Wooded areas, wetlands, sand dunes, and good beaches are some of the natural features found in this tract of former farmland on a peninsula of Lake Erie.

The lush fragrant Carolinian forests contain shagbark hickory, black locust, staghorn sumac, blue beech, and bur oak -- with tulip, sassafras, cucumber, and ginseng trees growing nearby.
The park is home to the opossum, the only marsupial found in Canada. Birds in the park include the killdeer, the Canada goose, the great blue heron, the cedar waxwing and the gray catbird.

Reptiles and amphibians such as the spotted turtle, blue racer snake, and woodhouse toad are found in the woods here. As well, the park is visited each September by throngs of monarch butterflies, readying themselves for their awesome migratory trek to Mexico where they hibernate on mountaintops during the winter.

Fossils imbedded in the limestone shelves along the shore, particularly in the southeast corner of the park, indicate that corals, bryozoans, and other reef organisms lived here in abundance during the Devonian geological period some 350 million years ago.

Five natural gas wells are located in the park, reminders of the days when such installations proved lucrative.