It protects outstanding water routes that provide recreational canoe camping opportunities.

[3] It used to have an area of 33.5 square kilometres (12.9 sq mi) and the park ended south of the Obabika River and Lower Goose Falls.

The river itself is 177 kilometres (110 mi) long and continues until it empties at the north shore of and into Lake Nipissing.

The town of Sturgeon Falls is located on the river about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of its mouth.

[4] The river features a continually changing landscape, from the Temagami highlands, with bedrock outcrops and long slender lakes to narrow river channels, rapids and shallows, eventually turning to sandy shores.