It is located about halfway along the town's mile-long Shore Path, overlooking Frenchman Bay.

Balance Rock, deposited during an ice age, is located on the shore beside the path.

It occupied the grassed area between today's parking lot and the Shore Path.

In 1912, fourteen years after Grant's death, his widow, Julia Schoonmaker Grant, sold the property to a syndicate of local men who subsequently sold it to the Town of Bar Harbor.

The Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association took the park into its care, and had Grant's house moved to another part of town.