History
Ann Arbor's city parks sit on the ancestral and traditional homelands of several indigenous Native peoples. Read a land acknowledgement from the city and learn more about the early history of the land here.
The park was donated in 2007 by the Crary family. Douglas Crary bought the land next to his home on Cambridge Road over 45 years ago, after a fire burned down the house on the site. Crary was a University of Michigan Geography professor, who also served on the Ann Arbor City Council and the City of Ann Arbor Planning Commission. He not only preserved the land as open greenspace, but also provided an area for his neighbors and the public to enjoy. Doug Crary passed away in 2006. In 2007, his daughters generously offered this land to the City of Ann Arbor to become a city park. On Dec. 28, 2007, the City of Ann Arbor accepted this land as part of the city's park system.
