• Purple, yellow, gold and orange sponges and soft corals wave against a turquioise sea.

    Biscayne

    National Park Florida

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Volunteer

Volunteer Roger Boone helps a Family Fun Fest participant learn about marine archaeology.

Volunteer Roger Boone helps a young Family Fun Fest participant learn about marine archaeology.

PHOTO BY PARK VOLUNTEER THOMAS M. STROM

Whether you are retired and looking for a way to give back to the community, a college student looking for valuable career experience, or someone actively working and just looking for an occasional change of pace, there are opportunities for you as a volunteer at Biscayne National Park.

Volunteers fill a variety of roles in the park, including:

  • providing visitor information at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center
  • counting and measuring fish at area marinas to provide important data that will help ensure sustainable fisheries
  • roving the park's islands in a boat providing visitor information
  • working with kids and families at the park's award-winning Family Fun Fest
  • serving as a resident host onboard your own boat at Boca Chita Key
  • participating in one of several yearly cleanups to help remove some of the many tons of debris that wash onto park shorelines

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Did You Know?

Stiltsville in Blue © Brian Call

Stiltsville is a collection of colorful and battered buildings in the shallows at the northern end of Biscayne National Park. The history of buildings like these goes back to the 1930s when a community of squatters took hold here. More...