[11] A portion of the Bomboko Forest Reserve remains outside the park, on the lower northern slopes of the mountain.

[7] In respect of it being 'one of the few volcanoes in the world located at the ocean-continent boundary in a passive tectonic margin', the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) included 'The Quaternary Cameroon Volcano' in its assemblage of 100 'geological heritage sites' around the world in a listing published in October 2022.

The annual Mount Cameroon Race of Hope scales the peak in around 4½ hours.

Sarah Etonge has won the race seven times and is also a tour operator.

English explorer Mary Kingsley, one of the first Europeans to scale the mountain, recounts her expedition in her 1897 memoir Travels in West Africa.