Russian Jack Springs Park

[1] The park comprises two quarter-sections, minus road rights-of-way, covering approximately 300 acres (120 ha).

The land for the park was transferred to the municipality of Anchorage by the Bureau of Land Management in 1948[clarification needed] and it was initially used as a minimum security prison farm.

Three years later, three elderly people were murdered by a teenaged couple in a secluded residential neighborhood approximately 250 feet (76 m) south of the park's border.

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View of the fledgling park in 1959. Due to the prison farm which operated on the same tract of land, recreational uses were limited at the time to day camping (shown here) and picnicking.