04/07/2026
Join the 2026 High Peaks Trail Crew! DEC is hiring a seasonal Trail Builder and two Trail Crew Members out of the DEC Ray Brook Office in the Adirondacks. Some of the job details include:
✅ Learn how to build trails, rigging, and stonework
✅ Increase your knowledge of traditional hand-tool skills in back country settings
✅ Install signs and trail markers, maintain existing trails, construct and relocate privies, improve and install drainage structures, and construct trail bridges
✅ May include crosscut sawing training and chainsaw safety training
✅ Projects require hiking into the back country with a loaded pack in all weather conditions
✅ Positions are anticipated to start in May
✅ $17.35/ hour, 40-hour work week
For more information and to apply, please email [email protected] and include “Trail Crew” in the subject line.