Attractions in the state park include the Flume Gorge[4] and visitor center,[5] the Old Man of the Mountain historical site,[6] fishing in Echo Lake and Profile Lake, and miles of hiking, biking and ski trails.

It boasts an aerial tram, which runs year-round, ferrying sightseers to the summit in the summer time and skiers in the winter.

Beneath a waterfall in the Pemigewasset River is a granite pothole about 20 feet (6 m) across known simply as "the Basin".

It was scrubbed out by stones dragged (and eventually deposited) by the retreating North American ice sheet, and since made smooth by 15 millennia of rapidly whirling pebbles and grit.

Below the Basin is "Old Man's Foot", a distinctively shaped rock formation, also the natural result of Pemigewasset's erosive energy.