Have you ever wanted to volunteer for your National Parks? Do you love the ocean? Do you want to be outside in a beautiful, wild coastal environment? Are you interested in learning about and sharing your knowledge of tidepool wildlife, geology, and/or ecology?
If you answered yes, then Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego's National Park, invites you to help protect the monument's popular tidepool area as a volunteer in the Volunteers-In-Parks Program (VIPs).
Volunteers-In-Parks in the Tidepool Protection, Education and Restoration Program (TPERP) help the National Park Service protect this intricate, fragile area by educating visitors and helping them to create their own personal intellectual and emotional connections with this fascinating environment.
In preparation for the upcoming tidepool season (October through June), the National Park Service will hold a fun, introductory orientation and training conference for new and returning TPERP volunteers Sept. 13 and Sept. 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. New Volunteers-In-Parks are required to attend the Sept. 13 training.
Please register by Sept. 10 by contacting Park Ranger Marcy Marquez at (619) 523-4573 or via email at
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, and you will be sent directions, a class schedule and other relevant information.
Cabrillo National Monument, located on Point Loma at the end of Catalina Boulevard, is open daily from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. Hourly public transportation (#28 Bus, connecting with #84 Bus) is available to the upper area of the monument only from the Old Town Trolley Station.
For additional information about the monument call (619) 557-5450 or visit www.nps.gov/cabr.
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