Volunteer

Interpretation & Visitor Services

• Interpretation: Duties include helping at the Visitor Center desk and/or being a living history interpreter/docent wearing reproduction 19th-century attire provided by the park. Required reading is assigned to all visitor service positions.
  • Historic Firearms: Living history volunteers handling historic firearms must review these manuals and policies and attend a mandatory training.

Cultural Resources

• Curatorial Assistants: Duties include working with park museum collection and the curator.
• Library: Duties include assisting with research projects, indexing microfilmed historical records, and cataloging books, photos, or maps.

Facility Management

• Resource Management: Duties include trail maintenance, litter removal, and looking for signs of safety hazards or vandalism.

Administration

• Clerical Assistance: Duties include typing, filing, copying, collating, stamping/stuffing envelopes, and performing computer-related tasks.

To view more NPS volunteer opportunities, go to Volunteer.gov.