Support Your Parks

Washington County can accommodate large volunteer groups. This is great for scout troops, company volunteer days, volunteer organizations and more.

If your company or organization is interested in a private group volunteer event for ~10+ people for seed collecting in September, October, please complete our group volunteer application and email it to our Natural Resources Coordinator.

Volunteer to help us collect information from park visitors at various places around the County. During specific 2-hour periods, volunteers count visitors and hand out visitor surveys. This data helps staff determine park use and visitor preferences. Volunteers are needed at nearly all parks, including the Hardwood Creek Trail in Hugo / Forest Lake. If you are interested in being a random survey volunteer, please contact the Parks Division at 651-430-8370 or email.

If you or anyone in your household want to recreate outdoors and help us with oak savanna restoration efforts in the park, please send us an email so we can connect and provide you or your household with a spot to adopt and restore in the park.

Washington County Parks regularly receives requests for Eagle Scout/Silver Award volunteer projects, where a scout has identified a project to solve a problem/need in the parks. Below is a list of current potential projects, we also encourage scouts to present their own ideas: 

• Construct wooden benches in the parks
  • Scouts must show existing bench locations on a map, and include locations for the proposed bench installation as part of the project submittal.
• Natural resource activities (growing high value prairie plants from seed, buckthorn removal). 

Please spend time in a county park or facility and think about the project, discuss the project with troop leaders and parents prior to submitting the Eagle Scout project description form. Once you have submitted the form via email, a response will be given within 30 business days.