South Worcester Playground

South Worcester Playground, also known as Harry Sherry Field, also known as Maloney Field. This 5-acre park located on Cambridge Street became a park in 1986. It is the home of the South Worcester Baseball league, featuring two baseball fields, a soccer area, two handball courts, a basketball court, a playground, the Camp Street Community […]

Shore Park

It wasn’t easy to find information about Shore Park. According to online documents, Shore Park was put behind fences and locked up for many years, only used by the police department when they trained their k9s or when a local group hosted a party. The city formed a partnership with the Greendale YMCA and the […]

Shale St Playground

Shale Street ‘Playground’ is a small Worcester park that’s in the most dire shape of all of Worcester’s 60 parks and playgrounds. It’s small parcel of land of just .78 of an acre is located just off Wall Street on Grafton Hill, in between Wall Street and Shale Street, which is a short private dirt […]

Salisbury Park

Salisbury Park is one of Worcester’s most iconic parks, most famous for Bancroft Tower, the 116 year old castle-esq monument named after Worcester native, former Secretary of the Navy, diplomat, and historian George Bancroft. The tower was built by Stephen Salisbury III, the last of the Worcester’s esteemed Salisbury family, who built it to honor […]

Rockwood Field

This West Side active-recreation area has been in the city’s possession for some time, but it recently got a massive makeover. It’s worth checking out, you can find it right along Chandler Street. It was transferred from the school department in 1940, officially becoming a park. George Rockwood donated the land in 1940 with the […]

Ramshorn Island

Ramshorn Island is an unusual and often forgotten park that acquired by the city in 1919. It is located in Lake Quinsigamond under Route 9’s Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge. Park access to Ramshorn Island from the old bridge was removed during $89-million bridge rebuild over the past few years. The park is currently only […]

Providence Street Playground

Providence Street Playground is one of Worcester’s newest parks. It was proposed in 2007 as a ‘friendly gesture’ to residents who live near the Ballard Street landfill when the city’s composting operation was moved from Hope Cemetery to Ballard Street. It was complete in 2010. Interestingly, paid for not by using the city’s property taxes, […]

Oread-Castle Park

Oread Castle Park, also known as Castle Park, is a three acre park replete with history and located on the front line of Worcester’s fight for the future over crime and drug abuse. Castle Park is located in Main South in between Main and Chandler Streets (the park can be accessed by Oread Place off […]

Oakland Heights Playground

Oakland Heights Playground is named after the Oakland Heights neighborhood in which it’s situated. It is one of Worcester’s southernmost parks, located just north of route 20 and east of Granite Street. This is probably one of Worcester’s most obscure and unknown playgrounds. It’s located off a dirt road, which is off from a state […]

Quinsigamond Lake Park

A park managed by the State DCR, it features a football field, tennis courts, picnic areas, a beach, and a 1-mile long walking path. Formerly owned by the city and part of Lake park.