There are seven reviews in Yelp* for the many features of Papago Park, not including the ones for The Phoenix Zoo and Desert Botanical Gardens.\n\nWhen you travel the 1200 acres of Papago Park, remember you are partaking of a gift from the generations before you.  A noted, cherished and thoughtfully developed gift recording Arizona and U.S. history and passed from generation to generation.  \n\nThis land was judged by rulers too valuable a tract to be part of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian community, judged by other rulers not quite good enough for a national monument.   A group of active visionaries, led by a gentleman named George Hunt used taxpayer funded  programs of the 1930's named the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to give the park lots of the personality you experience today.  \n\nA series of large ponds and ditches were excavated and lined with stone by young men formerly idled by the Great Depression.  The Salt River Project contributed a bit of water from the New Crosscut Canal, and Phoenix had its first warm water fish hatchery.  Stone ramadas were built by more formerly unemployed youth.  Phoenix began to have a park at the site of this easily accessible, nearly unmatched vista point for the Salt River Valley.  The urban fishing program lives on in Papago and every other valley park with large water features.  \n\nIn the 1930's, a passionate man named Starck saw the future, wanted to save the desert, and sowed the seeds for our Desert Botanical Garden.    \n\nDecades passed, the fish hatchery went away, and in 1961 a civic leader named Maytag decided Phoenix needed a zoological park.  The lower WPA bass hatchery ponds are the water features in our Phoenix Zoo.  \n\nIt ain't Arizona without golf.   As the zoo developed in the 1960's, our city leaders hired a golfer named Bell to design an excellent course.  \n\nThe open space abides, the park's human features continue to grow, develop and appear in the utmost beauty.  Around Papago Park, land development and population growth continue.\n\nThis park is a gift from the seven generations before us and the uncounted generations before them.  What will our gift be to the generation of 2114?