Parks and People: A Great Combination
Did you know every state has at least one national park in it and that there are 401 total national parks in America? July is National Parks and Recreation Month and is a great time to visit a park and volunteer in one. I’ve written about volunteer vacations before and some of the best are in parks across the country. Join the American Hiking Society for a week of building and maintaining trails with five to 14 other people in exciting and diverse locations like Idaho, Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. Crew requests for 2014 open this month. Sierra Club Outings does service through its group and chapters as well as through volunteer vacations. With 65 chapters and more than 400 groups nationwide each contributing to local service projects, Group and Chapter Outings give an incalculable number of volunteer hours to parks and public lands. Many groups and chapters devote special trips solely to service projects. Through the roughly 90 serv...