The PCTA has a system of 5 Regional Coordinators (Southern CA, Central CA, Northern CA, OR and WA) who oversee roughly 500-600 miles of PCT). Within each Region we have multiple Area Coordinators who often oversee a segment of the PCT within a particular Forest, Park or Resource Area. Between the RC's and the AC's, they coordinate volunteer projects, work with our agency partners and other groups, assist trail adopters, gather work reports and monitor the status of trail, typically.

For information on either the Regional Coordinator or Area Coordinator opportunities send us an e-mail by clicking here.

PCT Speakers Bureau/Ambassadors

Many PCT hikers and riders, whether they've done the entire trail or just segments of it, often give slide shows about the trail and their experiences. If you are one of these people and you'd like some PCT and PCTA brochures to pass out during your presentations, please let us know.

The PCTA also wishes to develop a speakers bureau, a list of volunteers, who can give talks about the PCT and the PCTA in response to requests for presentations. For PCT and PCTA materials for your own slide presentations or to become a member of our PCTA Speakers Bureau, send us an email by clicking here.

Conference And Event Volunteers

Additionally, we often need volunteers to attend local, regional and even national hiking and equestrian events, meetings and conferences, manage the PCTA display and to give out PCT information. For details on these events, send us an e-mail by clicking here.

Trail Register Monitors

PCT trail registers are located at dozens of locations along the trail. We need volunteers to monitor these and to make sure that new registers and information is available in each location in the spring. For a list of register locations and volunteer monitor opportunities send us an e-mail by clicking here.

Trailhead Parking and Road Crossing Inventory and Assessment

In the fall of 1998, the PCTA began an inventory and assessment of all trailheads and road crossings along the PCT. With the help of additional volunteers we hope to complete the project by the end of 2000. The inventory and assessment involves filling out a simple field form and taking slides or prints of existing trailhead and road crossing features (parking area, signs, bulletin board, sanitation facilities, underpass or overpass, highway signs, trail signs, etc.).

Volunteers can sign up for one or more trailheads or road crossings in CA, OR or WA. For a "Trailhead Parking and Road Crossing Inventory and Assessment" send us an e-mail by clicking here.

PCT Easement Assessment

The PCT travels across approximately 300 miles of private land on permanent easements or rights-of-way that are typically 10-30' wide. The PCTA, with support from the Dexter Environmental Foundation, the National Forest Foundation and the US Forest Service, has undertaken an effort to collect and assess all the easements.

The easement inventory phase, done in cooperation with all agency partners, is complete. Volunteers are now needed to assess some easements, a simple field form and taking photos. Basic map reading skills are necessary. For more information and to volunteer send us an e-mail by clicking here.

PCTA CrestFest Volunteers

The PCTA hold a special weekend event, known as CrestFest, for it's members each fall. Locations vary. Volunteers are needed to help with the meals, registration, trip leading, slide shows and workshops. For more information or to volunteer send us an e-mail by clicking here.

Volunteer Land Use Planning Monitors

The PCT passes through 24 National Forests, 7 National Parks, 5 CA State Parks, 5 Bureau of Land Management Resource Areas as well as other public and private lands. There are a multitude of land development and management plans, environmental assessments, Wilderness Management Plans and specific project environmental assessments or list of proposed actions that constantly need to be reviewed by PCTA staff and volunteers.

Many environmental assessments or proposed actions do not specifically include information on whether or not the timber sale, road or other project is actually on or near the PCT. Thus we need people who live near or know particular Forests, Parks and Resource Areas, who can read the planning materials and red flag those that may affect the PCT. You can be the "eyes and ears" for a segment of the trail. PCTA staff and our Public Policy Committee can then develop formal responses to any proposals that might affect the PCT.

For information on becoming a Volunteer Land Use Planning Monitor and signing up for all planning documents for the Forest, Park or Resource Area of you choice, send us an e-mail by clicking here.

PCTA Office Volunteers

Volunteers are always needed to assist with membership mailings, work on the PCTA archives, do database entry and assist with PCTA Store shipments at our office in Sacramento. For more information or to volunteer contact send us an e-mail by clicking here.

PCTA Magazine And Website Writers

Volunteers contribute most of the articles and photos to the PCTA magazine The Communicator, some of which are then used on our website. For more information on publishing deadlines for the magazine or how to contribute articles or photos, contact: Angela Ballard, Editor. To e-mail Angela, click here. Or call her at: (916)-349-2109 ext. 19.

PCTA Volunteer Photographers

The PCTA welcomes contributions of slides and photos to expand our collection. We use images for presentations, articles, brochures and displays. Images about any and all aspects of the PCT, hikers and equestrians and those who maintain the trail would be of interest. If images are used in any publication we will give credit to the sources. To donate copies send us an e-mail by clicking here.

Volunteering With Cooperating Agencies and Trail Organizations

Finally, in addition to the PCTA volunteer programs, some agencies offer volunteer opportunities, as do many of our fellow hiking and equestrian organizations. For information on these we suggest that you contact the agencies and organizations directly via one of the links offered elsewhere in our website.

If you are already volunteering with the PCTA...thank you! If you are not or you'd like to support our public service programs, we hope to hear from you soon. Happy Trails.