After partially closing in 2020 due to extensive renovations, the park reopened to the public on August 18, 2023.
[1] The 31-acre (130,000 m2) park is situated between Interstate 80 and the Missouri River, and is adjacent to Gene Leahy Mall and the Old Market and connects to Lewis & Clark Landing.
Lewis and Clark reportedly discovered conspicuous earthen mounds when they explored the location in 1804.
[3] Opened in 1990, the park was built on recovered after the controversial demolition of the Jobbers Canyon Historic District.
There is also a monument to the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition, and the late 1800s Waterworks Fountain, once located at the Webster Station, a railroad depot in North Omaha.