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Veterans Memorial Park in Vineyard Haven: about 9 acres of ballfields, courts, a playground and a flat paved loop, off Lagoon Pond Road behind Cumberland Farms.
Veterans Memorial Park is at 10 Causeway Road in Vineyard Haven, behind Cumberland Farms, off Lagoon Pond Road near Lagoon Pond. It is a sports and recreation park, separate from Owen Park on the harbor, where the summer band concerts are held.
Cumberland Farms, a few steps from Five Corners, on a gray September day. The park is right behind it, which is why the store turns up in nearly every set of directions.
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Veterans Memorial Park is the largest open space in Vineyard Haven: ballfields, courts, a playground and a memorial to the town's veterans.
The park covers about 9 acres, with a soccer field, two baseball fields (one lighted), a volleyball court, a lighted basketball court, a multi-purpose field, playground equipment, picnic tables, restrooms, and free parking. It is a living memorial to veterans who died in wars. The American Legion veterans decided "a park area of playing fields and playgrounds was more suitable than bronze and granite as a memorial."
The paved loop around the fields, with benches along it. It is the flattest, easiest walk in town for a stroller or a wheelchair.
The path past the restroom building and a picnic table at Veterans Memorial Park in October.
A green and white sign on a utility pole by the ball field spells out the town’s regulations. Organized groups need a permit for field use, and the application is on the Town of Tisbury website, tisburyma.gov. Alcohol and smoking are prohibited by town ordinance, and activities with a permit have priority on the fields. Golf is not allowed, chipping and driving included, and neither is soft toss into the backstop. Dogs are expected, with the usual request to clean up after them, and only authorized motor vehicles go onto the fields. For a visitor the short version is simple: walk the loop, throw a ball around on an open field, keep the dog to the paths and leave a field to whoever has booked it.
The regulations sign by the ball field: permits for organized groups through the town website, no alcohol or smoking, no golf, and clean up after your dog.
American Legion Post 257 (George W. Goethals Post) built the park on a former tidal marsh called "Cat Hollow." Filling the marsh took 60,000 cubic yards of earth, and construction took 12 years. In 1964, Tisbury selectmen received the deed along with $6,000 for improvements. The park was rededicated on Flag Day in June 2014, 50 years after the town received the deed.
The ball field at Veterans Memorial Park on a sunny September day: bleachers along the rail fence, the flag by the lot, and an osprey nest on the pole beyond the trees. Off Lagoon Pond Road, behind Cumberland Farms, with free parking.
The park has hosted the Beach Road Weekend music festival (2023 featured Mumford and Sons, Bon Iver, Leon Bridges). Standard use is recreational and athletic: youth soccer, Little League, community sports.
Home plate and the backstop at Veterans Memorial Park. Little League in spring, pickup games and dog walkers the rest of the year; the soccer goals and the playground are on the far side of the field.
The meadow and marsh at the park’s edge, the last of the tidal ground the whole park was filled from.
We walked the park on the last day of October 2026 under a clear sky. The infield is bare dirt again after the season, the backstop and the soccer goals are still up, and the aluminum bleachers along the ball field had the place to themselves. This is the park at its quietest, and the flat loop is as easy a walk as it is in July.
The infield in late October, bare dirt again after the season, with the backstop at the right and the soccer goals on the far side.
A nest platform stands on a tall pole at the edge of the fields, the kind the island puts up for ospreys, empty by late October. The small gray shingled shed sits between the two soccer goals on the far side, and the gravel edge by the fields had no cars on it.
The fields on the last day of October 2026, a daytime moon above and a nest platform on the tall pole at the edge of the grass.
The view from the bleachers takes in the whole park at once: the ball field in front, the soccer goals and the shed beyond, and the roofs of the town above the trees.
The aluminum bleachers along the ball field. From here you see the whole park, the soccer goals and the shed beyond.
The far field: two soccer goals, the small gray shingled shed and the nest platform on its pole.
The Vineyard Haven Band’s summer concerts are held at the Owen Park bandstand on the harbor, not at Veterans Memorial Park. Our Owen Park guide has the concert schedule.
The Vineyard Haven Band playing under the lanterns at Grand Illumination in Oak Bluffs in August 2026.
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