It is a popular tourist destination in the summer months, and is also the site of the annual La Cloche Art Show.

A reunion of the popular Canadian CBC TV show Adventures in Rainbow Country was held here in August 2006.

George Smyth of Ice Lake on the Manitoulin island, who worked for McDermid, made all the cement blocks by hand.

[3] In 2018, Ontario Northland announced a major service expansion west of Sudbury, which included Whitefish Falls as a flag stop.

Ernest was a Forest Ranger and he and Ada used to portage canoes through the back lakes as far as Killarney checking the area for fires.

Before Cameron’s opened a store in Whitefish Falls, Ernest would canoe and portage to Espanola to purchase supplies for his family.

The Willis, Golden & other children from Willisville would walk along a path to the horseshoe curve and down the track to Whitefish Falls to attend school.

One day, while he was looking out to spot forest fires from the tower's cupola, he saw a herd of elephants at the bottom of the mountain trail.

World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis and singer Bing Crosby are known to have visited the tower and signed its guestbook.

The tower can also be seen in the 1960s Canadian television series Adventures in Rainbow Country, which was filmed in the Willisville-Whitefish Falls area.