Nearby attractions include Priceville Footbridge, the longest suspension footbridge in New Brunswick, and Nelson Hollow Bridge, the oldest covered bridge in the province.

Boiestown is the setting for Peter Emberley, a well-known traditional ballad and a favourite lumbering song of New Brunswick.

The song recounts the story of a young man from Prince Edward Island who was killed in the Miramichi woods when a log rolled on him.

It is immortalised in Edward D. Ives 1959 Folkways Records album Folksongs of Maine, and in the 1962 recording Folksongs of the Miramichi: Lumber and River Songs from the Miramichi Folk Fest, Newcastle, New Brunswick.

Bob Dylan's Ballad of Donald White is adapted from the music and words of Peter Emberley.