NOW HIRING! Bainbridge Metro Parks needs college-age young people for this year’s Summer Trails Crew. Build trails. Learn new skills. Spend your summer outdoors … and get paid!
Bainbridge Island’s public trails network has quietly grown into a defining community asset, immensely popular with residents and visitors alike. Now 42 miles and growing longer each year, this network takes users into the deepest reaches of our beautiful parks, connects public open spaces and even neighborhoods, and offers active, healthy outdoor recreation and sustainable, nonmotorized transportation routes islandwide. The Bainbridge Island Parks Foundation is mission-driven to help maintain and build out this network for long-term community benefit.
The Summer Trails Crew was created in 2015 as a seasonal jobs program for college-age young people, to support trails maintenance. Funding is provided by the Parks Foundation through private donations and grants, with program and field management by our partners, the Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District.
The program has grown in both capacity and capability as it enters this, its seventh year. Early Trails Crews were known primarily for their use of the pruner, the mattock and the spade to keep already-built trails clear from encroaching greenery. Today, with Park District supervision and expertise, Trails Crew members also develop construction skills to build robust boardwalks across lowlands and bogs for safe, year-round trails use and equitable access.
Apply for Summer Trails Crew today: email sean@biparks.org.
