Type of Work

Volunteers will be trained for visitor center and interpretive duties. The visitor center includes providing orientation information to visitors, answering their questions, collection of monument entrance fees, selling passports, and answering the phone when needed. Commonly four hours of your duty shift will be on the front desk. Interpretive duties include providing 30 minute tours of the main historic building, called "Winsor Castle" or the "fort." Two hours each day will be on fort tour assignment. Cleaning of the fort and museum on a daily and weekly basis is part of your volunteer duties, along with answering mail inquiries.

During the times of year when we have enough staff and visitors a volunteer may be interested in preparing and presenting short cultural or natural history talks with a Pipe Spring focus. A volunteer might prefer doing a demonstration on some aspect of life at Pipe Spring.

Some volunteers may wish to work on the grounds, gardening, feeding livestock, caring for and riding horses, and other maintenance duties. If you have skills in research, office work or clerical skills there may be projects suited to those skills.