The park includes trails, picnic groves, boat ramps, an observation tower, and an open air Chapel-by-the-Sea.

[2] Beginning in 1905, Samuel P. Colt purchased and consolidated the Chase, Church and Van Wickle farms.

[3] He built a summer house, the "Casino," on the grounds as well as a magnificent stone barn to accommodate a prize herd of Jersey cattle.

A pair of life-size bull statues, named Conrad and Pomeroy, stand guard at the main entrance gate on Hope Street.

The marble bases which support the bronze bulls are believed to have been modeled after the approach gates to French King Louis XV's château Petit Trianon at Versailles and were unveiled in 1913.