but because parmer was so enganged in wanting to make he had the right environment for the people who were going to live here, he adopted the same philosophy. came time to do something with this property, it make a icult for him to decision that it would stay a park and be forever free to the people and stayed that way today. nusual for a city parks and recreation department to have to take on something that has significance. this has always been a draw and here for two natural reasons. in addition to health and other those are natural reasons. it remains that today from when charles perkins made the gift. always be it would important to the people. we keep that functioning today. city has well over 150 parks. the is the park that is because of the national draw. maintain icult to something like this with the dollars that you would have do with a neighborhood or a smaller community park. in 1985, a foundation was stablished by a benefactor of this park, lighted hill, to a system for the visitor's center be owned by the foundation and the profits would the garden aintain of the gods pa