History
Ann Arbor's city parks sit on the ancestral and traditional homelands of several indigenous Native peoples. Read a
land acknowledgement from the city and learn more about the early history of the land
here.
Willow Nature Area was acquired by the city in 2007, but it was not named or designated as parkland until 2020. A developer bought and developed a property on Eisenhower Parkway and dedicated a small parcel of the land back to the city to be used as parkland. In 2020 a resolution corrected the omission of this area, designating it as parkland and naming it Willow Nature Area.