[1] It is located on a nearly five-acre, 1,400 feet long strip of land between the Milwaukee River and the former Chicago and North Western Railway, now converted into part of the Oak Leaf Trail.

It was named for William J. Hubbard, a former Village Board president.

This riverside site has been home to a resort and a series of amusement parks.

Prior to the park's 1922 purchase by Shorewood Village President William J. Hubbard, the land had been used as an Indian hunting grounds, a resort (Ludemnann's-on-the-River), a mineral spring park, an amusement park, a terminal yard, cow barns, fishing shanties, and a distribution route for ice cut from the river.

These state-funded workers also graded and terraced the land, created pathways and a spring-fed pool and fountain.