The park is situated 120 kilometres (75 mi) east of Esperance[3] and lies on the shore of the south coast from the eastern end of the Recherche Archipelago.

Pioneer graziers arrived in the area in the 1870s and the ruins of homesteads, dams and buildings as well as gravesites can be found near Pine Hill and Thomas Fishery.

The highest point of the park is Tower Peak, located within the Range, which reaches a height of 594 metres (1,949 ft).

Some of the birds found in the park include: the western ground parrot, the Australasian bittern, Carnaby's cockatoo and Cape Barren geese.

[18] Fauna that can be found include the western brush wallaby, quenda, the southern bush rat, many small marsupial predators and a variety of reptiles and amphibians.

Species of orchid and ferns exist near Mount Ragged including a small population of the sticky-tail flower (Anthocersis viscosa).