It provides recreation opportunities for visitors, habitat for fish and wildlife, and resources for local industry.

During the Great Depression land was bought by the U.S. Forest Service to help farmers and landowners and to inject money into the economy.

The Huron National Forest is prone to frequent seasonal forest fires, due to ecological and geological factors including the domination of the jack pine in sections the forests, the needles of which are extremely flammable,[2] sandy soil composition as a result of glacial outwash plain geology of sections of the Huron National Forest,[3] and jack pine barrens management practices to create nesting habitat for the Kirtland's warbler resulting in dense, young stands of jack pine that are extremely susceptible to crowning wildfires.

[5] The Bull Gap ORV Trail is located in the Huron National Forest.

The threatened Kirtland's warbler nests in the area, and tours are available, subject to time restrictions.