• Union Park ~ Home to Des Moines' Heritage Carousel, a free children's water park, tennis courts, picnic shelters, and playground containing the historic rocket slide, prairie restoration, and flower gardens maintained by the Union Park Garden Club.
  • Ida B Wise Smith Historical Marke
• Birdland Park
• The Des Moines River water trail provides for boating, canoeing and kayaking, jet skiing, water skiing, pontoon boat adventures and public fishing.
• Des Moines Rowing Club and Annual Regatta
• Birdland Marina (map)
• Dragoon Trail (Photo Guide)
• Neal Smith Bike Trail (42 miles long)
• Grand View University

Within one mile of the neighborhood can be found:

• Birdland Recreation Complex
• Burke Memorial Park
• Des Moines Lutheran Hospital
• Des Moines Botanical and Environmental Center and Japanese Garden
• Center Street Pedestrian Bridge and Dam
• John Anderson White Riverboat
• Lutheran Hospital
• Mercy Hospital

Within two miles can be found:

The official Union Park Neighborhood boundaries are Hull Avenue on the North, the railroad tracks on the East, Washington Avenue on the South and the Des Moines River and 2nd Street on the West. The area covers 96 blocks of land containing approximately 2,200 single-family dwellings.

See our neighborhood map page or click on this adjacent thumbnail image of the map.

The Union Park Neighborhood Association (UPNA) is a a grass roots volunteer organization and is not a part of City Government.

Learn more about the UPNA and join today.

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Heritage Carousel

Union Park View to Downtown

Historic Union Park Rocket Slide

Union Park Wading Pool