McKinley Park, Bounded by Alhambra Boulevard, McKinley Boulevard, 35th Street, Park Way, 33rd Street, and H Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA

Second Place Winner - 2017 HALS Challenge: Documenting City or Town Parks.
Significance: McKinley Park is a significant cultural landscape as Sacramento's first park related to the American urban parks movement of the nineteenth century and to the phenomenon of pleasure grounds created by streetcar companies. Developed in 1872, McKinley Park is also one of the earliest parks developed in the West only San Francisco's Golden Gate Park being older (1871). Its naturalistic design of meadows, informal tree plantings, and curving pathways is typical of urban parks during that period. The park is also significant for its collection of recreation features added during the reform park movement of the twentieth century prior to 1940. McKinley Park is significant at local and state levels.
Survey number: HALS CA-133
Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction