The Baxter Youth Conservation Corps is a job training and service-learning opportunity for youth from the Katahdin region of Maine. Since 2017, this program has been hiring local youth for full-time summer employment doing trail work in Baxter State Park. Participants gain valuable training, job skills, and work experience in a spectacular wilderness setting.

Each year we hire up to 12 youth trail crew positions! The BYCC season will run from late June - mid August. Crew members can apply to work with the BYCC for either the entire 6-week season OR only part of the season (2 or 4 weeks). Currently enrolled students and homeschoolers from Stearns, Schenck, Katahdin, or Southern Aroostook high schools or Mattanawcook Academy are eligible to apply, as well as recent graduates of these schools from 2025 and 2026 can apply for our 2027 season. Seasonal residents of the Katahdin Region between the ages of 15 - 19, who live in Maine year-round are also eligible to apply. Trail crew positions pay a starting rate of $18/hr, with a $1/hr raise for every year of experience in the program.