Located northeast of the junction of Louis and McGillivray Creeks,[2] it is part of the upland area between the Interior Plateau (W) and the Monashee Mountains (E) known as the Shuswap Highland, the mountain is the highest of three summits comprising the Sun Peaks alpine ski resort.

His retirement home in Victoria, on which he began construction in 1850, is the oldest inhabited house in British Columbia.

Skwelkwekwelt was known as a place where moose and deer meat was dried to last through the winter.

As of 2012, a Shuswap website notes, "Many roots and medicines were harvested by the people at Skwelkwekwelt.

This traditional use area is being destroyed by major expansion to the Sun Peaks Ski resort and by logging.