Anchorage Park Featuring Plenty of Amenities

Delaney Park is Anchorage's oldest park. Locals call is the Park Strip, but the park was officially named for Major Delaney, one of Anchorage's first mayors. Originally a firebreak, it become The Golf Course in 1922. It was also used as an airstrip until 1929. Midway through the 1950's the Parks and Recreation Department began development on recreation amenities throughout the park. The site was host to the Alaska Statehood Celebration in 1958, an event to celebrate Alaska's admission into the United States. The park is 13 blocks long and each year features a variety of events and festivals for the Anchorage community and hosts sporting events. The park is home to six softball and two soccer fields, five horseshoe pits, eight tennis and two sand volley ball courts, an ice hockey and skating rink, a winter running route, a bandstand, and a fitness center. On the grounds are memorials dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pope John Paul II. Other memorials include the Purple Heart Memorial, the Aviation Memorial, and the E.G. Fenn Memorial, the POW/MIA Tree, the C.A. Berg Tree, the Organ and Tissue Donor Memorial, the R.O. Robertson Tree, a Veteran's Memorial, and the Victims for Justice Tree. Parking is located along the 10th Avenue side of the park.