This park is well known for its long-standing craft market on the second Saturday of each month. Visiting the craft market is a relaxing way to spend a Saturday morning, browsing stalls of hand-made goods and breakfasting under the park’s lovely trees. Except when the craft market is in session it is an open park of big trees, avenues of oaks, planes and pines lead to a central cluster of wild fig trees. There are gravel pathways, lawns provide areas for children to play, there is a fenced children's play area with the usual slide, see-saw, roundabout, and swings, benches offer places for adults to sit and relax.
The park was once part of the Rondebosch Common. In 1870 control of the Common was transferred from St. Paul's Anglican Church to the villages of Rondebosch and Mowbray, and ultimately in 1913 control passed from the Municipality of Rondebosch to Greater Cape Town. This led over time to parts of the common being lost to residential, church and educational uses: but one excised portion fortunately became Rondebosch Park as we know it today.
As the cache has had to be changed from "small" to "micro" please bring your own pen/pencil.