The first area, commemorative in nature, is a Texas granite monolith surrounded by a serpentine pattern of walks and trails.

The trails are shaded by a grove of hundreds of white pine and dogwood trees, and framed by azaleas and rhododendron.

Visitors may listen to a recording made by Lady Bird Johnson at the entrance to the park facing The Pentagon.

Soon after, Johnson's admirers proposed constructing a statue in Washington, D.C., in his memory, but concern that it would be defaced led to rejection of that idea.

Landscape architect Meade Palmer designed the grove, which included a contemplative meadow and a small granite plaza among some trees.

[6] The grove covered 15 acres (61,000 m2), and would be planted with white pine, dogwood trees, and flowering shrubs and bushes.