Campground jobs across Canada

Every province and territory does it differently

British Columbia has recreation sites and private park operators. Other provinces and territories use different systems: forestry recreation partnerships in Alberta, regional parks in Saskatchewan, conservation authorities and township backcountry systems in Ontario, ZECs and regional parks in Quebec, independently operated parks in New Brunswick, community campgrounds in the North. The organization that hires is often not the government that owns the campground, so this guide lists the operators and employers for each one.

Four kinds of campground work

• Paid jobs: wages from a park agency, operating company, municipality or First Nation. Some include a campsite or staff housing.
• Volunteer hosts: unpaid hosting, usually with a free campsite, for a set number of hours a week.
• Contract work: you work as an independent contractor, for example paid by a share of camping fees. Ask for the written contract.
• Operating contracts: businesses bid to run a campground for several years. These are for companies, not individual job seekers.

Provinces

• British Columbia

  British Columbia has paid park jobs, volunteer host placements and contractor arrangements at provincial parks, Recreation Sites and Trails BC sites, private forest-land campgrounds, regional parks and First Nation campgrounds. Most BC Parks campgrounds are run by private park operating companies that do their own hiring, so the name on the park sign is often not the employer.

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• Alberta

  Alberta has paid campground jobs with private companies that run provincial campgrounds, Alberta Parks seasonal jobs, a volunteer host program, and forestry and municipal campgrounds. Many provincial campgrounds are run by private operators under Facility Operating Agreements, while forestry companies and counties or municipal districts run others.

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• Saskatchewan

  Saskatchewan campground work is mostly paid seasonal jobs with Sask Parks, with locally run regional parks, and with a few private operators and Prince Albert National Park. Regional park authorities hire their own staff, often for combined campground, grounds, golf, pool and concession work.

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• Manitoba

  Most campground work in Manitoba is with Manitoba Parks (paid attendants and maintenance, plus a volunteer host program), with town and municipal campgrounds, and with a smaller number of private and Indigenous-owned campgrounds. Riding Mountain National Park also runs a volunteer host program.

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• Ontario

  Ontario campground work is spread across Ontario Parks, the St. Lawrence Parks Commission, many conservation authorities, township backcountry systems, municipal and First Nation campgrounds, and Parks Canada. Most jobs are paid seasonal roles such as gate attendant or maintenance; volunteer hosting is limited, with Pukaskwa National Park the verified example.

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• Quebec

  Quebec campground work is spread across Sépaq parks and wildlife reserves, ZECs run by local nonprofit managers, regional parks run by corporations, cooperatives and MRC partners, Indigenous managers, municipalities and Parks Canada. Most jobs are paid seasonal roles such as reception, maintenance and site management, usually advertised in French.

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• New Brunswick

  New Brunswick campground work is mostly paid seasonal jobs in NB Parks provincial parks and Parks Canada's Fundy and Kouchibouguac national parks. Some provincial parks are run independently by local operators such as BGC Grand Manan, and community groups like the Saint John Horticultural Association run other campgrounds.

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• Nova Scotia

  Nova Scotia has paid jobs at 20 provincial camping parks and two national parks, volunteer campground host programmes run by the province and by Parks Canada at Kejimkujik, and seasonal jobs at private, community and association campgrounds. Campgrounds are run by the Department of Natural Resources, Parks Canada, a community forest cooperative, a board of trade, an outfitters' association and private businesses.

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• Prince Edward Island

  Prince Edward Island has seasonal campground jobs at eight provincial parks run by Tourism PEI, at Parks Canada's Cavendish and Stanhope campgrounds, at the municipally run St. Peter's Park Campground and at private campgrounds such as Twin Shores. No current campground host or site-for-work programme was found.

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• Newfoundland and Labrador

  Newfoundland and Labrador has seasonal campground work at 13 ParksNL provincial parks (12 on the island and Pinware River in Labrador), at Pippy Park in St. John's, at Gros Morne and Terra Nova national parks, and at independent campgrounds, many on former provincial park sites. In Labrador, the leads are Pinware River, Gosling Lake, Duley Lake and the remote Torngat Mountains Base Camp run by Arctic Kingdom.

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Territories

• Yukon

  Yukon has more than 50 road-accessible territorial campgrounds and day-use recreation sites run by Yukon Parks, plus a City of Whitehorse campground and Parks Canada campgrounds in Kluane. Work comes as Government of Yukon park jobs (including student Park Experience Host posts), campground maintenance contracts, and city or federal park jobs.

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• Northwest Territories

  The Northwest Territories has a network of territorial park campgrounds owned by the GNWT Department of Industry, Tourism and Investment (ITI) and mostly run by local businesses under operations and maintenance contracts. Campground jobs usually come from those contractors, plus GNWT government jobs and a Parks Canada volunteer host program at Wood Buffalo National Park.

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• Nunavut

  Nunavut has small territorial campgrounds near communities such as Kimmirut, Pangnirtung, Pond Inlet, Resolute Bay and Baker Lake, plus larger territorial parks, all run by the Government of Nunavut's Nunavut Parks and Special Places with community committees. Work is mainly paid park maintenance, visitor services and coordination jobs, and local service contracts, with Parks Canada hiring separately for national parks.

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