National Park Service reviews

Here's the thing: Yosemite National Park has NO housing for more than fifty miles outside the Park and rents are skyrocketing towards $3000. The San Francisco Regional office -- which gets the highest housing allowance and thus the highest pay in the nation --- is absolutely fine with the fact its Yosemite employees get the LOWEST salaries. Result: only the upper-"middle"-class/wealthy/and/or children of the very well off can afford to stay there, so there is an elitist attitude about the very citizens the Park should be hiring and serving. I have a family member whom I also must care for and we are a single-income family -- absolutely no care or understanding from management. And my jaw has dropped in awe the ONLY two times I have actually witnessed an African American working at the Park! Do white upper-middle-class managers really believe they represent "diversity" simply because many of them are women...????!!! If only they knew what it is like to genuinely work - actually labor -- to raise yourself up from near poverty your entire life, and then pay off a loan to obtain an advanced degree to try to gain some level of success.

Parks are ran focused more on the visitors then managing the animals and lands. Feels like working at an amusement park. From management to the bottom floor employee, there is a culture of gossip and lax expectations.