Recent improvements include seeding and the installation of a play area expansion. A ballfield and sand volleyball courts are also present. A trail loop connects the park to Lake Susan Hills Drive and Heron Drive. This 350-acre regional facility locate don the northeast side of Lake Minnewashta is operated by the Parks Division of Carver County Public Works. Existing facilities include two boat accesses, swimming beach, picnic areas, three picnic shelters, a bath house, a maintenance shop, and a large children's play structure and groomed cross-country ski trails.
Future plans call for a natural interpretive center, additional parking and an open field area.
Because it is designed to provide recreational facilities not found in municipal parks, it will not contain active play areas such as ball diamonds, tennis courts, or hockey rinks. Reservations for one of the picnic shelters are accepted. A part of the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum is spread over 905 acres of rolling hills and fields in western Chanhassen. Formal gardens and plant collections display more than 5,000 plant varieties that can be grown in a northern climate. Located on the eastern shore of Lake Minnewashta, Camp Tanadoona is owned and operated by the Minneapolis Council of Camp Fire, a youth agency for girls and boys.