It offers three recreation areas: Rendezvous Beach, Bear Lake Marina, and East Side, which comprises several more segments.

The park also hosts many annual events, such as a Mountain Man Rendezvous and Bear Lake Raspberry Days.

A thousand or more Native Americans and mountain men, including Jedediah Smith, attended these gatherings.

There were so many campfires at the south end of the lake at these trading sessions that one observer called the area "a lighted city.

"[4] Today Rendezvous Beach is a 1.25-mile-long (2.01 km) recreation area with 220 campsites, along with restrooms, showers, and utility hookups.