Summer
Fall
To apply for this job email your details to amanda.j.barlow@usace.army.mil
Job Description
The Army Corps of Engineers- Dworshak Project is recruiting maintenance volunteer couples for Dworshak Dam and Reservoir’s Dent Acres Campground! Dent Acres Campground is a full hookup, full-service campground consisting of 50 campsites, day use area, boat ramp and group campground. We need couples to work from approximately April/May through September (or later). At the Dworshak Project we have a three-story visitor center, over twenty miles of hiking trails, one full-service campground, three primitive campgrounds, four day use areas, seven boat ramps, and over seventy mini-camps which are accessible by boat. We are located in a mountain valley with amazing scenery, and lots of wildlife.
Your job duties at Dworshak would include cleaning campsites and fire rings, picking up litter, emptying garbage cans, mowing lawns, operating a weed eater, trimming branches, painting, and using the blower at our units around Dent Acres Campground. Transportation and supplies for completing tasks are provided. The schedule for our Volunteers is usually a rotating four days on- four days off. The rotating schedule allows you time to explore this incredible area.
We provide full-service hookups, propane, and 50-amp electricity. We also provided free laundry facilities, a freezer, and fridge that will be shared with other volunteer couples. Pets are welcome!
The North Fork of the Clearwater River fills the 54-mile reservoir that is created by Dworshak Dam located in Ahsahka. The dam is five minutes from Orofino, while Dent Acres Campground is about a 30 + min. drive to Orofino. Orofino has everything from a hospital, library, movie theater, grocery stores, and an amazing County Fair in September. Lewiston, ID and Clarkston, WA are about 40 miles downriver from Orofino and have all the larger shopping options- Costco, Walmart, Winco.
To apply for this job email your details to amanda.j.barlow@usace.army.mil