Municipal Park has a very interesting and colorful history. Now a popular site for picnics and reunions, Municipal was once a tourist campground and baseball stadium. In 1910, the Boise School District (which was responsible for building and maintaining public playgrounds) purchased 25 acres at this site for a baseball stadium. Instead of building the stadium, the property became Boise Tourist Park campground in 1918. The campground had 6,000 visitors a season. The grounds featured tent sites, a communal kitchen with hotplates, a laundry with a washing machine, a playground and 2 cement slabs for washing cars. After World War I, traffic increased to 20,000 cars a year and it became difficult to maintain the park. In 1927, the City of Boise bought the land and named it Municipal Park. The park gained a reputation as a "hobo jungle" so it was closed in 1938 and made into a general use park. For more information, look for the signs located in Municipal Park along the Greenbelt.