Located within a Canadian national park, the hotel is near several major landmarks and local attractions.

An admirer of the Blackfoot culture, he prominently used native imagery as a marketing tool for his company.

[5] However, in an effort to place the focus of the room on the nature outside, McMahon designed a lobby for the Prince of Wales completely different from its templates.

The lobby for the Prince of Wales Hotel is perpendicular to the length of the building, and incorporates two-storey windows facing Upper Lake Waterton.

[6] Other rustic elements within the hotel, including natural wood detailing, and a timber-framed lobby, with open spaces ascending to the building's roof.

[1] Early into the hotel's construction, the pace which Oland and Scott's crews worked outpaced the rate at which McMahon could produce new designs.

[8] This includes its tiers of continuous balconies with balustrades, large bracket supports for the balconies, steep pitched gable roofs, intersecting gables, two-storey dormers, a lantern cupola, and its brightly contrasting walls.

[9] The hotel also hosts food-services in the building, including the Royal Stewart Dining Hall.

[10] The formal dining hall features large windows overlooking Upper Lake Waterton, and hosts the restaurant's afternoon tea.

[12] The hotel was constructed between 1926 and 1927 and was built by the Great Northern Railway of the United States to lure American tourists during the prohibition era.

In September 2017 a major wildfire which consumed one third of the park stopped mere metres from the Prince of Wales Hotel.