Hell’s Gate National Park provides a variety of wildlife, unusual flora, and many species of birds and the place is one of the only two Kenyan parks where climbing, walking, and biking are allowed. Animals seen here include bushbucks, dikdiks, gazelles, gnus, hartebeests, impalas, klipspringers, buffaloes, hyraxes, zebras, hyenas, jackals, mongooses, baboons, monkeys, and porcupines among others. The park has historically been an important home for the rare lammergeyer vultures. Over 103 species of birds have been recorded in this park including vultures, Verreaux's eagles.
There is a lot of easy things to see the game such as giraffes, waterbucks, elands, wildebeests, zebras, and impalas. It is also a haven for birds with over 200 species recorded. Among, the resident birds are fish eagles, ospreys, lily-trotters, black crakes, and a variety of herons. Hippos also live in the lake. A number of mammals can be seen grazing in the surrounding lake environments such as zebras, impalas, buffalos, giraffes, Kongonis and at night, hippos.