Volunteer

Come enjoy the outdoors and help one of our many trails in the parks.

 

Come help us and become a part of the National Capital Parks-East team.

Volunteers-In-Parks (VIPs) are an important part of National Capital Parks-East. Each year we benefit from the efforts of hundreds of VIPs who assist us with a variety of projects and tasks; including garden and trail maintenance, visitor services and interpretation, historic buildings maintenance and preservation, and archival letter transcription.

For more information on the Volunteers-In-Parks program at National Capital Parks-East, please contact the park’s Volunteer Coordinator at [phone] or email the Volunteer Coordinator.
For information on the Volunteers-In-Parks program nationwide, visit www.nps.gov/volunteer.

For information on volunteer opportunities nationwide, visit www.volunteer.gov/gov

 

We need your volunteer help. Here is a group enjoying the beautiful outdoors putting together fifteen picnic tables.

 

VIP Program Mission
The National Park Service Volunteers-In-Parks Program (VIP) was authorized by Public Law 91-357 enacted 1970.
The primary purpose of the VIP program is to provide a vehicle through which the National Park Service can accept and utilize voluntary help and services from the public. The major objective of the program is to utilize this voluntary help in such a way that is mutually beneficial to the National Park Service and the volunteer.

Volunteers are accepted from the public without regard to race, creed, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability.

 

Current Volunteer Opportunities