The nature park is bordered by the rivers Danube, Wertach, Schmutter, Flossach and Mindel.

It is part of the Tertiary Hills between the Danube and the Bavarian Alpine Foreland.

The Nature-Park-House, which was opened in the year 1992, is located in an adjoining building of Oberschönenfeld Abbey south of Gessertshausen.

Furthermore there is near the Nature-Park-House the last thatched Staudenhaus, a little farm house in the type of construction which was typical in the Stauden.

In the stables, unused since 1972, the Bezirk Schwaben established the Swabian Folklore and Crafts Museum (Schwäbische Volkskundemuseum) in 1984.