I work at a campground! come bother me!

www.Sea-Pirate.com

 

wow, that looks really nice! I'd love to go if it wasn't so far from us. Maybe if life ever takes me that way.

 

wow,, with them rates a person could file banruptcy before they spent a week there...

38 bucks for a tent site??? ill stick with the national forest thank you very much..

 

I don't make the rules... I just let them pay me

 

that it would be tons of fun to work in a campground...anyone have any info about working in Canadian campgrounds? Can you do this all year or is it only seasonal work?

 

I worked as a campground host at a back pack campground in a Nat'l Forest for 5 years.
Since my duties included hauling out trash and the occasional injured hiker, I could drive-in via the gated fire road. A beautiful wooded flat next to a stream with wild trout. Each of the 12 sites had a table, rock ring or stove, some had both. Water came from a nearby spring.
It was a cool gig. Most backpackers are cool. I'd give out hiking/wilderness advice, lead nature hikes, give trail updates and tell scary ghost stories around the campfire at night.
Yeah, we'd get the occasional poacher, and obnoxious drunk. The worst was some high-school r.o.t.c. group who immediently upon arrival started hacking up trees and having rock fights.
Once a guy I was talking to around a campfire told me he had a pot patch not too far away, and bragged about having it booby-trapped.
I'm as pro-pot a guy as you'll ever want to meet; I've been growing it for decades and had a patch nearby myself.
But I am so anti-booby traps.
So I kept an eye on him and noticed which direction he went off in the morning and how long it took for him to return to camp.
After that it was a simple task to find it. I went out with a fellow ranger and we carefully entered the garden. We dismantled a fishing line with fish-hooks hung across the path at eye-level and uncovered then filled in a hole that was concealed with twigs and branches, and discovered a steel-jawed trap.
We also saw the area littered with trash and empty cans of toxic pesticides. We hacked down all the plants and left them there, then hauled out all the trash and traps.
We don't want people like that in the Nat'l Forest and neither do you.
I once had to help calm then go get help for a 10-year old girl who was hiking with her family and went into the bushes to pee and got 3 fish hooks embedded in her scalp.

P.S. The campground was free, which was commiserate with my salary (I was an unpaid volunteer). But I got to wear a uniform and a badge!

 

I think it would be pretty cool to find work in a campground....does anyone know how to go about finding out about camp jobs? Mainly in Canada I am thinking for now...can you also do this with kids?

 

I don't know but I did a search and found this site that lists over 4,000 camp sites in Canada(I couldn't find any for employment specifically)...you may try calling some of them and just asking if they're hiring any workers for the summer...you never know

http://www.campsource.com/

 

I worked at Jellystone park in 1997 for about 4 1/2 months...until my youngest child was born.
It was great, I loved it.

 

Camping at the Jersey Shore rules

Ocean swimming and camping are the greatest combo.

 

That's an amazing story rangerdanger. As a fellow grower, you're story of booby trapping amazed me. Hard to believe someone could be so stupid to first brag about growing and secondly booby trap it from humans obviously. Growing pot is one thing, injuring another is a whole 'nother can of worms. Idiocy. You did the right thing.

 

Seriously, that's outrageous. That's not even the electric hook-up sites! That place is a total rip off.

The way I see it, if I want to sleep around hundreds of other people, with lots of noise, running water, electicity, and plumbing, I'll go out in my back yard and do it for free.

 

If you think that $38.00 is a rip-off, you should check into some of the motels and road houses at The Shore. Sea Pirate is a bargain and you sleep in your own bedding.

Hey good times are expensive. What do concerts go for?
The Jersey Shore is quite a scene. The swimming cant be beat that is the ocean and also freshwater creeks for swimming and canoeing.
Fishing Crabbing and The Boardwalk.
Crank up your copy of The Who's Quadrophenia, get behing the wheel and go !

 

A motel is one thing. But camping should never be that expensive. It's just wrong.

Anyways, I didn't really like the Jersey shore. Only been there once, so to be fair, I'm not all that experienced. But all the forests looked very sick as far as camping goes, and the beach was full of yuppies and rich pricks. I didn't like the vibes I was getting. Had fun, but won't likely return, it's not my scene.

 

I agree 100%!!! I grew up in Linwood, N.J. It's between OC and AC along Rt.9. It's a small town. I miss the Pine Barrens and the quarry parties I used to go to all the time out in Egg Harbor Township (The Blue Hole). South Jersey was a great place to grow up......

 

thats so awesome that you grew up in linwood! one of my best friends lives there & I'm up near little egg harbor. Most excellent.

 

campground employment in canada is mostly seasonal. they hire mostly students May- Sept. not sure if the pay would support rent.---great for those still at home.
fulltime employment is difficult to come by---try private camps...lodges like fishing and hunting camps. Provincial and National would be seasonal only.
bronte

 

this doesnt even count as camping......


i'll take trails, thank you very much. i go camping to get AWAY from people, not so i can be surrounded by a bunch of drunk rowdy assholes with winnebagos....