[1] The park includes part of the Simpson Desert Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because it contains habitat suitable for Eyrean grasswrens.

Visitors are encouraged to visit from April to October to avoid extreme daytime temperatures and to travel within a two-vehicle party with long distance communications equipment.

[6] Increasing tourist numbers have been depleting wood supplies to the point that native fauna could be affected.

They survived in the dry conditions by digging soaks in the depressions between dunes, some of which were 7 metres (23 ft) deep.

David Lindsay was the first non-Aboriginal person to cross the central and southern areas of the Simpson Desert in 1886.

[4] As of July 2019[update], the Head Ranger of the park is Elder of the Wangkangurru people and traditional owner Don Rowlands OAM, residing in Birdsville.