Calendar

Interested in learning to work with birds of prey?  Join Roan Mountain State Park for a series of volunteer workdays with Park Ranger Phil Hylen and our park owls: Shiloh and Sunshine.  Volunteers will help the park to clean owl cages, complete mi...

The park's native flower beds and English garden are looking great!  To stay looking good, we need your help.  We are looking for volunteers to help maintain our beautiful gardens.  Work will include cutting back last year's growth, trimming plant...

Farmstead Fridays March – October 9am – noon Join Museum Program Assistant Amanda Morgan to help us ready & maintain the Miller Farmstead for the 2022 season. No experience is necessary, but volunteers who are experienced with facilities maintena...

Volunteers will help park staff fix the Group Camp flowerbed, remove last year's growth from the triangular bed at the museum, and trail maintenance. Please meet at the Museum to sign in and get your job roles. Please bring water, snacks, gloves, an...

Weed Wrangle: is a statewide volunteer event in conjunction with the Garden Club of America that focuses efforts on invasive plant removals or native plant restoration. Volunteers learn, practice, and begin a habit of maintaining an area free of ...

Bad News: Garlic Mustard plants choke out native wildflowers and kill rare butterflies. Good News: Garlic Mustard is easy to control without using any special tools or toxic herbicides, if we start early in the season. YOU can help us control this na...

Volunteer to help Park Ranger Regina Lowry remove several invasive plant and tree species from the Camp Hazlewood wildflower trail on March 5th at 8:00 AM. We will be removing species such as: Private, Sumac, Autumn Olive, Johnson grass, and Lespedez...

Come out to Cummins Falls on March 5th 2022 to help remove various types of invasive plants we have growing throughout the park. Liability waivers will be offered at the park. 

Farmstead Fridays March – October 9am – noon Join Museum Program Assistant Amanda Morgan to help us ready & maintain the Miller Farmstead for the 2022 season. No experience is necessary, but volunteers who are experienced with facilities maintena...

Interested in learning to work with birds of prey?  Join Roan Mountain State Park for a series of volunteer workdays with Park Ranger Phil Hylen and our park owls: Shiloh and Sunshine.  Volunteers will help the park to clean owl cages, complete mi...

Come out and put your stamp on Indian Mountain by helping us keep the park as beautiful as possible and in turn help keep America beautiful! You must have a volunteer wavier to participant in the event. One can be downloaded from here and brought to ...

Come out and join us for a weed wrangle on top of the 2000 year old mounds! We will be pruning many of the trees that grow on the walls. This is a fantastic service hour opportunity for teens, students, and adults! Please fill out the attached volunt...

Join us to help give our native wildflower beds a Spring makeover! Pack water, gloves, and sun protection! If you have gardening tools, feel free to bring them. We will meet at the Frozen Head Visitor Center. 

Join us for our 2nd Saturday Volunteer Day where you will work with Natchez Trace Rangers to improve your favorite state park! Projects will be led by each of Natchez Trace's Rangers and will vary each month. Participants should dress for the weather...

Stop by the Visitor Center to pickup gloves, a bucket and litter grabber. The ranger will let you know which park areas need attention. This act of service preserves the park for visitors, protects wildlife and our water quality. 

Looking for experience in natural resources management? Excited to learn about a career as a Park Ranger? Then join Rock Island State Park for some early spring invasive species management, flora-fauna surveys, and other tasks that keep our park heal...

Fishing line recycling containers have been installed at each boat dock. The monofilament is collected from recycling bins and cleaned of hooks, leaders, weights, and trash. It is then shipped to the Berkley Pure Fishing company in Iowa. Berkley me...

It takes only one person to make a mess, but a group to clean it up. The Great America Cleanup is a nation wide event which removes litter, encourages recycling, and beauitifies public spaces. Fort Loudoun will be doing our part by picking up litter ...

Our North Rim Trail has several Mountain Laurel and/or Rhododendron thickets that need regular trimming. We hope to give the trail a good trim!Equipment used will mostly consist of pulaskis, rakes, loppers, and hand saws. Any power equipment will be ...

Our Reading Ranger Story Trail panels are beloved by our youngest visitors. To help them last for many more seasons volunteers wash them and report any damage from falling branches or overzealous readers. Meet at the Visitor Center to collect suppl...

The park's native flower beds and English garden are looking great!  To stay looking good, we need your help.  We are looking for volunteers to help maintain our beautiful gardens.  Work will include cutting back last year's growth, trimming plant...

As part of a long term trail building project, this work day will mainly focus on erosion mitigation on existing trail.  This will also be an opportunity to check out the new trail that has been constructed over the past year. All tools will be prov...

Farmstead Fridays March – October 9am – noon Join Museum Program Assistant Amanda Morgan to help us ready & maintain the Miller Farmstead for the 2022 season. No experience is necessary, but volunteers who are experienced with facilities maintena...

Interested in learning to work with birds of prey?  Join Roan Mountain State Park for a series of volunteer workdays with Park Ranger Phil Hylen and our park owls: Shiloh and Sunshine.  Volunteers will help the park to clean owl cages, complete mi...

Dunbar Cave State Park is currently in the middle of a large trail building project.  We are creating an entirely new loop trail that will allow visitors to interact with some of the unique cultural resources that Dunbar Cave protects.  This trail ...

Join Park Ranger Phil Hylen at the Roan Mountain State Park Headquarters on Saturday, March 19th from 10AM-Noon for a workshop on inspecting Bluebird nesting boxes and recording nesting data on the Cornell Lab website.  While this training is open ...

Join us at Tims Ford State Park to plant some trees for TN Tree Day!  We will have a handful of native tree species to plant and will be planting in a variety of different places.  Dress for the weather and work!  Bring a snack and drink.  We hop...

Interested in learning to work with birds of prey?  Join Roan Mountain State Park for a series of volunteer workdays with Park Ranger Phil Hylen and our park owls: Shiloh and Sunshine.  Volunteers will help the park to clean owl cages, complete mi...

Farmstead Fridays March – October 9am – noon Join Museum Program Assistant Amanda Morgan to help us ready & maintain the Miller Farmstead for the 2022 season. No experience is necessary, but volunteers who are experienced with facilities maintena...

Come out and help out our major renovation project at the historic Grundy Lakes Coke Ovens! A major cleanup project has begun to improve the quality of the historic Grundy Lakes Coke Ovens. Several trees have been cleared as the beginning phase of th...

Dunbar Cave State Park is currently in the middle of a large trail building project.  We are creating an entirely new loop trail that will allow visitors to interact with some of the unique cultural resources that Dunbar Cave protects.  This trail ...

In support of Sumner County Health Council's community-wide cleanup day we will host volunteers for a litter pickup along the shoreline. Please meet at the Visitor Center to collect your supplies and receive instructions. Wear appropriate footwear, d...

Come out and help out our major renovation project at the historic Grundy Lakes Coke Ovens! A major cleanup project has begun to improve the quality of the historic Grundy Lakes Coke Ovens. Several trees have been cleared as the beginning phase of th...

Interested in learning to work with birds of prey?  Join Roan Mountain State Park for a series of volunteer workdays with Park Ranger Phil Hylen and our park owls: Shiloh and Sunshine.  Volunteers will help the park to clean owl cages, complete mi...