It is also home to a summer program operated by the City of Omaha Parks and Recreation Department.

[2] The site was soon covered with buildings, boulevards, and a beautiful lagoon almost 1/2 mile long, lit by the latest technology of the times, electrical lights.

Around the park a middle- and upper-class community grew, eventually forming a connection between Near North Omaha and Saratoga.

In 1980, while excavating for a new sewer in Kountze Park, a construction foreman uncovered several pieces of a building from the Exposition.

In 1998 many improvements to Kountze Park were made, including new playground equipment, tree plantings and a historical marker that pays homage to the Exposition.