It is a recreation-class provincial park created to help preserve the fragile beach dune ecology.

In 2006 Pancake Bay Provincial Park received an extension as part of Ontario's Living Legacy and now comprises 17.23 square kilometres (6.65 sq mi).

[3] The park office is located on Ontario Highway 17 just past of the Agawa Crafts and Store (as coming from Sault Ste.

Senior staff, including the superintendent, can be reached at the park office between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm during summer months.

Two comfort stations are located in the main campground equipped with showers, laundry facilities and flush toilets.

There is an amphitheater located in the campground and presentations by the park naturalists occur every weekend during the summer months.

The ecology of the region is characteristic of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence transition forest, but is a northern shelter for more southerly flora and fauna.

Along the Pancake Bay Nature Trail, you can find evidence of beach ridge succession over the millennia, a large conglomerate boulder believed to have been brought by glaciers, and a beautiful and ecologically sensitive fen (a type of wetland).

From the Lookout Trail one can view a panorama of the Canadian Shield, and from the Edmund Fitzgerald Lake Superior Lookout along that trail one can see to the west the area of Lake Superior where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a fierce November storm in 1975.