Named after Senator Edward Zorinsky of Omaha, the park has a 255-acre (103 ha) lake offering boating and fishing.

[3] Zorinsky Lake Park opened in 1993 after the US Army Corps of Engineers leased the land to the City of Omaha.

According to the Nebraska Game and Park Commission, Zorinsky Lake was stocked with 79 largemouth bass on April 16, 2009 and 38,000 walleye on June 10, 2009.

In November 2010, a local Boy Scout found a zebra mussel attached to a beer can at the edge of the lake.

[7] In an attempt to eradicate the invasive mollusk, the lake was partially drained in the winter of 2010–11, lowering its level by 17.5 feet (5.3 m): it was thought that removing the water and exposing the mussels to sub-freezing air temperatures would kill them off.