Welcome VolunteerS To Our 2026 Season!
Please view the following opportunities below by clicking on their title, photo, or link
(We are currently in the process of updating our 2026 Volunteer Map and will be up-to-date soon)
Registration Instructions
STEP 1: Scroll through our list of projects. Click any of the photos or titles associated with the project to access its page. Read carefully about the dates, location, scope of work, degree of difficulty, vehicle requirements, and camping logistics.
STEP 2: If you are interested in volunteering, click the link that says “CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!” You will be re-directed to the project’s registration form. (If you are re-directed to a HistoriClub Early Access Page, this means the project is locked until the advanced access window for HistoriClub members is complete. If you would like advanced access to projects you can join HistoriClub.)
STEP 3: Please fill out the registration form and pay close attention to which sessions you select to volunteer at. Any session you select and are accepted to we expect your participation you and will be taking a space away from another prospective volunteer. (We do not offer placeholders – check Volunteer Job Calendar for spaces available on the sessions you desire.)
STEP 4: Submit the form and sit tight! We’ll email you if you are accepted to the project! (Look for a Confirmation or Waitlisted email with the project in the title.)
HAVING DIFFICULTIES REGISTERING?: Contact us at volunteer@historicorps.org
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
(Click on titles or photos to access volunteer opportunities)
CLICK HERE to check AVAILABLE VOLUNTEER SPACES via our Volunteer Job Calendar
Settlers Museum Farmhouse, VA
George Washington & Jefferson National Forests
May 24-29, May 31 – June 5, June 7-12, June 14-19, and June 21-26
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
Step in your time machine and join us as we experience what rural life looked like in Southwest Virginia in the late 19th century. The Settlers Museum and Farmhouse of Southwest Virginia is a 67-acre open-air museum that shares the story of the people who settled in the region many years ago. Located in the scenic Walker’s Creek Valley, the Settlers Museum and Farmhouse of Southwest Virginia preserves the story of early rural life in the Appalachians. The farmstead, complete with original outbuildings and period furnishings, offers a rare glimpse into how frontier families lived, work and build community.
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We’re thrilled to return for another phase of preservation work at the Crescent Moon Ranch! Crescent Moon Ranch was established in the late 1800s by cattleman John Lee, who’d come over from Prescott. The land was historically inhabited by Apache, Western Apache, Hopitutskwa, Pueblos, and Hohokam Nations. According to NPR member station KNAU, “The ranch sits at the base of Cathedral Rocks south of Sedona. It was first homesteaded by Prescott cattleman John Lee in 1880 and was originally called the OK Ranch. Lee put in an irrigation ditch, garden, and orchard, but he soon left. Since then, the ranch has changed hands and been repurposed several times.
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Forest Lodge, WI
Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
May 31 – June 5, June 7-12, June 14-19, and June 21-26
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
It’s that time of year again when a returning cast of characters and a slew of new preservationists make the drive out to the northern woods of Wisconsin in an effort to continue a time honored tradition we’ve been enough lucky to foster at the etherial Forest Lodge. Forest Lodge is HistoriCorps’ longest continuing project and the roughly 50 acre Historic District is made up of 12 structures including the Gatehouse, Great Hall, Guesthouse, and the iconic Boathouse which sits on the banks of the beautiful Lake Namekagon.
Click here to learn more about the project and volunteer!
Jesse Ross Cabin, CA
May 31 – June 5, July 5-10, July 12-17, and July 19-24
6 Volunteers (No Kitchen Helper)
(Session 1 has new dates!)
Running adjacent to the North Fork River lies the larger-than-life Jesse Ross Cabin. Built in 1860 by Jesse Blakey Ross himself, the cabin is one of the oldest log structures located within Madera County, California. Constructed using ponderosa pine, the cabin is a one-and-a-half story, single-pen, square-hewn log cabin that was built to be part of the larger homestead established by Ross. Ross was born in Missouri in 1835 and headed westward during the Gold Rush, working for many years as a mine supplier. Join us this season in the Sierra National Forest to restore the Jesse Ross Cabin!
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Stubs Ranger Station, CO
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland
May 31 – June 5, June 7-12, June 14-19, and June 21-26
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
The Stubs Ranger Station (also known as the Stub Creek Cabin or Stub Creek Work Center) is part of the Stub Creek Administrative Site, which is a complex is located on the north end of the Laramie River Valley in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland. The Stubs Ranger Station served as a ranger station prior to the Civilian Conservation Corps presence in the area, and a ranger named Bruce Torgny administered the Laramie River subdistrict from this building. The origins of this initial station are not known, though historic photographs suggest the existence of a log barn and fence located on-site.
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Clearwater Big House, WA
May 31 – June 5, June 7-12, June 14-19, and June 21-26
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
The Umatilla National Forest in the southeastern corner of Washington state will play host this summer to our next HistoriCorps volunteer opportunity. It’s here you’ll find pristine mountain ridges with soft rolling creeks dissecting steep valleys and the Clearwater Big House, a remnant of the early Forest years in the Umatilla. Built between 1928 and 1929 by Ranger Grover Blake, the Clearwater Big House is a 3 bedroom cabin with a living room and kitchen comprising 868 square feet of living space that was constructed from donated scrap lumber from local stockmen and game department.
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AHP: Boise National Forest Recreation Residence Survey, ID
June 7-12
6 Volunteers (No Kitchen Helper)
Join us in Boise National Forest for a week long adventure surveying tracts of recreation residences to help determine future preservation efforts. Volunteers will travel to different sites to collect the necessary data that will help the Forests determine how they manage these lands for future generations. You’ll be a mobile workforce traveling from site to site photographing, measuring, and investigating the numerous structures on each tract. Volunteers and our field staff will commute together to a given tract location daily. We will be walking and standing for the majority of our 8-9 hour days, so please ensure your physical fitness is adequate.
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AHP: Stanislaus National Forest Recreation Residence Survey, CA
June 21-26, June 28 – July 3, July 5-10, July 12-17, August 2-7, August 9-14. August 16-21, and August 23-28
6 Volunteers (No Kitchen Helper)
We’re excited to spend 8 weeks gathering essential data for the Stanislaus National Forest that will help determine their future preservation efforts concerning their aging recreation residencies. Volunteers will travel to different sites to collect the necessary data that will help the Forests determine how they manage these lands for future generations. You’ll be a mobile workforce traveling from site to site photographing, measuring, and investigating the numerous structures on each tract. Volunteers and our field staff will commute together to a given tract location daily.
Click here to learn more about the project and volunteer!
White Bluffs Cabin, WA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
July 12-17 and July 19-24
7 Volunteers + Kitchen Helper
JUST RELEASED!
WE’VE RESCHEDULED! White Bluffs Cabin is now officially back on the calendar and we invite you to join us in Washington for a one-of-a-kind preservation opportunity. This is one of the few projects in the country where volunteers will help build a sod roof. This is a living, traditional roof of the kind that crowned cabins across the West before sawmills caught up to settlement. Before the sod goes down, the team will lift and level the building, document and dismantle the original roof, and replace deteriorated wall logs. This will be an opportunity to learn and practice a craft skill you literally cannot pick up almost anywhere else!
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Fraser Experimental Forest Log Cabin, CO
Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland
July 12-17, July 19-24, and July 26-31
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
The Fraser Experimental Forest is an outdoor research laboratory situated within north-central Colorado’s Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grasslands. Established in 1937, the Fraser Experimental Forest is one of only thirteen other similar sites managed by the United States Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. The United States Forest Service defines an experimental forest as “an area administered….to provide for the research necessary for management of the land”. The first experimental forest was established in 1908 and the current network contains eighty forests (with some that are nearly fifty years old). Experimental forests are an important resource for scientists.
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Gillespie Place,WY
Bureau of Land Management – Wyoming
July 12-17, July 19-24, July 26-31, and August 2-7
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
The historic communities of South Pass City and Atlantic City in Wyoming are locations that are intrinsically linked to the 1867 South Pass Gold Rush. According to WyoHistory.org, for years, rumors of gold in the area dominated the local discourse, but to no avail, as the rumored treasure had not yet been discovered. Until the late 1860’s there was only mica (more commonly known as fool’s gold) to be uncovered. Centuries after this gold rush, remnants of the past still stand, reminding us of the frenzy that once took this land by storm. Nestled within the region’s expansive, rugged, and historic terrain is Gillespie Place, a structure that has stood frozen in time.
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Rohrbaugh Cabin, WV
July 12-17, July 19-24, August 9-14, and August 16-21
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
On the eastern slope of North Fork Mountain in the Smoke Hole region of West Virginia is Rohrbaugh Cabin, a rustic two and a half story home built around 1880 by European descendent William H. Rohrbaugh. The double pen style log structure featuring hewn tulip poplar logs housed members of the Rohrbaugh family for generations until the end of their ownership in 1962. During their tenure, the Rohrbaughs maintained a prosperous farmstead cultivating crops and raising livestock in a typical agrarian living of the times. Join us at Rohrbaugh Cabin for a preservation opportunity unlike any other.
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Rising atop the crest of the Cement Ridge sits the resplendent Cement Ridge Lookout. Located in Crook County, Wyoming at an elevation of 6,647 ft., the Cement Ridge Lookout is a lookout structure that was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1941. Shaped by years of change, the Cement Ridge Lookout remains a defining symbol of our nation’s fire management infrastructure and a beloved vantage point for sweeping views. The Cement Ridge Lookout has evolved through multiple iterations. The lookout itself was initially conceptualized as a log cabin and was built between 1911 and 1913.
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Whitcomb-Cole House, WA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
August 16-21 and August 23-28
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
JUST RELEASED!
Within the sweeping Conboy Lake Wildlife Refuge lies the stately Whitcomb-Cole House (also known as the Stephen S. Whitcomb Cabin). This pioneer home is an impressive 18 x 25 foot cabin that was built in 1875 by Stephen S. Whitcomb (an early settler of the area). The building is a one-and-a-half story side gable dwelling with a porch addition. The exterior walls are constructed of hewn logs, and the structure is a rare extant example of late 19th-century frontier log architecture. The building contains chinking between the logs and a split-shingle roof. The cabin’s utilitarian design and construction reflected the practical, resilient, and pioneering nature of the earliest settlers of the Glenwood Valley. The home was later occupied by John Cole, who built and expanded upon the grounds.
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Section House, CO
Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands
August 16-21
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
Colorado is known for its picturesque mountain passes, and our next project is set at the fabled Section House located on the expansive Boreas Pass just south of Breckenridge along the Continental Divide. Stationed at a breathtaking 11,500 feet, Section House, along with the historic wagon era Ken’s Cabin, is one of the original stops along the Denver South Park & Pacific narrow gauge railway that ran from Denver to Leadville from the late 1800s into the early 1900s. It was also the highest narrow gauge railroad in the United States at the time, allowing for a boom in commercial mining during the formative years at the turn of the century.
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Hunter Creek Miner’s Cabin, CO
Hunter Creek Historical Foundation
August 23-28, August 30 – September 4, September 6-11, September 13-18, and September 20-25
7 Volunteers + 1 Kitchen Helper
The Hunter Creek Valley is a supremely popular and beautiful hiking area just outside of Aspen. During this HistoriCorps project, volunteers will get to experience a once-in-a-lifetime, all-inclusive trip to this internationally-renowned destination while also giving back through preserving the iconic Hunter Creek Miner’s Cabin. According to the Hunter Creek Historical Foundation, “This 60-acre site includes both pre-historic and historic components and has been identified by the Forest Service as officially eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Properties. Register and join us for our fifth season up in the Hunter Creek Valley as we move on to restoring the historic Miner’s Cabin!
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East Channel Lighthouse, MI
September 6-11, September 13-18, and September 20-25
6 Volunteers (No Kitchen Helper)
We’re heading to the banks of Lake Superior for a HistoriCorps volunteer experience unlike one we’ve had in years. This season, we’re going back to the Hiawatha National Forest for a splash of preservation excitement! From June 1864 to June 1866, Congress appropriated money to build beacon lights at the entrance to Grand Island Bay and Harbor, Lake Superior. A light or set of lights was needed to allow vessels to use Munising Harbor as a major harbor of refuge and from this need arose the Grand Island East Channel Lighthouse. This structure is a unique wooden lighthouse that stands tall and proud on the banks of Lake Superior and was constructed to direct boats from Lake Superior through the channel east of Grand Island into the Munising Harbor.