A portion of the park received further protection in 1981 when Belmont Mound Woods State Natural Area was added to the Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program. The park is for day-use only; there are picnic facilities but no campground. The observation tower was closed in 2019 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources due to three suicides and misuse of the tower a decade earlier.[1] In the fall of 2021, the removal of the observation tower was completed.[2] The First Capitol Historic Site, where the first session of the Wisconsin Territory Legislature met beginning on October 25, 1836, is located just west of the park entrance.