Volunteer Opportunities
Outside or inside, close to home or at your go-to weekend trail destination, we aim to connect you with the volunteer opportunity that is right for you. Tell us how you'd like to be involved!
Grab your work gloves and spend a few hours or a whole day with a crew helping to make a difference in our parks. Or, we can match your group to the right project.
We teach stewardship skills to outdoor-loving people. Our classes range from intro level in basic trail maintenance and invasive species identification to advanced training in trail layout and design, rock work, and more.
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Worktrip
Join the Catskills Trail Crew for some hard work and fun clearing away some blowdowns along the Pine Hill- West Branch Trail!
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Join the Catskills Trail Crew for some hard work and fun clearing away some blowdowns along the Dry Brook Ridge Trail!
Worktrip
Join the Catskills Trail Crew for some hard work and fun clearing away some blowdowns along the Dry Brook Ridge Trail!
Worktrip
Catskills Trail Crew Trail Mud May Worktrip
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Do you enjoy birds, butterflies, and wildflowers? Would you like to help protect them? Come help us remove invasive plants from this beautiful park!
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Worktrip
Come help us care for the native plant landscape at the Trail Conference headquarters! Sign up here.
Workshop
Would you like to take your invasive species identification skills to the next level? Do you want to help find the next problem invaders that threaten our region's natural areas and parks? Take this workshop to learn how!
Workshop
Would you like to help protect our environment while you hike? Have you already taken Part 1 of our Invasives Strike Force (ISF) Survey Workshop webinars? Then you are ready to take this required workshop webinar to learn about the field survey protocols and data reporting associated with our ISF Survey program. Once completed with this part of your training, you will officially be ready to take on an assignment and become an official ISF surveyor!
Workshop
Are you an Invasives Strike Force Surveyor who would like to hone your ID skills in the field? Interested in getting some extra help with our survey protocols and procedures? Come join us for a guided walk that focuses on this year's invasive species survey list.
Workshop
Share your love of trails with us on National Trails Day®
Workshop
How are you looking to adventure this summer? Is destination car camping a bucket list item but you are unsure where to start with planning and preparing?
Workshop
Are you an Invasives Strike Force Surveyor who would like to hone your ID skills in the field? Interested in getting some extra help with our survey protocols and procedures? Come join us for a guided walk that focuses on this year's invasive species survey list.
Our Volunteers Rock
COVID-19 Volunteer Protocols
As caretakers of the region’s trails and natural areas, the Trail Conference puts the safety of our service members, staff, and trail users first and foremost.
Questions?
Find answers to the most frequently asked questions about volunteering with the Trail Conference.
Building, Maintaining, and Protecting Trails
The Trail Conference is supported by more than 1,700 volunteers who annually donate over 93,000 hours of time to keep trails open, safe, and enjoyable for the public.
Our volunteers are hard at work in the field...
- Building new trails and rehabilitating old ones
- Keeping trails accessible for fellow users
- Monitoring and removing invasive species
... and off-trail
- Protecting trail lands through advocacy, conservation, and stewardship efforts
- Using their professional skills to help support our mission
Outside or inside, close to home or at your go-to weekend trail destination, we aim to connect you with the volunteer opportunity that is right for you. Tell us how you'd like to be involved!
Adopt A Trail
There's trail out there that needs you! Volunteers who "adopt" a trail do the on-the-ground work to ensure it remains open and safe for fellow users.
Get Out With Us
We're a community of volunteers who build and maintain hiking trails. Grab your workgloves and spent a day on a trail crew. Or, we can match your group to the right trail project.
Trail U
We build trails and teach on-trails skill to our volunteers. Our classes range from Intro level in basic trail maintenance to advanced training in trail layout & design, rock work, and more. Workshops are usually held in the field on real trail projects.
Workshops