Protect precious plant and wildlife resources within Grand Canyon National Park
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Join us May 6-9, 2025 at the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
Grand Canyon National Park is home to a diverse community of native plants and animals that rely on rare water sources sprinkled across this vast and arid landscape. The park shares a southeastern boundary with Kaibab National Forest, where a once-sturdy fence no longer keeps livestock (wild horses and cattle) out of park lands. Looking for water, these animals find weaknesses in the fence, cross into the park, and damage water sources that are essential to the Grand Canyon’s native plants and wildlife.
On this trip, we will walk along the fence, repairing and re-stranding it as needed. This will involve hiking across uneven but fairly flat terrain for 5-6 miles a day. Come ready to learn about fence-pliers, fence-stretchers, and barbed-wire spools, and don’t worry if you’ve never heard of any of these things. Your reward? You’ll get to enjoy and protect a unique corner of one of the world’s greatest national parks!
Location Arizona
Contact Volunteer Program
Open to Everyone
Topics Grazing Reform, Habitat Restoration, Springs
Who can sign up?
Many of our trips are family friendly! Please see our FAQs for more information or email us with questions about particular trips.
Membership is optional, but we ask that participants who are comfortable financially become members of the Grand Canyon Trust with a $25 donation. Members receive a subscription to our biannual print magazine, The Advocate. Please contact us if you have any questions. You’ll also need to submit your volunteer application form to secure your spot on the trip.
Note: Due to uncertainties and staffing interruptions in federal agencies, we cannot guarantee that all of our projects will move forward as scheduled. As we learn more, we’ll keep you updated. Thanks for your understanding and patience.
What to expect
We’ll fuel up with coffee and breakfast in the mornings, drive to our work sites, and spend our days rebuilding fences and protecting wetlands.
We’ll return to camp in the evenings for free time, appetizers, dinner, and stargazing. We’ll hear from a Grand Canyon National Park partner and Trust staff about conservation work and ways to stay involved after the trip.
On the last day, we’ll break camp, pack up, and head home.
Accommodations
We will be based at Mather Campground at the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park. We will have flush toilets, access to showers, and a camp kitchen. Park entrance fees will be waived. More information will follow in our pre-trip emails.
The Trust provides: All meals, water, snacks, field equipment, tools, and training.
Participants provide: Personal transportation to Grand Canyon National Park, individual camping gear, coffee mug, lunch container, work clothes, work gloves, wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, rain gear, and clothes for warm days and cold nights. Please come prepared.
How to sign up:
- Select “SIGN UP,” and follow the prompts.
- Check your email for further instructions.
- Send in your volunteer application form for the year.
- Become a member of the Grand Canyon Trust.
- A Trust trip leader will confirm your spot.
Questions? Email volunteernow@grandcanyontrust.org
Trip packing list
Our gear list will help you prepare. We can loan some items on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact us for details.
Volunteer FAQs
Curious about logistics, the food you'll eat during the trip, or the difficulty of the field work? Check out the frequently asked questions.
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Public health considerations on volunteer trips
Our top priority is the safety and comfort of our trip participants. Precautionary measures that will be followed on trips to avoid the spread of communicable diseases will be communicated in pre-trip emails. If we feel that a trip cannot be safely conducted due to public health conditions, or for any other reason, we will cancel the trip with as much notice as possible. Volunteers or participants may reach out to volunteernow@grandcanyontrust.org with any questions.
The Grand Canyon Trust is committed to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion at every level of our work. The conservation field and the Colorado Plateau have their own histories of racial injustice and exclusion and as a largely white organization, we know we have work to do. We are actively working to make the conservation field and the Colorado Plateau more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Read the Grand Canyon Trust’s justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion statement
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