It is the starting point for most Red Jammer bus tours on the Going-to-the-Sun Road.

Apgar's campground is connected to the village by a road as well as a bike path through the woods, in which smaller wildlife can be seen, though grizzly bears have been spotted close to the camp.

The Kootenai knew Apgar as Ya Kit Haqwitnamki ("the place where they dance"), as tribal bands used to meet and perform ceremonies where the current campground is, long before White settlers arrived.

In the 1890s, Apgar, along with Frank Geduhn and Charlie Howe, built homes at the lower end of the lake with the intention of farming the area.

The summer home of western artist Charles M. Russell, Bull Head Lodge, was formerly located in Apgar.