The Compass Blog

Recreate Responsibly is a coalition comprised of nonprofits, outdoor businesses, and land managers (CoolWorks is proud to be one of them) and was formed in May 2020 in order to develop and share best practices to protect each other and our natural landscapes.

If you’re going to be spending time outdoors this summer – hiking, camping, backpacking, climbing, cycling, kayaking, the list goes on and on – it’s a very good idea to learn how to read the clouds so you can learn which clouds are harbingers of storms.

With the arrival of summer, our National Parks beginning to reopen, and many of us needing a big dose of Mother Nature, it’s a good time to remind ourselves of Leave No Trace ethics. Leave No Trace Land Ethics was the name of a pamphlet the US Forest Service, National...

Check out our new updated job map – each individual map pin opens up a pop-out showing the employer, their seasons, and links to their Profile and Job Listings.

Acadia National Park boasts amazing geological diversity, over 100 miles of hiking trails, and a rich history deserving of one of our national treasures!

Seasonal pilgrimage has roots going back over a century now. A notable group of early pioneers – some of the original “seasonal workers” – were leaving their homes and traveling across the county for seasonal jobs starting in 1880 for the Fred Harvey Company.

Seasonal jobs are often thought of as a working vacation – having an entire season to live, work, and play where others may only dream of visiting. These jobs can be overlooked as opportunities to save money while traveling and living in amazing places. If you play your cards right,...

This time of year when the days get shorter, and the temperatures drop, those of us who are winter-inclined start thinking about the snowy fun we’re about to have. After a day loading chair lifts or skiing the bumps, the tracks, the backcountry trails, snowshoeing through a pine forest, mushing dogs,...

It’s that time of year when employers for winter seasonal jobs are in full recruiting mode. In pondering a winter job and where you might like to be, here’s a rundown of possibilities to consider.

When we talk about seasonal jobs, we mean opportunities that allow you to travel, to live and work in places where others go on vacation, jobs that give you the opportunity to live in beautiful places that you can explore during your time off.

The beginning of summer is sneaking up, and lately, I’ve been thinking about powerful endings. All of you have likely experienced the acute impression that a significant ending can stamp on our memory: graduation and the inevitable dispersing of longtime friends, returning for the first time to an empty nest after shipping...

Even though we’ve reached late May and have been taunted by the prospect of summer for a few weeks now, it’s currently 42 degrees, raining, gusting winds up to 45 mph, and snow is in the forecast here at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The outlook for the...