Seasonal Job Positions
Join our team.
We are currently accepting applications for the 2025 season.
2025 Season: May 3rd - September 1st, with the possibility of additional hours in September.
Job descriptions are provided below.
Ready to start your favorite job?
Please email your completed application to wildernesswalksam@gmail.com
What’s it like to be a part of the
Wilderness Walk family?
Café Associate: 18+
Hours: Two shifts positions available
Shift 1: 9:30am – 5pm, 3 days/ week and 11:30am - 5pm 1 day/ week for a total of 4 working days per week which includes every other weekend and scheduled holidays
Shift 2: 11:30am - 5pm 3 days per week which includes every other weekend and scheduled holidays
Café team members sell and distribute a variety of food and beverage items, including alcohol. Duties include providing a clean, welcoming environment for visitors, restocking food, beverages, supplies, and service areas, and daily cleanings and upkeep of the Café and Western Town area.
Qualifications: Applicants must be 18 years of age or older due to serving alcohol. A friendly, welcoming demeaner is necessary to work with visitors and coworkers every day.
Physical Requirements: Some lifting is required along with long periods of standing.
Cafe Team Member
Hours: 11:30am - 5pm, 3 days/ week which includes every other weekend and scheduled holidays
Café team members sell and distribute a variety of food and beverage items. Duties include providing a clean, welcoming environment for visitors, restocking food, beverages, supplies, and service areas, and daily cleanings and upkeep of the Café and Western Town area.
Qualifications: A friendly, welcoming demeaner is necessary to work with visitors and coworkers every day.
Physical Requirements: Some lifting is required along with long periods of standing.
Guest Services - Tickets & Souvenirs Team Member
Hours: 9am – 5pm in the Souvenir Shop
9:30am - 2:30/3pm in the ticket booth
3- 4 days/ week rotating between both areas which includes every other weekend and scheduled holidays
Tickets and souvenir team members greet and interact with each visitor- making their visit both pleasant and memorable. These team members rotate working in both areas throughout the week creating a well-rounded staff member. Tickets team members act as the zoo’s first impression by welcoming visitors and assist them in purchasing tickets and checking in pre-purchased tickets. Souvenir team members act as both the first and last impression of the zoo by thanking guests for visiting, as well as greeting and checking in our season pass holders. Team members also assist guests in purchasing gifts.
Duties also include the cleaning and upkeep of the tickets area, parking lots, and souvenir shop as well as restocking merchandise in the gift shop.
Qualifications: A friendly, welcoming demeaner is necessary to work with visitors and coworkers every day.
Physical Requirements: Some lifting is required along with long periods of standing.
Morning Grounds Maintenance
Hours: 7am – 11:30am, 3- 4 days/ week which includes every other weekend and scheduled holidays
Morning maintenance team members oversee and maintain the cleaning of the zoo’s grounds before guests arrive. Duties include poop scooping behind the deer and birds through the entire zoo and filling coin feeders before visitors arrive, refilling feed cans, and raking and weed whacking zoo grounds.
Qualifications: A friendly, welcoming demeaner is necessary to work with visitors and coworkers every day.
Physical Requirements: Must be able to lift 50 pounds along with long periods of standing.
Nursery Team Member
Hours: 7:45am – 4:45pm, 3 - 4 days/ week which includes every other weekend and scheduled holidays
Nursery team members assist in caring for the zoo’s small animals and neonates, as well as provides guests with a hands-on, educational experience. Duties include feeding and watering animals, monitoring basic animal health, handling animals for visitor education and conversing with them, unloading and moving feed, and cleaning animal enclosures such as changing beddings, raking, and shoveling.
Qualifications: A friendly, welcoming demeaner is necessary to work with visitors and coworkers every day. A basic knowledge of animal husbandry is preferred.
Physical Requirements: Must be able to lift 50 pounds along with long periods of standing.
Animal Care Intern
Our animal care interns oversee the care of the zoo’s native, exotic, and domestic animals during our summer season.
Please visit the “Internships” page for more information.
What are the perks of being a team member?
Free zoo admission for you and your immediate family on your days off.
40% employee discount on food in the Cafe and gifts in the Souvenir Shop
* clothing discount is seasonally dependent*Team bonding nights throughout the season.
