Facilities for exercising include fitness equipment and jogging-cum-cycling tracks.

Bus stops along Kallang Road and Crawford Street are within walking distance of the park.

A public car park is situated at the end of Kampong Bugis.

Based on the Cho Clan Archives, Raffles ordered his ship's carpenter, Chow Ah Chi, to lead the way in posting the British East India Company flag on mainland Singapore and he supposedly landed at the mouth of the Rochor River in Kallang.

[2][3] In June 15, 2005, one of the major and brutal cases in Singapore known as the Kallang River body parts murder took place here.