• Sierra del Carmen

    Big Bend

    National Park Texas

Volunteer Handbook

Welcome Volunteers! 

Here is a handbook on the policies and procedures of Big Bend National Park's Volunteer-In-Parks Program. If you would like a hardcopy of this handbook, please contact the Volunteer Coordinator.  

Volunteer handbook [1MB PDF file]

Did You Know?

Longhorn in repose

As planning progressed for the new Big Bend National Park in the early 1940s, one prominent proposal called for the development of a dude ranch in the new park. Occupying as much as 200,000 acres, the ranch would have featured longhorn cattle. Objections by biologists helped eliminate the idea. More...