The community contains a campground run by the National Park Service and a boat ramp.

Approximately 200,000 people visit Echo Bay annually.

[2] Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, used to frequent the Echo Bay marina before it closed in 2013, and the area is credited for being the inspiration for the name of the online auction marketplace.

He was said to have a fondness for the area and when asked about the reason behind the name choice, he said that Echo Bay "just sounded cool."

The web address echobay.com was already taken by a Canadian mining company at the time, so he went with his second choice of eBay.com.