[1][3] The state park offers a sandy beach with lifeguard-supervised swimming, kayaking, limited motorized boating, hiking trails, and fishing.

[4] The park was created after the State Park and Recreation Commission acquired over 500 acres of land bordering Lower Range Pond in 1965 from Hiram Ricker and Sons, bottlers of Poland Spring Water.

These species of angling interest prey on native rainbow smelt and stocked alewife.

There is no spawning or nursery habitat for brook trout, but the species is regularly stocked for angling.

Black crappie were illegally introduced to the middle pond in the early 21st century.