[7] The area is characterised by lush rolling grasslands, interspersed with poplar bluffs and open sloughs.

[9] Highway 201 provides access to Bird's Point Recreation Site and Crooked Lake Provincial Park, which are located in the Qu'Appelle Valley.

It has hot summers and cold winters, with the average daily temperatures ranging from −14.2 °C (6.4 °F) in January to 18.1 °C (64.6 °F) in July.

Creating the windchill were north-westerly winds blowing at 44 kilometres per hour (27 mph) combined with a temperature of −39.3 °C (−38.7 °F).

The current councillors are Lori Stephan, Esther Bonk, Brent Bagshaw, Terry Fitzgerald, Tracy Strachan.

[18] Provincially, Broadview is within the constituency of Moosomin served by their Member of legislative assembly, Steven Bonk.

[20] The Mainline Regional Economic Development Authority provides assistance and business advice for Broadview and the Rural Municipality of Elcapo No.

Broadview was the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1882, and later went on to become a major divisional point for the CPR.

The line ran through Wolseley, Summerberry, Grenfell, Oakshela, Broadview, it continued east through Percival, Whitewood and Burrows.

[31][32] Celebration Park comes equipped with baseball diamonds, tennis courts, rodeo ground, horseshoe pits, and a children's playground.

[33] The Broadview Historical Museum, which opened on July 15, 1972,[33] features the Highland One Room Schoolhouse[30] a reconstructed sod house, the Delorme family's one-room log cabin, extensive indoor and outdoor installations of numerous Cree and settler archives, artifacts, and war memorabilia,[34] including Sergeant Bill, "Saskatchewan's most famous goat".