Situated along the Sea to Sky Highway, park is 50 hectares in size, and offers picnicing, camping, swimming, windsurfing, and a boat launch.

Porteau Cove is a very popular area for scuba diving, with a series of artificial reefs including two sunken vessels.

The slide has renewed concerns about the geotechnical safety of the route, and was a security issue during the 2010 Olympics events in Whistler.

[4] If ever a landslide or avalanche occurs between Porteau Cove and Vancouver or Porteau Cove and Squamish, the BC Government could send in a ferry to detour cars around the slide to Darrell Bay Terminal in Squamish or to Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver.

Since slides occur so rarely on the Sea-to-Sky Highway, the dock is open to the public as a promenade wharf.