Connect with a Campground Host in Kennedy Range National Park  

If you have visited a campground in WA’s national parks, you have likely come across one of our wonderful volunteer campground hosts. 

Each year, around 300 volunteers in DBCA’s Campground Host Program dedicate thousands of hours to supporting the management of more than 60 campgrounds across Western Australia, playing a vital role in welcoming visitors and protecting our natural spaces. 

Visitors appreciate the presence of volunteer Campground Hosts. Their role in helping to maintain the facilities in campgrounds, meet and greet visitors on arrival and assist with finding their campsite and answer any queries about hiking trails and features of the area enhances their experience. Hosts also collect camping fees and have access to a range of information about local wildlife, geology and any cultural significance of the area. 

One great example of hosts in action is Kennedy Range National Park. Located about 170km east of Carnarvon, the park is jointly managed by DBCA and the Yinggarda Aboriginal Corporation.  

The park is known for dramatic landscape dominated by sandstone cliffs, rocky gorges, rock-strewn plains, classic arid shrubland and a vast plateau area with a carpet of pale green spinifex overlaying intense, red-brown dune fields. What makes it even more special is that this beautiful arid landscape holds evidence of a past marine environment. When visiting, you can learn about this and more from the invaluable onsite campground hosts. 

Each year the Gascoyne District advertises for volunteer hosts to spend one month (between May and September) at the remote Temple Gorge Campground. Hosts receive support from DBCA staff based 60km away at the Gascoyne Junction Work Centre. If you would like to find out more about becoming a Campground Host, visit Campground hosting. 

Volunteer hosts are from all walks of life and bring a wealth of knowledge, life experience, different perspectives and an abundance of value.     

The DBCA Gascoyne District is deeply grateful to all volunteer hosts, past, present and future and for their service to the community.