The setting of coastal headlands, rocky shores, beaches, wetlands, fields, and forest offers a variety of habitats.
Visitors can explore and enjoy walking trails, drives, overlooks, and picnic areas.
To the west of the cottage grounds is Friar's Head, where the Park Commission maintains a picnic and observation area with splendid views of the islands and shores of the bays. Both the Friar's Head observation deck and the Eagle Hill Bog pathway accommodate wheelchairs. The Roosevelt Campobello International Park Natural Area was purchased by the Commission to protect the Roosevelt Cottage and its surroundings from commercial and other development. It comprises much that was characteristic of Campobello and fascinating to the Roosevelts and other summer residents of that era. The scenic values, uncrowded conditions, cool forest trails, rocky coves, and balsam-scented forests are as attractive today as they were to FDR's parents, and later to Franklin and his family.