Volunteer Opportunities
Garrett Trails has several volunteer positions available and a range of volunteer opportunities throughout the year.
Trail Maintenance Support - We’re looking for a few people to assist our Maintenance Chair, Evan Byrne, with maintenance and clean-up days on trails. If you love to be outside, organize people, and quickly see the results of your work, this would be a great position for you! Trail Maintenance Volunteers are integral to the trail systems and are truly appreciated.
Geocaching Hike Days - There are so many great places on our trails to do Geocacheing—for the uninitiated, think of this as a big, ongoing scavenger or treasure hunt using GPS coordinates. If you take on this project and you’ll hike or bike new trails to find the perfect place to put that cache (the treasure), organize what is in the ‘cache’, and make sure it is listed on the online geocache sites. This could probably single handling triple the number of visitors on our trails and besides it is fun!
Hiking/Walking Coordinator(s) - Our hiking or walking coordinators will organize 2 or 3 walks a year. This means you’ll decide where you want to hike, if you want to coordinate with a naturalist or birder, and what day to go. Think of it this way, it is a great excuse to go for a walk in the woods and have other folks along for company; it is also a great way to meet new people! You can make the hike as easy or hard, long or short as you want. These are one of the opportunities we’ll offer our Friends of Garrett Trails and it will definitely show people new areas of the county.
Mountain Biking Coordinator(s) - Our mountain biking coordinator(s) sets-up ride routes. You decide when and where. You decide how hard or long. Think of it this way, it is a great excuse to go for a ride in the woods and have other folks along for company; it is also a great way to meet new people! These are one of the opportunities we’ll offer our Friends of Garrett Trails and it will definitely show people new areas of the county.
Road Biking Coordinator(s) - Our road biking coordinator(s) sets-up ride routes. You decide when and where. You decide how hard or long. Think of it this way, it is a great excuse to go for a ride and have other folks along for company; it is also a great way to meet new people! These are one of the opportunities we’ll offer our Friends of Garrett Trails and it will definitely show people new areas of the county.
Volunteer Opportunities
Don’t want to commit to organizing but want to participate! Let us know if you’re interested in:
Trail Maintenance Support - We’re looking for a few people to assist our Maintenance Chair, Evan Byrne, with maintenance and clean-up days on trails. If you love to be outside, organize people, and quickly see the results of your work, this would be a great position for you! Trail Maintenance Volunteers are integral to the trail systems and are truly appreciated.
- work with the Maintenance Chair, Garrett Trails Executive Director and DNR land managers and/or mayors to determine necessary work,
- review the work that needs to be done,
- assist in organizing or gathering supplies,
- set work day,
- help recruit volunteers for the day, and
- act as crew leader on the work day.
Geocaching Hike Days - There are so many great places on our trails to do Geocacheing—for the uninitiated, think of this as a big, ongoing scavenger or treasure hunt using GPS coordinates. If you take on this project and you’ll hike or bike new trails to find the perfect place to put that cache (the treasure), organize what is in the ‘cache’, and make sure it is listed on the online geocache sites. This could probably single handling triple the number of visitors on our trails and besides it is fun!
Hiking/Walking Coordinator(s) - Our hiking or walking coordinators will organize 2 or 3 walks a year. This means you’ll decide where you want to hike, if you want to coordinate with a naturalist or birder, and what day to go. Think of it this way, it is a great excuse to go for a walk in the woods and have other folks along for company; it is also a great way to meet new people! You can make the hike as easy or hard, long or short as you want. These are one of the opportunities we’ll offer our Friends of Garrett Trails and it will definitely show people new areas of the county.
Mountain Biking Coordinator(s) - Our mountain biking coordinator(s) sets-up ride routes. You decide when and where. You decide how hard or long. Think of it this way, it is a great excuse to go for a ride in the woods and have other folks along for company; it is also a great way to meet new people! These are one of the opportunities we’ll offer our Friends of Garrett Trails and it will definitely show people new areas of the county.
Road Biking Coordinator(s) - Our road biking coordinator(s) sets-up ride routes. You decide when and where. You decide how hard or long. Think of it this way, it is a great excuse to go for a ride and have other folks along for company; it is also a great way to meet new people! These are one of the opportunities we’ll offer our Friends of Garrett Trails and it will definitely show people new areas of the county.
Volunteer Opportunities
Don’t want to commit to organizing but want to participate! Let us know if you’re interested in:
- Maintenance and clean-up days;
- Volunteering at events such as the Taste of Garrett Trails;
- Participating in a hike, a walk, a mountain bike or road bike ride;
- Helping with the annual Garrett County Gran Fondo Cycling event in June.
