Any spot of green in a city is very welcome, and perhaps the primary reason we moved here. The park used to include a 9 hole course. They took it out years back or so. It's nicer now I think. When I lived here 1970ish, the place was full of druggies and hippies and homeless folks, it wasn't safe.
n 1979, the golf course was closed, freeing up 70 acres of green space on what is now Oak Hill and the Meadow.