Volunteer Options
Garrett Trails has several volunteer positions available and a range of volunteer opportunities throughout the year.
Volunteer Positions
Trail Maintenance Coordinator(s)
We’re looking for a few people who can coordinate 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 Coordinators would be responsible for organizing one or more work (maintenance or clean up)
days on trails in the County. Coordinators would
- work with the Garrett Trails Coordinator 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 supervisor on the work day.
This would be a terrific project to take on as a club or service organization. It would also be great experience for someone interested in learning how to construct sustainable trails.
Friends of Garrett Trails Membership Coordinator
Are you computer literate? Do you like seeing information properly organized? This volunteer position would
be responsible for:
- checking our Friends of Garrett Trails mailbox,
- depositing checks and
- entering new ‘members’ into our online database.
Friends of Garrett Trails is our means of gathering new volunteers and supporters. Through the Friends program we will organize hiking and biking days, raise funds, and develop a large network of people who care about trails in Garrett County. Help us succeed. In this position, you’ll be at the center of a terrific group of caring people!
Enewsletter editor
Do you like to write? Is “getting the word out” your calling? Our enewsletter editor will organize (either writing
or recruiting others to write) a short newsletter once a quarter. The newsletter goes out electronically, hence
the ‘e-news’. The editor will
- Work with Garrett Trails Coordinator or Board Chair to identify topics for the enewsletter,
- Seek authors from among our committee members or write short stories herself,
- Input news articles into our online contact program using existing templates or creating her own templates, and
- Will generally ensure that a newsletter is prepared to go out 4 times a year.
This volunteer position can be as creative as you want. You can learn more about e-newsletters, practice writing, gain insight into trails in the county, and help us communicate about our amazing natural resources.
GEOCacher Coordinator
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. We’ll provide a little funding for
drinks for 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.
Mountain Biking Coordinator(s)
Our mountain biking coordinator(s) will organize 1 to 3 rides a year. 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! We can help provide shuttle if you want to do a long ride!
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) will organize 1 to 3 rides a year. 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! We can help provide shuttle if you want to do a long ride! 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.
Garrett Trails Safety “Officer(s)”
[still in discussions with dnr]
Volunteer Opportunities
Don’t want to commit to organizing but want to participate! Let us know if you’re interested in:
- Maintenance and Construction Work Days
- Volunteering at Events
- Participating in a hike, a walk, a mountain bike or road bike ride
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