The state park's 470 acres (190 ha) incorporate the entire shoreline of the reservoir, which is abutted by the Warren Conference Center and Inn[3] of Framingham State University, town-owned land once the site of Camp Winnetaska (a Girl Scouts camp),[4] and residential houses.

[10] Efforts by state workers in October 1988 to temporarily lower the level of the reservoir in order to expand the beach resulted in a larger than expected release of water, causing basement flooding in two Ashland homes.

[11] Elements of the reservoir were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990 as Ashland Dam and Spillway.

[12] The park was unstaffed from 2009 through 2012 due to budget cuts and reopened in 2013 with funding to restore facilities that had deteriorated during the shutdown.

The park has wheelchair-accessible restrooms, picnic grounds and swimming beach in addition to a ramp for motorized and non-motorized boating and fishing.