[4] During the 1920s, the Canadian Robert Dollar Company of Dollarton logged the lower slopes of Burke Mountain with a steam railway.

Rail lines snaked in from Port Moody along the sidehill of Westwood slope, across the Coquitlam River on a trestle bridge and up to the timber on Burke Mountain.

North of Widgeon Lake, an area called Five Fingers was of interest to early hikers, and where many first ascents were recorded.

[5] Old forgotten steam donkeys and mine tunnels are a remnant of past resource extraction in the park.

[6] In the late 1980s and early 1990s there were proposals from logging companies to increase harvesting rates of trees in the park area.

A management plan is now in development in collaboration with BC Parks, the city of Coquitlam and the Katzie First Nation.

Pinecone Burke Provincial Park has diverse ecosystems that support various animal and plant species.

These fish include Pacific salmon, cutthroat and steelhead trout, and the migratory Dolly Varden char.

[16] There are currently six animal species found in the park that are labelled as sensitive or vulnerable: the blue heron, tailed frog, shrew mole, Vaux's swift, Huttons' vireo, and the Pacific Jumping mouse.

Community members have used iNaturalist to record sightings of fungi such as hair ice (found to form when Exidiopsis effusa is present), the common bonnet and the turkey-tail.

[17] Plant species include licorices and western sword ferns, vine maple, bearberry, swamp currant and bog Labrador tea.

Trees such as the western hemlock, Douglas fir, bigleaf maple and red alder are some of the main species that grow in the park.

[5] Visitors to the park can canoe to trailheads and campsites from the waters of the Widgeon Valley and Pitt Lake.