Camp Host at Canyon Lakes

ExplorUS; Morrison (CO); On-site; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Competitive pay

Job summary

An outdoor recreation company in Colorado is seeking a Camp Host for the 2025 season. This role involves providing excellent customer service to visitors, maintaining facilities, and handling administrative tasks such as fee collection and sales. Ideal candidates should have strong communication skills and enjoy working in outdoor environments. Eligible employees may receive health benefits, and all hours worked will be paid.

Qualifications

• Experience in customer service
• Ability to clean and sanitize facilities
• Basic recordkeeping and money handling experience

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent customer service to visitors
• Perform administrative tasks and recordkeeping
• Maintain facilities and grounds, including cleaning and sanitizing
• Handle fee collection and sales of retail items
• Report problems and unsafe conditions as discovered

Skills

Customer service skills

Ability to work independently

Good communication skills

Job description

Our 2025 season at Arapahoe - Canyon Lakes offers rewarding jobs for outdoor enthusiasts, providing the chance to assist with outdoor recreation while helping preserve the natural beauty of Colorado’s Front Range.

Title: Camp Host

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate courteousness and a helpful attitude to all visitors; provide excellent customer service by educating the public on rules and regulations of the recreation area.
• Perform certain administrative tasks, including basic recordkeeping and fee collection.
• Maintain facilities and grounds, including cleaning, sanitizing and stocking of restrooms, emptying trash containers, replacing liners, cleaning roadways and trails, cleaning campsites, picnic tables, fire rings, grills, and disposing of ashes.
• Rake and groom sites and public areas, maintain a litter‑free facility, pick up micro‑trash such as bottle caps and cigarette butts, maintain outlying areas such as trails, outposts, and rental cabins.
• Maintain a good working relationship with fellow employees, governmental agency representatives, and the visiting public.
• Register campers, collect fees, and sell certain retail items such as firewood, ice, and concession goods.
• Process revenues and fee collection data using Company approved forms and procedures.
• Be familiar with local points of interest, nearby facilities, and local rules and regulations.
• Report problems and any unsafe or hazardous conditions as they are discovered.

Requirements

• Strong customer service skills; enjoy working in an environment of extensive public contact.
• Basic manual labor abilities, including an ability and willingness to clean and sanitize facilities with a variety of cleaning agents and chemicals.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Basic recordkeeping experience, including money handling.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision and be able to learn quickly and follow instructions accurately.
• Willing to work a flexible work schedule, including regular evenings, weekends and holidays.
• Able to lift 20 pounds on a frequent basis.
• The ability to move safely over rough and uneven terrain.
• The ability to work in extreme weather.Able to tow own RV (where applicable) in and out of campgrounds in emergency situations.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Eligible employees are offered health benefits. All hours worked will be paid.