PHOTO BY PARK VOLUNTEER THOMAS M. STROM

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

The park is in critical need of RV volunteers for the 2011-2012 visitor season. These volunteers live in the park in their own RV, and become a crucial part of the park's staff, conducting tours, talks, and other interpretive programs, and working in the visitor center. For more information, call the park's volunteer coordinator at 305-230-1144, x012.

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

Visit our Volunteer Position Descriptions page

Visit our Volunteer Application Forms page