Thirteen sites have water and sewer service. The campground has a softball diamond with spectator seating, a small playground, cooking facilities, grassy open space, hiking trails,drinking fountains, and three large picnic areas. The park also includes a beach area with a lifeguard and bathhouse on the reservoir created by the power dam on the Dead River. The reservoir provides excellent canoeing and fishing opportunities with northern pike and panfish being the most common catch. Several species of trout and salmon are the most sought after downstream.
Tourist Park is the site of the annual Hiawatha Music Festival.
The shoreline bike path runs through the park and an illuminated walkway with period style lighting parallels the waterfront along the bulkhead. Fishing opportunities also exist with the fishing occurring predominately in the spring and fall for coho and chinook salmon and rainbow, lake, and brown trout. The 101 slip Cinder Pond Marine, completed in 1995, is located immediately east of the park. Shiras Park Shiras Park is located on the shore of Lake Superior, the bulk and northernmost part of which accommodates the area known as Picnic Rocks near the intersection of Lakeshore Boulevard and East Fair Street. The Picnic Rocks area has restrooms, grassy open space, benches, cooking facilities, picnic tables, a drinking fountain, and paved and graveled parking lots.