Various designers have been involved in the construction of the park including Charles Weston, Lindsay Pryor, Richard Clough and John Grey.

The park in it current form was strongly influenced by a master plan created by British landscape designer, Dame Sylvia Crowe in 1964.

The park has many small ponds and water features, walking trails, bike paths, sculptures and memorials.

In 1874, Ebenezer Booth built himself a house on the glebe of St John the Baptist Church, within the present boundaries of the park, to the east of what is now Nerang Pool.

In his original plan for the city, Walter Griffin included a recreation area to the north of the man-made lake.

Traced on the globe are the routes of Cook’s three voyages of exploration, with explanations of his ports of call inscribed on the surrounding handrail.