Job Description
FROM: https://www.volunteer.gov/s/volunteer-opportunity/a09SJ000002RFEj
ADDRESS: 9922 Front Street Empire, Michigan, 49630
DATES: 2025-07-15
DEPT: National Park Service
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Location Description:
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore is a 71,000-acre park featuring sand dunes, beech/maple and pine/oak forests, rivers, inland lakes, miles of Lake Michigan beach, two offshore islands, historic farming district, a lighthouse, two campgrounds and 105 miles of hiking trails.
Position Description:
1 position are available at D.H. Day Campground for Summer 2025. Campground hosts primary duties include:
- Assist campground staff.
- Interact with visitors, answering questions, and acting as a resource for park information.
- Periodically patrol the campground & remove expired tags from site posts, confirm site occupancy and availability,
- Perform campground rule compliance checks & make contact with campers or leave notices, watch for problems, and make contacts with visitors to impart information.
- Daily cleaning of campsites and fire pits as sites become vacant.
- Operate an E-Z-GO electric cart.
- Assist with vehicle parking/trailer & RV backing (if needed and comfortable assisting).
Opportunity Time frame:
- July 15 – October 16
- We ask that hosts serve a minimum of two months in this opportunity.
- Currently, there is one full season position open, but we will consider shorter term positions as well
Time Commitment:
- Generally, a minimum of 32 hours per week is required for the volunteer occupants of one campsite.
- Work period is typically 4 days on duty followed by 3 days off duty.
Benefits:
In exchange for volunteer services (minimum of 32 hours of work/week), campground hosts are provided with a campsite with water and electricity for use with their RV (or tent).
- Campsites have water/electric hook-ups only, (no sewer), dump station is available.
Campground hosts have access to a restroom with a shower, and a washer/dryer at D.H. Day Campground.
Volunteer Uniforms provided.