[2][3] The park is located along the banks of Cayuga Creek in both the village and town of Lancaster, approximately 14 miles (23 km) east of the city of Buffalo.

[2] It is operated by the Erie County Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry.

[1] Como Lake Park, named after the Lake Como tourist resort in Italy, was originally established by the village of Lancaster in 1923 and acquired by Erie County in 1926 as the result of a special village election.

[1][2] The park at that time was 120 acres (0.49 km2) in size, and grew to its current 534-acre (2.16 km2) extent through land acquisitions in the years that followed.

Many of the park's facilities and stone structures were built or improved by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.