Put in 24 hours of pleasant enough work in good company—planting trees, cleaning beaches, repairing trails—on Washington’s beautiful recreation lands and you’ll earn a free Discover Pass for a year’s worth of entrance to your favorite forest, lakeside, or coastal park.
The parks post the available work projects on their website, or you can check with your local ranger for upcoming needs. He/she will also be the one you “report to,” and the official who signs off on your hours voucher. Once you’ve fulfilled your 24 hours you mail it in to redeem your Discover Pass. Over the past 13 months more than 500 free passes were sent out to volunteers, the equivalent of one million paid-for passes. The revenue is split in percentages: 84 percent for the state parks, 8 percent for the Department of Natural Resources, and 8 percent for Fish and Wildlife. For those who love these special places in the Northwest, think of the work as the grown-up version of a Scout patch, proudly earned.
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