The 1,153-acre (467 ha) park features a pair of observation towers affording views of the Wisconsin River valley and Baraboo Range to the north, the mounds, buttes, and rolling forests of the Driftless Area to the south and west, and the young glacial plains and city of Madison to the east.

[1] The mountain, as most of the other large mounds of the Driftless Area, is an outlier of Niagara dolomitic limestone.

It is a monadnock, having been created through centuries of erosion, with the harder dolomite being more weather-resistant than the other surrounding rock of the region.

The Military Ridge State Trail, which follows the natural east-west contour of the ridgeline from Fitchburg to Dodgeville, abuts on the southern edge of the park.

[3] In Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics, the park would have contained the finish line for the road cycling race.