges, waysides, benches and other components associated with trail maintenance. The Florida Scenic Trail spans Florida from the Everglades in the South and ends at Fort Pickens in the North West. Meet the Crew Leader for this trip.
Gateway National Recreation Area, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
This project will be focused on providing amenity improvements to the two main visitor trails at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. The renovation of three bird blinds will be the main project, with additional projects to replace benches, repair boardwalks, and improve overall trail conditions to be completed as time allows. Meet the Crew Leader…
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
Volunteers will repair tread on trail, build water bars, remove vegetation and repair/replace a ladder on the John Litton Loop trail. The use of hand tools such as shovels, rakes, handsaws, hammers, etc. will be used. Meet the Crew Leader for this trip.
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Trail Maintenance on North Manitou Island – The work will include hiking and clearing the 35 miles of wilderness trails on the island. Volunteers will work alongside Park Service employees to use traditional tools such as axe cross cut saw, and peavey to clear and brush the trails on the island. Volunteers may be expected…
Denali National Park and Preserve
The McKinley Bar Trail, near the end of the Denali Park Road, takes hikers from Wonder Lake to the McKinley River and the foothills of the Alaska Range. The 2-mile trail offers spectacular views of Denali and the Alaska Range and takes hikers through open tundra, spruce forest, and across several small streams. The work…
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Volunteers will help with coastal trail projects in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. Projects will include repairing trail tread and drainage systems, re-grading trails, cutting back encroaching vegetation along trail corridors, hauling heavy materials, and maintaining and reconstructing trail features such as staircases, fences, and boardwalks. Meet the Crew Leader for this trip.
Gulf Islands National Seashore
This trail project will include a variety of activities such as brushing back and clearing vegetation from the trail surface. General maintenance and repairs of trail benches. General maintenance and repairs of trail boardwalks and bridges. These tasks will require the use of regular and power hand tools such as power string trimmers, saws, drills,…
Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area
Volunteers will replace an existing bridge on the trail. They will use handsaws, shovels, hammers, rakes, etc. An existing bridge must be removed prior to the start of actual construction of the new bridge.
Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Volunteer will help with coastal trail projects in Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties. Projects will include repairing trail tread and drainage systems, re-grading trails, cutting back encroaching vegetation along trail corridors, hauling heavy materials, and maintaining and reconstructing trail features such as staircases, fences, and boardwalks.
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19: The Beaver Basin Wilderness includes 13 miles of stunning Lake Superior shoreline from Spray Falls on the west to Sevenmile Creek on the east. The wilderness is some 3.5 miles deep. The Beaver Basin Wilderness offers opportunities for quiet, solitude, wilderness recreation, and spiritual renewal. The wilderness zone includes 8.4 miles…
Big South Fork River and Recreation Area
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19: Volunteers will spend the week working on the Oscar Blevins Loop Trail and the West Entrance Trail. Work will consist of basic trail tread such as building water bars and reconstructing a small puncheon foot bridge. On the John Litton Loop workers will reconstruct a ladder. Tools will consist of handsaws,…
Camp Nelson National Monument, Kentucky – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Michigan – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Tennessee – Volunteer Vacations 2022
Camp Nelson National Monument, KY – Volunteer Vacations 2023
Shenandoah National Park, VA – Volunteer Vacations 2023
Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area, TN – Volunteer Vacations 2023
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY – Volunteer Vacations 2023
Prince William Forest Park, VA – Volunteer Vacations 2023
Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area, TN – Volunteer Vacation 2024
Shenandoah National Park, VA – Volunteer Vacation 2024
Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, PA – Volunteer Vacation 2024
Special Weekend Trip! Mammoth Cave National Park, KY – Volunteer Vacation 2024
Mammoth Cave National Park, KY (Weekend Trip)
Explore the longest known cave system in the world! Mammoth Cave National Park is a park on two levels – 52,830 acres of reclaimed hardwood forest and winding riverways, and below it, the longest known cave system in the world, surveyed at 426 miles to date. It’s also a designated World Heritage Site and a…