The park protects the Pilica river valley with its most valuable natural surrounding areas. It covers an area of 13,110 ha, while the outer and inner buffer zones are 24,134 ha. Its borders are mostly forests and arable lands. It was the third landscape park in the then Piotrków Voivodeship. Together with the Sulejowski Landscape Park and the Przedborski Landscape Park, it belongs to the Complex of Nadpiliczne Landscape Parks.
The Spała Landscape Park was established in 1995. In its area and in the buffer zone, there are nature reserves: Konewka, Spała, Żądłowice, Jeleń, Sługocice and Gać Spalska. In the park you can find, among others a European bison breeding center, natural monuments and valuable monuments of material culture.
During the partitions, the Russian tsars hunted in the local forests. During World War II, the Spała Forests were the site of numerous partisan battles. The famous major Hubal died in the forest near Anielin.