"Area B" on the National Register includes the custodian's residence, service building, and west entrance gates.

Built over a basement, it is an L-shaped building composed of random rubble and capped with an intersecting gable roof.

Other campground facilities include modern restrooms and showers, a holding tank dump station, and a playground.

[6] Gull Point State Park provides numerous opportunities for water recreation, from a beach and boat ramp to fishing.

The area's lakes, wetlands, and sloughs interspersed with knobby hills are a kettle-and-kame landscape created during the last glacial period.

Many of the lakes and wetlands formed around blocks of ice left embedded in the ground as glaciers melted back.

The shores of Gull Point are strewn with glacial erratics, igneous and metamorphic boulders from far to the north that were carried and dropped by the ice.

[7] A tradition has developed of young adults gathering for a massive party on the Gull Point State Park beach during the 4th of July holiday.

In 2010 the state government considered a ban on all alcohol on the 4th of July and adjacent weekends for Gull Point and nearby parks, soliciting public comment.

[10] Ultimately a governor-appointed commission within the Iowa Department of Natural Resources narrowly voted down the ban 4–3.

[11] Instead the multi-agency law enforcement presence has been increased, coupled with a parking ban on the entrance road to ensure access for emergency vehicles.