[2] However, in September 2021, the cricket ground was stripped of its first-class status due to drainage issues.

The park co-hosted (along with Southland Boys' High School) the 2006 State Twenty20 Cricket Knock-Out Tournament, on 10–12 November 2006.

The final round of the tournament was set to be played at Queens Park but due to bad weather only 4 of the scheduled 9 matches took place.

The weekly Saturday Invercargill parkrun takes place at Queens Park.

[4][5] In July 2020, the Invercargill parkrun become one of the first in the world to resume after Covid-19 halted the weekly event in early 2020.