Position Description:

Host Site is:

• Gold Park

Amenities:

• Water: Not Provided
• Sewer: Vault
• Electricity: No
• Satellite: No
  

Anticipated Dates of Employment are:

• May 15th - October 5th

Anticipated Weekly Hours are:

• 15 hrs./ week (hours may be split by a couple).

Assigned Facilities:

• Gold Park CG, 12 sites, 1 vault
  
• Homestake Designated Dispersed Sites

Elevation Range of Facilities:

• 8,300 - 10,000

Overview of the Position:

Our hosts are a guest's first point of contact when they arrive at a facility. They greet the public, assist them with questions, finding a site, or providing guidance about the forest and local area. A Host's goal is to provide excellent, memorable customer service during a guest's use of a facility.

Prior to a guest's arrival, the Host prepares the facility, sites, and amenities for the clean, operable, and safe use. This entails cleaning, landscaping, inspection, and maintenance of the grounds, sites, restrooms, amenities, and additional facilities. A short list of examples of hosts maintenance and landscaping duties may include painting buildings, repairing picnic tables, walking the entire length of the campgrounds assigned as part of the daily inspection, mowing, trimming, clearing brush and weeding.

During a guest's visit, a Host continues cleaning, landscaping, inspection, and maintenance as well as additionally collects fees, fulfills reservations, upholds rules, and sells approved items.

When a guest leaves, the Host promptly attends to the site and makes it ready for the next guest. Additional duties and projects are assigned by managers as needs arise.

Cleaning and maintenance duties will account for at least 50%- 75% of a host's scheduled work hours.

TOOLS USED

Common tools used to complete a Camp Host's duties may include

Cleaning tools: Toilet brush, toilet plunger, scrub brush, paint brush, various cleaning products and chemicals.

Maintenance tools: Ladders, hammers, screw drivers, levels, various wrenches and rachets, various common powered saws and hand saws. Powered drills and screw drivers are also commonly used.

Painting and staining tools: paint brushes, paint rollers, staining brushes, masking tape, drop cloths, scrapers, various paints and varnishes, and chemical paint remover.

Landscaping tools: Various lawn mowers (push mower, rider mower, Zero-turn mower), loppers, shears, powered edger's, hand saws and chainsaws.

Personal Protection Equipment will be provided. Depending on the task, these may include, Non-latex cleaning gloves, leather gloves, eye and/ or face protection, ear protection, aprons, and chaps.

SKILLS / ABILITIES NEEDED TO BE A SUCCESSFUL HOST

Customer Service and Smiling skills

Leadership and Communication skills to effectively influence and educate guests while treating them with kindness and respect.

Problem solving and conflict resolution skills.

Ability to bend over, turn side to side, and kneel to clean toilets, bathrooms, and fire pits.

Ability to safely climb and work on a ladder.

Cash-handling and cash reconciliation skills.

Basic Computer operation skills and experience.

Email and electronic spreadsheet skills and experience.

Driving skills

Time Management skills.

Schedule

The employment schedule in this area is stated below. These are approximate seasonal employment dates. Weather, conditions and closures may affect this schedule as well as final job assignments. The manager will contact hosts with updates to the employment schedule.

Additional Information:

Job Advertisement:

Location: The Gold Park campground has 12 sites located along Homestake Creek in the Homestake Valley in a forested setting. There is one site (#4) dedicated as a host site that has a storage shed. All sites have food lockers. Most sites have ADA tables and fire rings. There is no drinking water, electric or cellular service available.

Holy Cross Wilderness is nearby; all wilderness regulations must be observed when traveling in the wilderness (foot and horse travel only). There are several trailheads into the wilderness within driving distance of the campground and the Homestake Reservoir is about 3 miles further west on Homestake Road.

There area is popular with Jeep 4WD enthusiasts since the Holy Cross Jeep Road is access from the Homestake Road FSR703.

Forest System Road (FSR) 703 and FSR 704 are heavily impacted by dispersed camping. There are approximately 25 sites along these open roads including the old Blodgett area which was a campground prior to 2006. Gold Park Campground is approximately 6 miles west along the Homestake FSR703 Road.

Recently, the WRNF instituted new regulations reducing the stay limit from 14 days to 7 days from May 21 to September 1 annually. Campers along this open road are also required to be self-contained for their solid human waste and pack the waste out or use an approved system such as a camper with a holding tank, composting toilet, or an approved bag system. Lastly, there is a party size limit along this road and other roads in this geographic area of no more than 40 people.

The WRNF plans to enter into an environmental analysis in the next few years to assess the impacts of designating a specific number of dispersed campsites. These campsites could include features such as compacted areas, food lockers, and fire rings. The WRNF would assess hazards in and around the sites as part of the analysis and implementation. Once a decision has been finalized the WRNF will pursue funding options to make the necessary changes to the sites and install the necessary features.

It is intended that once designated and outfitted, the concessionaire would manage these sites for a fee. The fee would be commensurate with the services provided, garbage service at remote locations, security and safety visitation, and fire safety. The site(s) would meet the required Federal Land Recreation Enhancement Acts list of provided features for charging a fee at an expanded amenity site: (at least 5 of the 9) tent or trailer spaces, picnic table, drinking water, access road, collection of the fee by an employee, reasonable visitor protection, refuse container, toilet facilities, simple devise for a campfire. It would be the intention of the WRNF to maintain the self-contained human waste regulation.