Indian Bend Park was developed in 1962 on land that was previously owned by Salt River Project. 

Park size is 8 acres.

About the playground artist-designed rubber surface:

Chris Jagmin
Kids Play, 2021
Rubberized Playground Surface
Description: As the oldest sibling, Chris Jagmin liked to entertain his two brothers and four sisters. He wrote scripts for plays that they would then put on for the neighbors, and he designed board games for them all to play. After an Indiana snowfall, he would get up early to shovel out a pathway of mazes for a day-long game of fox & geese (a game of tag). When thinking about these Tempe play areas, Jagmin remembered how much fun they had running around those mazes. Inspired by this memory, each park has a pathway that kids can discover and make up their own game to play on, whether alone, or with others. As the children play around these paths, Jagmin hopes that the colorful images of flowers, bees and butterflies spark a bit of their imagination, and take them to a magical childhood place.

Read more on Tempe Public Art's map. Photo by Michael Williams.