Mount Revelstoke is part of a string of mountain national parks along the Canadian Pacific Railway corridor including Banff, Yoho, and Glacier.

The last event was held in 1971, and the ski area was converted to a trail system for hiking and downhill mountain biking.

The park's inland rainforest also has an isolated population of banana slugs which marks the easternmost boundary of their distribution in British Columbia.

This national park protects a small herd of the threatened caribou as well as providing habitats for cougars, grizzly bears, lynxes, black bears, red foxes, moose, martens, coyotes, a variety of bats, timber wolves, several species of shrews, voles, mice, wolverines, and mountain goats.

A variety of wildflowers grow in the park, some of which include Arctic lupine, glacier lily, pink mountain heather, willowherb, and spotted saxifrage.

interpretive trail that leads through valley bottom rainforest and fragile wetlands inhabited by muskrats, beavers, bears and the strange skunk cabbage plant.

Exhibits also help to identify the many birds that migrate from South and Central America to the Skunk Cabbage area each year.