Fraser Park occupies 10 acres of the original 160-acre homestead claimed by John Cattron in 1890. In 1805, Lewis and Clark passed through this area on the old Nez Perce Indian trail, and Clark returned to the Weippe area to trade with the Nez Perce Indians for more food while the expedition group built canoes at Orofino; Lewis and Clark went through this park three times on their way west that year, and a short piece of the trail remains on the park's south end. In 1933, Lawrence Judd, who knew John Cattron as an old family friend, wrote to him in California to ask permission for the community of Fraser to create a ball field and picnic area there, and Cattron agreed. Community work made the ball field and picnic area a reality in the spring of 1934. In 1939, Lawrence Judd, then a Clearwater County Commissioner, led the effort to purchase these 10 acres as a Clearwater County park to preserve the area as a permanent park for the people, and Clearwater County received the deed for Fraser Park on June 17, 1942. Judd was the main instigator and promoter of the park's creation.