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WORK CAMPING

According to Workamper News, work campers are adventurous individuals, couples, and families who have chosen a wonderful lifestyle that combines any kind of part-time or full-time work or volunteering with RV camping.  We had gone to Texas because I had taken a position with Christian Resort Ministries (CRM). I would be serving as chaplain for CRM in an RV Resort. I would receive a portion of…

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Adjusting from Working in a Home to Working in your Camper.

Adjusting from Working in a Home to Working in your Camper.

This is something that many RVERS or Travelers struggle with! I (Ariel) am going to talk about how to set up your rv/tiny work space for success and get what you need to done. There are a lot of simple things you can do to become more productive in a tiny space and I felt that this is something a lot of YOU need so here we are! Clear the Clutter! First, you want to get your space CLEARED of…

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New Work Camping Job Posting - Hershey Entertainment and Resorts

New Work Camping Job Posting – Hershey Entertainment and Resorts

New Work Camping Job Posting – Hershey Entertainment and Resorts (Received 11/21/18)   Job Description:   This position is responsible for cleaning, grounds keeping, and providing maintenance to all areas of the Hersheypark Camping Resort. This is a seasonal position available for the peak season which begins in March, and continues thru the fall/winter shoulder season. This is primarily a first…

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This Camp Host opening just received from Shirley at Cottonwood Campground. A great opportunity for work camping in Columbia Falls, Maine. Give Shirley a call today.

How about a Summer in New England Maine to be exact! This Camp Host opening just received from Shirley at Cottonwood Campground. A great opportunity for work camping in Columbia Falls, Maine. Give Shirley a call today.

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A Cheaper Way to See the USA: Volunteering in Nation’s Parks

By Jim Gold, MoneyTalksNews, March 12, 2015

You could camp this summer at Yellowstone National Park for $22.50 a night, if you can get reservations, or you could park your RV free by volunteering as a campground host.

This is just one of the hundreds of volunteer opportunities that come with some sort of lodging via the National Park Service this year.

Often referred to as “work camping,” thousands of volunteer opportunities with amenities that you might find amenable also are available through federal agencies, including the Fish and Wildlife Service, Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and the Army Corps of Engineers. Many states offer free stays for their park volunteers, too.

Duties vary widely. For example:

Campground hosts at Yellowstone maintain campsites, tell visitors about park programs, explain how food storage regulations help keep black bears at bay and assist in special operations like looking for little campers gone astray. In return, NPS offers free hookups (water, sewer and electricity) for their RV or full trailer in the large campgrounds and partial hookups in remote campgrounds. Propane is reimbursed after the season.

Interpretive guides at Garnet Ghost Town in western Montana lead visitors back in time and tell them about the area’s mining heritage and Montana history. They work in the visitors center and conduct guided tours through the hills. In return, BLM offers a cabin with no electricity, running water or bathroom. It does provide propane for a cooking stove and wood for wood stove.

Other volunteers who often tow their housing with them may conduct wildlife population surveys, assist in laboratory research, photograph wildlife and habitats, present living history demonstrations in period costumes, build fences, paint buildings, make cabinets, clear trails or even work behind the scenes on agency websites.

Some assignments require just three days of work a week, others more, to qualify for housing or RV space.

Many volunteer posts with lodging require time commitments--often one to three months.

At Grand Portage National Monument in Minnesota, RV pads, hookups and laundry are available to friendly, active living-history volunteers who commit to stay through Labor Day and portray the year 1797 with third-person interpretation and demonstrations.

If you haven’t got a whole season, some travel volunteer opportunities take just a week.

Trash Tracker participants help clean up along the 1,960-mile Lake Powell shoreline in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area along the Arizona-Utah border. In return, they spend five to seven days aboard a houseboat donated by park concessionaire Aramark. They bring their own food.

Thousands of people volunteer each year.

The National Park Service alone in 2014 tallied 246,000 Volunteers-In-Parks (VIPs), who donated about 6.7 million hours of service working side-by-side with rangers so 292.8 million visitors could enjoy their jaunts.

“This is the equivalent of having about more than 3,200 additional employees,” the NPS says.

Volunteers say they get plenty out of their experiences.

Volunteer Donald Davidson said he volunteered while seeking ways to study plants native to the Southwest.

“I enjoy the opportunity to use my skills and talents as both an artist and a teacher to bring the conservation message to the public,” Davidson explains in a 2014 NPS video about volunteering.

Rex Gresham of Dallas said in a 2011 NPS video he’d never backpacked or been in the wilderness before volunteering for the first of 140 service projects in which he participated.

“Even the work we did on the trails, I’ve never done anything like that before. … We wasn’t getting paid and I couldn’t get enough of it.”

Volunteers come in all ages, as families, couples or individuals. Some duties and time commitments lasting weeks or months better suit empty nesters and retirees.

To get started, visit Volunteer.gov to apply. You can search for opportunities based on keywords, location, agency, interest or even housing type: bunk house, cabin, campsite, RV/trailer pad or even a trailer.