It features the Topeka Zoo, the Kansas Children's Discovery Center, a miniature train of 15 in (381 mm) gauge, the Helen Hocker Theater, the Blaisdell family aquatic center, and the Reinisch Rose Garden.

[2] George Kessler prepared the first plan between 1899 and 1901, city horticulturist Anton Reinisch continuing the work.

[3] Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church began their anti-gay crusade in 1991 with what they called "The Great Gage Park Decency Drive", seeking a crack down on homosexuals cruising for sex in the park.

At the time, the church circulated a flyer, "Gage Park Sodomite Rats Nest".

[4] Gage Park was featured in the beginning of the 1997 Stephen King novel The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, with Reinisch garden, the zoo, and the train being mentioned.