Holland Rink Playground is pocket park of sorts is located across from Hanover Insurance on Lincoln Street. It’s one of Worcester’s few ‘Phantom Playgrounds’, as its name signifies that it’s a playground but it lacks any sort of playground structure.

This park has some really cool history, as it was added to Green Hill Park in 1929 when it was a bowling green, but then the bowling green was replaced by a pool, basketball courts and an archery area. In 1942 the Works Progress Administration built the Thomas Holland field house on the site. The wading pool there was called ‘Holland Rink’ which is where the park’s current name comes from. Then in 1967, 290 was constructed severing the ‘Holland Recreation Area’ from Green Hill Park, destroying the pool and leaving only basketball courts and a ball field.

The city currently has plans to redo Holland Rink Playground, moving the basketball court, adding two handball courts, a ‘new’ playground, a parking lot, and some ‘rectangular fields’.