Volunteer

Our park accepts new volunteers during January-February and July-August. During these special enrollment periods, you may complete an application, learn about available opportunities, and get started helping with nature interpretation, conservation, visitor services, special events, maintenance, and more. Background checks are required and part of the onboarding appointment.

Between recruitment windows, registration is closed while we train and support our current volunteers.

Don’t miss your chance to get involved, watch for our next open enrollment period and become part of the team that helps keep our park welcoming, beautiful, and thriving.

With every standard, there are exceptions…if you are up for the dirty job of landscaping on your own schedule and/or have a specific skill set, such as a certified Master Naturalist, please contact the park directly to discuss. Scouts and college students are welcome to reach out via phone or email. We’ll do what we can to accommodate those with mandated volunteer service hours.

Carla can be reached at 479-789-5009 or carla.berg@arkansas.gov. She’s part-time with Hobbs State Park, however will get back to you as soon as possible!

Volunteer with us. Make an impact outdoors for your community!

We invite volunteers to help out with table top programs and craft tables. The table top programs and crafts can be something borrowed from the park or something you have created. The best times to have a table top program or craft are on the weekends between 10 am and noon, or noon until 2 pm. Times and topics are flexible and open to volunteers on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have time and want to come out and represent the park as a volunteer at the visitor center for a few hours, contact us today!

Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area has over 50 miles of trails and relies heavily on our volunteers to help maintain the trail system. To adopt a trail, we ask that you sign a one-year agreement to walk your section to report downed trees and remove trip hazards such as rocks and limbs on the trail. We also ask that you check-out tools to clip away small tree limbs that protrude into the pathway, clear trail tread drains to facilitate effective water runoff, weed eat or sling blade trail corridor as needed, repair flooded areas, etc.

Mainly during the Fall and Spring months, two to four times per week on Tuesdays through Fridays, we’ll have school buses of children at the park. The groups can be up to four classes a day, so we divide them into smaller groups, usually one class per station. These smaller groups will rotate “stations” that are led by Park Interpreters and Volunteers. The topics vary, however are related to local nature and history. Volunteers can expect to be here around 9 am through lunch (bring your own), and depart around 1 pm. The park has topic outlines by age group and presentations are built based on these outlines. We encourage volunteers to customize the presentation to their own skill set and experiences, while keeping to the main topic. Presentations should always be purposeful, organized, engaging/enjoyable, thematic and relevant.

Meet our Volunteer Coordinator

Carla Berg

Carla

Stay Connected

Volunteers can stay connected and log events via the Volgistics login or on the app! New volunteers can create an account using the instructions below.

Download the App