Campground Host Volunteer

FROM: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a09SJ00000H1x2f

ADDRESS: 231 North Main Street  Rutland, Vermont, 05701

DATES: 5/22/2026 – 10/12/2026

DEPT: Forest Service

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Do you prefer working outside AND helping others enjoy nature than Hapgood Pond in the Green Mountain National Forest is for you! As a campground host based at the Hapgood Pond Campground, you’ll help visitors get the most out their trip. Please commit to at least four months during the months of late May 2026 through early October 2026. During these months, you will experience spring, summer and peak foliage in heart of Vermont. The campground host site is private and located away from the campground loop and includes hook ups (power, water, and sewage) for an RV. The host must have a personal RV for use at the site. A golf cart is provided for working within the campground. A garage is located at the host site for additional storage needs.

Hapgood Pond Recreation Area offers 28 campsites and 2 day-use picnic pavilions for groups. Campsites 9-28 are reservable on Recreation.gov and sites 1-8 are first come first serve. The two pavilions are available for reservations as well.

Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Each family campsite is equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring with grill, parking spur, and a cleared area for a tent. Each group picnic shelter can accommodate up to 35 people, and is equipped with a pavilion, picnic tables, and a grill. The day use area has a beach for swimming in the 12-acre pond and a bathhouse with flush toilets and showers. Hapgood Pond is a popular place for non-motorized boating, including canoeing and kayaking. A carry-down launch area is located on the south end of the pond. Fishing is popular and the pond is stocked with brook trout an accessible fishing pier is located on the south shore. There is a 1-mile nature trail loop that begins in the day-use area and continues around the north edge of the pond and across the dam.

Responsibilities and Qualifications:

·    Hosts are the “eyes and ears” of campgrounds: provide rangers with updates on campground facilities, visitor use, wildlife sightings, adverse resource impacts, and safety concerns.

·    Tactfully advise visitors/campers on regulations that encourage safety, harmonious interactions with other visitors, and wellbeing of ecosystems, but do not take direct action involving law enforcement situations.

·    Use tech-savviness to help campers with Recreation.gov online campground reservation/registration system; hosts do not accept or handle recreational fee transactions.

·    Assist Forest Service staff with campground operations and upkeep, including cleaning the bathhouse restrooms and vault toilets in the campground.

·  Clean and maintain campsites after each use. Post and update reservations at each site using a marker board.

·    As campground hosts live at the designated host site within the campground, you are subject to requests for assistance at all hours of the day.

·  Enforce quite hours within the campground.

·  Assist with drinking water system maintenance, including testing water, recording use, and adjusting chlorine levels.

·  Operate and maintain the day use automated fee machine. Change paper rolls, clean card reader, and trouble shoot network connection as needed.

·    Occasionally rove hiking trails and paved and unpaved roads to assist and educate visitors.

·    Assist visitors by connecting them with proper resources when their vehicles have run out of fuel, experience lockouts or mechanical trouble.

·    In the application include references.

Tagged as: SUMMER '26