Mount Revelstoke National Park wraps around the mountain that rises directly behind the town, offering a remarkable transition from Columbia River bottomlands to alpine tundra within a short drive. The park's signature experience is the Meadows in the Sky Parkway, a 26-kilometre road that climbs from near the Trans-Canada Highway to the summit ridge at 1,938 metres. In August the meadows are carpeted with alpine wildflowers — columbines, paintbrush, heather — and the views across the Columbia Valley and the Selkirk peaks are exceptional.
The lower elevations of the park hold some of the finest old-growth western red cedar forest in Canada. The Giant Cedars Boardwalk near the Trans-Canada is a short (500m) loop through trees over 500 years old and several metres in diameter, quiet and dark even on a bright day. The Skunk Cabbage Boardwalk crosses the Columbia bottomlands in the other direction, through a wetland bright with skunk cabbage flowers in spring.
Hiking trails range from the short boardwalks to the 67-kilometre Jade Lakes trail system. Bears are common; carry bear spray.