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Contact: Fermin Salas
National Park Service Regional Director Mike Reynolds announced the selection of Amanda McCutcheon as superintendent of Pipe Spring National Monument in Arizona. McCutcheon has almost 20 years of public lands experience and most recently served as the visitor services manager at Bryce Canyon National Park. She will assume her new role on October 10, 2021.
“We are looking forward to having Amanda join the team at Pipe Spring,” said Reynolds. “Her extensive knowledge and leadership in visitor services, environmental outreach and cultural resources are a great fit for the park and will help preserve and share the stories of this unique site for future generations.”
“I’m really excited to work with the staff at Pipe Spring National Monument to continue the great work in preserving an incredibly important heritage site with complex and compelling stories and histories,” said McCutcheon.
Prior to her position as visitor services lead, managing the park’s fee and interpretive programs, McCutcheon joined the team at Bryce Canyon National Park as deputy visitor services manager in 2018. McCutcheon has also worked with the US Fish and Wildlife Service as the visitor service manager of Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska where she worked with Yup’ik villages and fishing communities coordinating special uses, and outreach and education for the refuge.
McCutcheon began her National Park Service career as a seasonal interpretive ranger in 2002 at Mesa Verde National Park. She has served as a seasonal interpretive ranger and fire educator across the country from the Everglades National Park in Florida, Yakima Indian Reservation in Washington, to Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. In 2009, she accepted her first permanent position as an education and outreach specialist at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Skagway, Alaska. During this time she completed her Master of Education with an emphasis in Environmental Education, from Western Washington University. From here, she served as a lead interpreter at Glacier National Park.
McCutcheon was born in Colorado and began her career in environmental education in high school, working with elementary education students as a counselor at an outdoor education school and summer camps. She attended Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and focused her academics on southwest US studies with a BA in Spanish and a minor in Anthropology.
McCutcheon lives with her daughter Keller and partner Ryan, and often hosts her stepson Tannen. Amanda and her family love to go hiking, camping, traveling and skiing and they’re excited to relocate to Kanab, Utah and Fredonia, Arizona area.
Last updated: September 20, 2021