[1] It was named for Charles E. Estabrook, a distinguished Wisconsin lawyer and politician,[2] and is located on a nearly 125 acre, strip of land between the Milwaukee River and the former Chicago and North Western Railway, now converted into part of the Oak Leaf Trail.

In 1937 Milwaukee County constructed a dam at the park to raise water levels for recreational purposes.

[5] It is reported to contain panfish, trout, goldfish, chinese mystery snail, and Eurasian watermilfoil.

[6] There have also been sightings, depending on the season, of painted turtles, red-eared sliders, common snapping turtles, muskrats, American bullfrogs, American toads, Canada geese, mallards, wood ducks, blue-winged teals, great blue herons, green herons, red-breasted mergansers, hooded mergansers, pied-billed grebes, ring-billed gulls, and belted kingfishers in and on the water.

Canada geese, mallards, and wood ducks have been observed to lay eggs, incubate them, and hatch broods of goslings and ducklings.