The Holyoke Parks and Recreation Department not only does a great job of maintaining their parks, they also do a fine job of describing their park system. Read about their many PARKS at their external link. I give tours of some of these many parks and that is described at each link below.
At the peak of recreation in Holyoke in 1953 for an example, there were 8 softball diamonds, 7 baseball diamonds, and 7 skating rinks. Also in that year Toto’s Restaurant donated the use of its picnic grove for the summertime youth programs. This was called the Smith Ferry Community Center. These city program were even in the Holyoke Jewish Community Center. They had programs in fields and parks and in private business and public schools.
| name | tour link | location | year | comments |
| Anniversary Field | tour link | location | information | |
| Avery Field | tour link | location | Hampden Field | |
| Bonin Field | tour link | location | Germania Park | |
| Community Field | tour link | location | information | |
| Crosier | tour link | see Elmwood | ||
| Deroy Park | tour link | location | Canonchet Park | |
| DiNapoli Plaza | tour link | location | ||
| Elmwood Park | tour link | location | MacKenzie, Crosier, Sheard, Roberts, and Young | |
| Feldman Park | tour link | see Pulaski | ||
| Harper Park | link | Wyatt Harper | ||
| Holyoke Heritage State Park | link | |||
| Ingleside Playground | link | |||
| Jackson Courts | link | |||
| Jones Point Park | tour link | location | Highland Park | |
| Kennedy Park | tour link | |||
| Kenney Park | link | |||
| Korean War Veterans Memorial Plaza | link | |||
| Kosciuszko Park | tour link | location | ||
| Laurel Park | tour link | |||
| Library Park | tour link | location | ||
| MacKenzie | tour link | see Elmwood | ||
| Mayer Field | link | |||
| McNally Field | tour link | May 21 1939 renamed and rededicated | William McNally died in France in June 1918 | |
| McNulty Park | tour link | |||
| Mitchell Field | tour link | location | Prospect Field | |
| Morgan Street Park | tour link | |||
| Peasants Park | link | Appleton and Beech | ||
| Pina Park | link | Flats | ||
| Pulaski Park | tour link | location | Prospect Park | |
| Rohan Park | tour link | location | Kirtland School | |
| Roberts | tour link | see Elmwood | ||
| Roosevelt Triangle | link | 100 feet west of Hillside and Westfield Road | ||
| Sheard | tour link | see Elmwood | ||
| Soucy Park | link | |||
| South Chestnut Street Park | tour link | South Chestnut Street School | ||
| Springdale Park | tour link | location | Riverside Park | |
| Sullivan Square | tour link | location | 1889 | Appleton, Pleasant, and Dwight |
| Vega Park | tour link | location | 1889 | Hamilton Park |
| Veteran’s Park | tour link | location | Hampden Park | |
| Young | tour link | see Elmwood | ||
| Liberty Park | tour link | NW corner of Winter and Appleton Streets | 1943 (gone) | |
| Waterfront Park | link | called Depression Park | ||
| Henry Toepfert Playground | at foot of Lyman Street | 1961 | ||
| Alfred Corbeil play land | behind White Restaurant in Smiths Ferry | 1961 | ||
| Ivers Square | ||||