[1][2] The station is situated near the village of Boot in the civil parish of Eskdale and the Lake District National Park.

It lies between the Whillan Beck, a tributary of the River Esk, and the road from Ravenglass to Windermere, via the Hardknott and Wrynose passes.

For about 80 years, the station building was a converted second-hand hut from the weapons testing establishment at Eskmeals near Ravenglass.

The tracks terminate at a turntable at the eastern extremity of the line, where locomotives can be seen detaching from the rolling stock and coupling onto the other end for the return journey to Ravenglass.

[5] The upper level of the station building fronts platform 1 and houses the Fellbites Eatery and Scafell Gift Shop (which also acts as a booking office) that are open when the railway are running scheduled passenger trains.