The peninsula is home to the former United States Navy base, NSGA Winter Harbor, which has been converted into a National Park Service training center.

A 3,300-acre (13 km2) resort development was proposed for land abutting Schoodic Peninsula's national park holdings to the north.

An anonymous donor eventually bought the entire 3,200-acre tract and built the Schoodic Woods Campground and miles of gravel bike paths before donating all of it to Acadia National Park.

The main feature is Schoodic Head, the highest point on the peninsula at 440 feet (130 m) above sea level.

More than 1,000 acres (400 ha) of the park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 in recognition of this contribution.

[6] The lighthouse viewable to the northwest of Schoodic Head, Mark Island's Winter Harbor Light Station, was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

[2] A United States Navy base, NSGA Winter Harbor, operated on Schoodic Point from 1935 to 2002.

[12] Two thirds of the land would be set aside as a green corridor off-limits to commercial development; plans for this portion have included carriage roads like those on the Mount Desert Island section of Acadia National Park.