The park has a deer paddock, a stream, a small lake and hundreds of trees, including some that are rare at this latitude.
Neighborhoods bordering the park include Cadwalader Heights, Hiltonia, Hillcrest and Parkside.
The park contains a memorial to the fallen of the Civil War and the column of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, erected in 1903.
[2] At one time this included a number of artillery pieces, now reduced to the plinthed barrel of the 'Swamp Angel', an 8 inch breech-loading Parrott rifle used to bombard Charleston in 1863.
[3][4] The park also contains a seated bronze statue of Trenton engineer John A. Roebling, erected in 1908.