Enjoy easy living as a camp host in Clackamas County, May – September

Metzler Park is a beautiful place to be on a warm fall day. The sound of water rippling along boulders and pebbles creates a calm ease amid the first of fallen leaves drifting lightly to the green earthen floor. The campsite is quiet with a few RVs onsite, a couple walking their dogs, maintenance crews attending to tasks, but the thing most alive is the creek. 

Leanne is all smiles as she sips her coffee in llama slippers and a fuzzy robe while doing chores in the morning before needing to greet new campers later in the afternoon. 

She gushes about the gorgeous area and how she wants to come back after another Arizona winter. She enjoys the contrast of warm dry Arizona in the winter and cool, green Oregon in the summer. 

Chatting with people on gentle, breezy days about paying for an extra car, delivering ice and fire wood or informing people about fire bans, directing people to the many amenities for new campers, or hearing stories from return visitors are the main afternoon activities. 

Leanne travels to be a camp host because she gets to live in a quiet, gorgeous area where it’s easy to relax and kick back. The easy pace allows for slow mornings to forage for blackberries and elderberry to make jam or gather dandelion greens for her bunny to snack on.  She shared treasured memories like enjoying live music, dot painting rocks with youth, hanging out by the swimming holes. The attentive, kind staff and the relationships she’s built allows her job to be fun and easy and is what keeps her coming back to Clackamas County parks each spring. 

Does this sound like your dream job, too? Get your application in today! Discover what Clackamas County parks have to offer.