Prospect Park (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

The park is one block from Ypsilanti's historic Depot Town, where the YpsiFest and many car shows are hosted in the summer.

Beginning in 1891, a group of local women raised funds to move the bodies — around 250 — to Highland Cemetery and transform Prospect Cemetery into Prospect Park, complete with a lake (Luna Lake) with a fountain, a bandstand, and a dance pavilion.

[2] The park made international headlines in 2013 and 2014 after a series of pranks in which a person repeatedly defecated on the same playground slide over a several month period.

The mayor of Ypsilanti, Martin Dawson, learning that it was to be replaced, applied to get it for Carpenter Post of the G.A.R.

[9] Students from the school use the park playground equipment at recess, during which access to Oak Street is closed.