This employers also include significant options for winter work in ski lodges and tropical beach resorts. Food and lodging is frequently provided for free or at a discounted rate. Our program profiles all national parks, historic sites, national recreation areas, forests, and selected state parks that hire significant numbers of seasonal workers. This category also includes nonprofit, volunteer organizations. These are private companies that hire employees to work in national parks independent of the federal government.
Concessionaires provide temporary workers without draining the park's personnel resources.
These companies cater to visitor needs such as food, lodging, gas, and gifts, that are not easily managed by Park Service employees. And, as the economy has picked up in the past couple of years, many people are now taking the vacations they delayed, and record numbers of vacationers have been visiting parks and resorts. In addition, most of the employers in our program manual provide free or heavily discounted food and lodging, so you can save most of what you earn. Our outside summer job program is one of our most popular. There are all sorts of jobs available including trail and tour guides, wildlife and forestry assistants, resort staff, ride operators, trail maintenance workers, lifeguards, river-rafting guides, and many more all over the country.