There is a lake in the park with geese and ducks, and the Calderstones Mansion House, which features a café and a children's play area.

[3] The Calderstones are six neolithic sandstone monoliths that formed part of a burial monument 4,000 years ago.

[11] Its dilapidated state is said to be due to the explosion of the gunpowder ship Lottie Sleigh over three miles away on the River Mersey in 1864.

[14] After World War II, Percy Conn, the new Superintendent of Liverpool Parks, had the vision to recreate the Liverpool Botanic Garden of William Roscoe and John Shepherd from the Mount Pleasant days, in the Harthill Estate grounds at Calderstones Park.

[3] As funding was very tight post-war, low-grade spruce, rather than teak, was used to build the glasshouses, and by 1979 they had reached the end of their useful lives, but no money was available to rebuild them.

[2] The dry nature reserve, created on the site of a council works depot, was featured on the BBC 2 programme Gardeners' World on 15 March 2024.