The canyon is famous for the Timpanogos Cave National Monument, which resides on its south side.

The area is accessed by State Route 92, through what is officially called the "Alpine Loop Scenic Byway.

Tibble Fork Reservoir and Silver Lake Flats Reservoir are popular camping and fishing spots in the summer as well as offering excellent snowmobiling, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and backcountry skiing during the winter months.

The fees collected at the information stations remain in the area to improve visitor services, maintain recreation facilities, enhance wildlife habitat, and protect natural resources.

Additional artifacts from the Fremont people and other later Native American groups, spearpoints, grindstones, and arrowheads have been found in minor caves[4] along the canyon, suggesting that hunters used these caves as temporary homes or base camps for hunting.