diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 472dde6a0..3ede7919d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@
 
   - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/265>
 
+- Add methods to access raster masks and get raster mask flags. (`open_mask_band`, `create_mask_band`, and `mask_flags`).
+
+  - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/285>
+
 - Remove `PartialEq` from `GdalError`
 
   - <https://github.com/georust/gdal/pull/286>
diff --git a/src/raster/rasterband.rs b/src/raster/rasterband.rs
index 76c387b9a..0c8002202 100644
--- a/src/raster/rasterband.rs
+++ b/src/raster/rasterband.rs
@@ -50,6 +50,37 @@ fn map_resample_alg(alg: &ResampleAlg) -> u32 {
     }
 }
 
+/// Wrapper type for gdal mask flags.
+/// From the GDAL docs:
+/// - `GMF_ALL_VALID`(0x01): There are no invalid pixels, all mask values will be 255. When used this will normally be the only flag set.
+/// - `GMF_PER_DATASET`(0x02): The mask band is shared between all bands on the dataset.
+/// - `GMF_ALPHA`(0x04): The mask band is actually an alpha band and may have values other than 0 and 255.
+/// - `GMF_NODATA`(0x08): Indicates the mask is actually being generated from nodata values. (mutually exclusive of `GMF_ALPHA`)
+pub struct GdalMaskFlags(i32);
+
+impl GdalMaskFlags {
+    const GMF_ALL_VALID: i32 = 0x01;
+    const GMF_PER_DATASET: i32 = 0x02;
+    const GMF_ALPHA: i32 = 0x04;
+    const GMF_NODATA: i32 = 0x08;
+
+    pub fn is_all_valid(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0 & Self::GMF_ALL_VALID != 0
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_per_dataset(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0 & Self::GMF_PER_DATASET != 0
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_alpha(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0 & Self::GMF_ALPHA != 0
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_nodata(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0 & Self::GMF_NODATA != 0
+    }
+}
+
 /// Extra options used to read a raster.
 ///
 /// For documentation, see `gdal_sys::GDALRasterIOExtraArg`.
@@ -498,6 +529,41 @@ impl<'a> RasterBand<'a> {
 
         _string(str_ptr)
     }
+
+    /// Read the band mask flags for a GDAL `RasterBand`.
+    pub fn mask_flags(&self) -> Result<GdalMaskFlags> {
+        let band_mask_flags = unsafe { gdal_sys::GDALGetMaskFlags(self.c_rasterband) };
+
+        Ok(GdalMaskFlags(band_mask_flags))
+    }
+
+    /// Create a new mask band for the layer.
+    /// `shared_between_all_bands` indicates if all bands of the dataset use the same mask.
+    pub fn create_mask_band(&mut self, shared_between_all_bands: bool) -> Result<()> {
+        let flags = if shared_between_all_bands {
+            GdalMaskFlags::GMF_PER_DATASET // It is the only valid flag here.
+        } else {
+            0x00
+        };
+
+        let rv = unsafe { gdal_sys::GDALCreateMaskBand(self.c_rasterband, flags) };
+        if rv != 0 {
+            return Err(_last_cpl_err(rv));
+        };
+        Ok(())
+    }
+
+    /// Open the mask-`Rasterband`
+    pub fn open_mask_band(&self) -> Result<RasterBand> {
+        unsafe {
+            let mask_band_ptr = gdal_sys::GDALGetMaskBand(self.c_rasterband);
+            if mask_band_ptr.is_null() {
+                return Err(_last_null_pointer_err("GDALGetMaskBand"));
+            }
+            let mask_band = RasterBand::from_c_rasterband(self.dataset, mask_band_ptr);
+            Ok(mask_band)
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 impl<'a> MajorObject for RasterBand<'a> {
diff --git a/src/raster/tests.rs b/src/raster/tests.rs
index 43ffdd37a..9d7be8fde 100644
--- a/src/raster/tests.rs
+++ b/src/raster/tests.rs
@@ -406,6 +406,38 @@ fn test_read_raster_as() {
     assert_eq!(rb.band_type(), GDALDataType::GDT_Byte);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn mask_flags() {
+    let dataset = Dataset::open(fixture!("tinymarble.png")).unwrap();
+    let rb = dataset.rasterband(1).unwrap();
+    let mask_flags = rb.mask_flags().unwrap();
+    assert!(!mask_flags.is_nodata());
+    assert!(!mask_flags.is_alpha());
+    assert!(!mask_flags.is_per_dataset());
+    assert!(mask_flags.is_all_valid());
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn open_mask_band() {
+    let dataset = Dataset::open(fixture!("tinymarble.png")).unwrap();
+    let rb = dataset.rasterband(1).unwrap();
+    let mb = rb.open_mask_band().unwrap();
+    let mask_values = mb.read_as::<u8>((20, 30), (2, 3), (2, 3), None).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(mask_values.data, [255u8; 6])
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn create_mask_band() {
+    let driver = Driver::get_by_name("MEM").unwrap();
+    let dataset = driver.create("", 20, 10, 1).unwrap();
+    let mut rb = dataset.rasterband(1).unwrap();
+    rb.create_mask_band(false).unwrap();
+
+    let mb = rb.open_mask_band().unwrap();
+    let mask_values = mb.read_as::<u8>((0, 0), (20, 10), (20, 10), None).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(mask_values.data, [0; 200])
+}
+
 #[test]
 #[cfg(feature = "ndarray")]
 fn test_read_raster_as_array() {