From the summit on a clear day, the Pacific Ocean is visible along with peaks in the Klamath Mountains and Cascade Range.

John Hart, in his book Hiking the Bigfoot Country says of the peak: At a mile and some above sea level it is by no means the highest peak in the Klamath Mountains...Yet there is no mountain in northern California which I remember with more pleasure.

They say that early travellers on the Klamath River, glimpsing the mountain above them, thought it was 10,000 feet tall.The Forest Service designated the peak and watershed around the peak the Preston Peak Botanical and Geological Area because of the rare plants and associations of plants that can be found.

Here the Alaska cedar and noble fir reach the southern terminus of their range[4] and share habitat with the northwest California endemic Brewer spruce and Port Orford cedar.

[5] A few other rare plants living on or around the peak are the phantom orchid and Siskiyou fritillary.