National Park Jobs
Stories of Former Park Employees

Want to apply for National Park jobs but don't know where to begin? Read user submitted National Park service jobs stories -- or submit your own!

Landing a National Park summer job is an opportunity of a lifetime.

It doesn't matter if you're 18 or 81, people from all walks of life seek National Park summer jobs.

The hardest part is overcoming your fear of the unknown--but that's why this page exists!

Plenty of websites are devoted to helping you find a National Park summer job--but there isn't a single website that has as many stories from former National Park employees.

Share your memories!

• What influenced you to apply?
  
• What was your summer like?
  
• Did you fall in love while working in a National Park?
  
• Where did you work?
  
• What did you spend your days and nights doing?
  
• What's your favorite memory?

Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...

Working in Many Glacier Hotel from 93-96 
Working as a bartender in Many Glacier Hotel from 1993-1996 were some of the best summers ever.

Some of my favorite memories include:

The hundreds ...

Many Glacier Hotel Job in the Summer 1979 
I went from Alabama to Many Glacier Hotel as the security guard after graduating school.

I was homesick and it was one of the best things I ever did....

Glorified Walking - Working in Glacier National Park , MT 
I was 17 when i started working in Glacier National Park. I had grown up in the mid-west and had no idea what i was getting into.

I had no college ...

Working at Grand Canyon North Rim and Yellowstone National Park 
I'm an old lady now, but was fortunate enough to work at both Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon's North Rim--and what an experience that was!...

Working at Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park 
I worked in the Many Glacier Hotel gift shop in the summer of 1973, at age 19. To this day it is the most amazing summer I've ever experienced.

I'...

National Park Jobs - What a crazy four year adventure  
So after crossing the country with a friend and going through Glacier National Park and speaking with some employees, we decide next summer that's where ...

My Best Summer was Working in Glacier National Park 
Glacier National Park was a wonderful summer job!

It is the most beautiful place I have ever been. I met a lot of really great people and had a blast ...

Working at The Rising Sun - 1988 
I actually saw the job posting on a college bulletin board in the spring of 1988 and thought it sounded like a great adventure.

I was finishing my ...

Music on the Mountain 
I worked at Many Glacier Hotel for Rocky Mountain Outfitters in the summers of 66 & 67.

Of all my memories, the best was an evening I had to go look ...

The best summer of my life - Working in Glacier National Park 
In December of 1968, I was a student at the University of Montana at Missoula. I read in the student newspaper that someone from Glacier National Park ...

Working in Many Glacier Hotel, Glacier National Park - Best Summer Ever  Not rated yet
The summer I spent working in Glacier National Park's Many Glacier Hotel was the best summer of my life.

I came from a little state in the heart of ...

Yellowstone National Park Jobs - Southern Belle goes West   Not rated yet
After my freshman year at Meridian, Ms. Community college in 1965, I got a job in the cafeteria as a server at Lake Lodge in Yellowstone National Park....

Glacier National Park - Where I grew up 1960 - 1969  Not rated yet
My father, being a poor school teacher, looked at some sort of summer work to supplement the feeding of a family of 5.

A fellow teacher suggested the ...

Finding myself while working in Glacier National Park for a summer  Not rated yet
It was after my fourth year in college that I decided I needed a change of scenery. I spent 22 years of my life living on the flat land in the midwest ...

Zion National Park Summer Jobs  Not rated yet
Working in Zion National Park for a summer job was wonderful and a great experience for someone from Michigan that had never been to a national park before....

Best Summer Ever: Yosemite National Park Job - '81  Not rated yet
In the fall semester of '80, my roomie and I were at a keg party. We found out that night that two of our suite-mates were seriously considering going ...

Working Many Glacier Hotel During the Summer of 2008  Not rated yet
In the summer of 2008 I had the opportunity to work in Glacier National Park at the Many Glacier Hotel. I applied with A Christian Ministry in the National ...

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