The State Park's centerpiece is the pretty canyon formed by Keesey Creek, which often flows during the summer rainy season. It is wooded with Emory oaks, gray oaks, pinion and juniper. Bird life is especially abundant in the park, and a pack of javelinas occasionally forages in the underbrush, apparently oblivious to park visitors. Camping and entrance fees vary. Indian Lodge, the pueblo-style adobe hotel built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, offers pleasant accommodations, a pool, landscaped grounds and patios, and a modest restaurant.
Some rooms have hand-made furniture.
Indian Lodge has 39 rooms, which are often booked months in advance. Just a mile or so from downtown, Fort Davis National Historic Site, along Texas Hwys. The first African American graduate of West Point Military Academy was stationed here shortly after the Civil War as the Quartermaster. He was later Courts-Martialed here and finally, posthumously, vindicated, and his good name restored by President Jimmy Carter. The site is well maintained and thoughtfully restored with interpretive and historical displays, an excellent book shop and a museum.