It borders the Brewery District to the east, Interstate 71 and the Scioto River to the north and west, and downtown to the northeast, and it is partially isolated by railroad tracks.

[3] It was designed by MKSK, an urban planning and landscape architecture company that has made many Columbus-area works, including the Scioto Mile.

[4] Specific features include a central activity area, with a climbing wall, water tower with two observation platforms, and three sand volleyball courts.

Nearby are recreation fields, a sledding hill, butterfly garden, bocce courts, a park office and visitor center, a boat ramp, fishing docks, and a maintenance area.

The nearby Greenlawn Avenue dam widens the river into a slack water lake, attractive to migrating birds.

The 6,100 sq ft (570 m2) structure is considered the largest free outdoor climbing wall in the United States.

It uses a passive solar design, native plants on its green roof, and it maximizes natural light, uses geothermal heating, and has gutters leading to bioswales, filtering debris and pollution out of runoff.

Philip Urban, then CEO of Grange Insurance, was looking for an iconic way for his company to commemorate 75 years in business.

Urban then formed a fundraising committee and convinced corporations and individuals to contribute, raising the total funds to $14.5 million.

[8] Species include the northern pintail, pied-billed grebe, American bittern, osprey, at least ten species of gulls and terns, the prothonotary warbler, northern waterthrush, peregrine falcons, bald eagles, cliff swallows, red-shouldered hawks, red-headed woodpeckers, and the yellow-crowned night heron.

They were commissioned by the Columbus Division of Power, which paid Ohio State University landscape architecture students to design a work to bring attention to the facility and spur curiosity, especially given its prominent visibility from I-70 and I-71.

[10] The entire Whittier Peninsula was once home to factories, rail yards, warehouses, and impound lots, and it became an industrial brownfield site.

The Ohio Department of Transportation requires space while it reconstructs portions of Interstates 70 and 71, and will purchase the site of the current dog park, which opened in 2012.