Nick Stanich, veteran park ranger with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, has just been promoted to the manager's job at Lake Mary State Park. The story begins when Nick and his family move into the park residence and he starts his new job. Join Nick as he deals with government bureaucracy, infrastructure failures, severe weather, law enforcement incidents, accidents, medical emergencies, wildlife encounters, and demanding customers. And that's the easy stuff. The real challenges are employee issues and personalities. Nick is confronted with a power hungry clerk who's not happy with all of the changes being made, a maintenance employee who's on suspension for drinking and driving, a flirtatious female employee who desperately wants to get promoted, an angry union steward who is suspicious of everything management does, a cranky senior employee who thinks very highly of himself, and two park volunteers that have been breaking the law for years while working at the park.
