The rest of the park includes several ponds, groves of ash, cedar, pine, and eucalyptus, maple, and redwood trees as well as picnic areas, tennis courts and a Southern Pacific train engine.

The Fresno Traction Company constructed a Roeding Park branch line, completed in 1912, to transport visitors there by trolley.

Members of Fresno's Rotary club raised funds to build Playland amusement park in 1955, and Storyland was added in 1962.

While in Roeding Park, it was re-dedicated as the Fort Miller Blockhouse Museum where relics of early Fresno County history and other exhibits are contained in the building, which is listed on the local register of historic places.

A qualified Architectural Historian meeting the Secretary of Interior Professional Qualification Standards conducted the 2009 Roeding Park survey.

The tax allowed for the hiring of Donna Fernandes from the Buffalo Zoo as the new director in 2005, but she left after only 3 months to return to her previous job.