The Buscot (1,245 m / 4,084 ft) is an attached subpeak on the western side of the main range.

Flora includes slim snow tussock (Chionochloa macra) and narrow-leaved snow tussock (Chionochloa rigida) as well as an array of alpine herbs, while fauna include the New Zealand falcon, sky lark, chukar, California quail and the New Zealand pipit, as well as the common skink and common gecko.

Although it is almost entirely New Zealand Crown land and a protected Outstanding Landscape Area, several large farm stations have legally run stock on the Benmore Range for more than a century, including Ben Omar, Benmore, Buscot, Glenbrook, Glencairn, Peak Valley and Totara Peak.

Benmore Peak Observatory (BPO) is sited on privately owned land at the summit plateau.

It is the highest altitude observatory in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica and the Andes of South America.