During the 1980s, Dublin Corporation, along with local residents, developed the park and planted seeds, trees, and tall grasses.

[3] During the Wood Quay build and excavation in the early 1980s, up to 30 lorry loads of potentially significant archaeological rubble were dumped in the original location of the nature park.

An offroad path located on Beach Road, opposite Marine Drive, meanders across the edge of Sandymount Strand for 1.4 kilometres up to the park entrance.

Many species of birds including skylarks, linnets, dunnocks, stonechats, herons, and Brent geese[5] visit the park every year.

The park is also home to the Pyramidal orchid, red-tailed bumblebee, and a rare beetle, Oedemera lurida.