[2] The highest point within the park zone is the Peñón del Majalijar in the Sierra de Cogollos, at 1,889 metres (6,198 ft).

[3] It contains the Arboretum La Alfaguara, formerly a tree nursery that supplied mainly coniferous plants for the reforestation of the entire Sierra de Huétor.

It contains the villages of Víznar, Huétor Santillán and Beas de Granada, with a total human population of about 10,000.

From Víznar and Huétor-Santillán there are magnificent views of the Sierra Nevada National Park to the east and south.

In an effort to stabilize the land in the last century the mountain slopes were planted with Aleppo, Laricio and Austrian pines, now the dominant types of tree.

The higher-altitude oak woods harbor shrubs beneath the trees that include Spanish barberry, hedgehog broom various species of dog roses.

[5] The blue lysandra bellargus ssp alfacariensis butterfly is endemic to the region, first discovered in the Sierra de Huétor.