Both Silver Springs and Varsity communities are perched at the top of the escarpment overlooking the Bow River and are access points to the Park.

A section of the Bowmont Natural Area forms the southern border of Silver Springs and is known locally as "The Ravine" or "The Gully".

[Notes 1] The slopes along Bowmont Park were carved by Glacial Lake Calgary which was formed as the last glaciers melted but the runoff was blocked by an ice dam further down the Bow River Valley, during the Pleistocene epoch.

[6]: 5  In 2010 the City acquired the former privately-owned Klippert Concrete property, "located on the lower terrace below Varsity and accessed via Home Road", which "operated as a gravel pit until 2010."

[7] In Bowmont Park the naturalizing project enhances the "sensitive grassland habitat" and improves the "important wildlife corridor".

As part of the Bowmont Park Management Plan, they were "reintroducing native species to open spaces" and in this area removing smooth brome which is an invasive plant.

[9] Bowmont Park also includes Waterfall valley which runs from the south end of Silver Springs Boulevard to the river below.

In 2010 the City acquired the former Klippert gravel pit, which was located along the northern bank of the Bow River, and highly visible from the escarpment above.

By 2018, the gravel pit operation and other disturbed lands were in replaced with "wetlands, wet meadows, riparian shrubland and Balsam Poplar forest.

"[12]: 101  The ecological integrity of the site was restored increasing the "bio-diversity index of one of the city's largest natural environment parks.

The three parks—Baker, Bowmont, and Bowness—which are technically separate are linked by two pedestrian bridges creating a larger interconnected park.

In a 2010 interview with the Herald, natural area management lead with the City of Calgary parks department, Chris Manderson, described how they created two "new wet ponds" which were educational and functional—the wet ponds "protect the Bow River by incorporating green stormwater treatment".

[21] Alongside the ecological restoration, one of the main focuses of the project was stormwater treatment before entering the Bow River.

[24]The design for the "sculpted polishing marshes and wet meadows" created by Sans façon, O2 and S2S[22] were inspired by anabranches.

[23] The design of the park includes innovative flood mitigation strategies, one of a number of initiatives to make Calgary more resilient.

[26] The Project undertaken in 2018 included the "widening of a river side channel to allow water to flow through year-round" the removal and replacement of the pedestrian bridge on the north.

[25][1][Notes 4] This habitat site is near the area where the Canadian Pacific Railway main line cuts across the park, running parallel to the Bow River.