Volunteer Opportunities

VOLUNTEER IN PARKS

Volunteering in Montgomery Parks is such a natural thing to do!

We love the folks in our community who get involved—and we think you’ll love volunteering with us too. Check out some of our Spring opportunities below, and go to ParksVolunteers.org to see all of our most up-to-date postings! Be on the lookout for special volunteer events for Earth Month!

Notice: All volunteers must show proof of being fully vaccinated. Changing COVID-19 guidelines may affect certain volunteer opportunities.

✸ Help keep our parks clean, accessible and non-native invasive plant free at one of these workdays! Park Cleanups, Trail Workdays,

Weed Warrior Workdays LONG TERM ✸ Kingsley School House Docents, Little Bennett

Assist our “schoolmaster” showing what learning was like in the past at our historic Schoolhouse

✸ Crop Production Volunteers

Help us this spring with growing food crops at

Pope Farm Nursery to address food insecurities in Montgomery County!

✸ Nature Center Hosts

Welcome visitors to our Nature Centers with a smile and information that will help them enjoy our trails, facilities and programs.

✸ Nature Center Gardeners

Spring is coming and our native gardens are waking up! Gardeners help keep them attractive and appealing to park visitors and pollinators alike. ✸ Oakley Cabin Docents, Brookeville

Give tours of our cabin that was home to free African Americans from Emancipation to the 20th century

✸ Stream Striders, Watershed Cleanup Leaders –

Spring Training

Teach groups about why it is important to keep our parks and streams litter free

✸ Instructional Ice Skating Aides, Cabin John and Wheaton Ice Arenas

Assist instructors and be an extra pair of hands for group lessons – skating experience required