Anyone else ever work seasonally with NPS, FS, BLM, State parks, etc.?
>Zion NP
>15k - 20k visitors per day during peak
>95% of visitors focused on the same 3 trails up a 6-mile dead end road
>Nobody plans their trip
>Yells at us when they don't have a shuttle or campsite reservation
>Nobody has any idea where they are
>"Sorry sir, that's a state park pass, this is a national park."
>Cyanobacteria algae bloom in the river, couple dogs die, visitors continue to ignore signs and jump in the water with their dogs
>Nobody brings enough water
>SAR is near-constantly deployed, most of the time heat exhaustion
>Only one fatality my season, heat stroke
>Zion has a tunnel from 1930 that's too narrow for large vehicles to go through with two-way traffic
>Anything from a dually truck to a tour bus needed a $15 traffic control escort
>Boomers driving $75,000 duallies screaming about the $15 fee
>Visitors waiting until your back is turned to run their dog up one of the no-dogs trails
>The mule deer are all matted and tweaking out because they eat sacred datura bushes all day
>The sprawling infrastructure and endless sea of cars and visitors have absolutely ruined the local ecosystem
>Visitors carve their names over ancient native petroglyphs

Thankfully I had a cool roommate while I was there. We would mostly drink, smoke, BBQ, and jam out all night under the Milky Way.
It's been a few years since I last had a seasonal gig; sometimes I miss it and have considered BLM or a state park but never doing NPS again.