The reserve offers extensive game-viewing facilities, guided walks, environmental education, and three picnic sites.

Inappropriate practices resulted in severe soil erosion, and in 1948 the farm was expropriated by the Department of Agriculture.

[1] Vegetation types include Dry Tall Grassveld, Mixed Thornveld and Valley Bushveld.

The Dry Tall Grassveld is generally sparse, dominated by Hyparrhenia hirta and encroached by woody species.

[1] Rangelands are managed through the strategic use of fire and the control of herbivore numbers; blue wildebeest, impala and warthog were intentionally excluded when the reserve was stocked because their grazing habits can cause soil erosion.