The park's amenities include twelve tennis courts, a baseball field, two softball fields, children's playgrounds, fitness zones, group picnic shelters, outdoor kitchens, horseshoe pits, a senior center, and a community center.
Known as "The Hiker", it is one of 52 other identical statues created by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson scattered around the United States between 1921 and 1956.
The bronze peafowl sculpture that can be seen atop the stone pedestal in the fountain's center was installed in 2002 and adds an additional five feet to its height.
After the war ended in 1918, the roughly 3,500 soldiers of the balloon training school began to vacate Ross Field.
Through an act of Congress in 1935, The War Department returned the land to Los Angeles County with the provision that a park be built in its place.
[10] On May 26, 2016, the city of Arcadia unveiled a monument near the northeast corner of the park in honor of the 14 local servicemen killed in the Vietnam War.