Climbing to the mountain peak takes two days and offers flowery landscapes in spring and colourful forests of cedar oaks and junipers in autumn.

The Berber village of Imlil, surrounded by mountains, is a stop point to immerse oneself in the dwellers' simple lives.

[1][2] In October 2012 Salafists were blamed for destroying an 8,000-year-old petroglyph within the park that depicted the Sun as a divinity.

[3][4] The park has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of Barbary partridges, Levaillant's woodpeckers, subalpine, Sardinian, spectacled and Tristram's warblers, Moussier's redstarts, and black-eared and black wheatears.

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