Depot Park stood on the east side of Sixth Street just south of the Northern Pacific Railroad tracks on Northern Pacific land, though it was never a city entity. The first Northern Pacific depot stood just north of it where the concrete water tower now stands. It was a popular meeting place, later became largely wooded, and was sometimes called Hobo Park because it was apparently something of a hangout for hobos. From 1886-1887, a splendid two-block-long, two-way toboggan slide occupied the site, with riders sliding east from 6th Street to one end and climbing the other on 8th Street for the return trip, while an ice rink stood between the two slides. One of the earliest bandstands stood there for a quarter century until the Parker Bandstand was built in Gregory Park in 1914, the year the Northern Pacific Railroad officially ordered the park open to the public. The site later became the location of the Baehr Building in 1936 and the Brainerd Theater in 1938; the upper floor was destroyed by fire in 1964, and the building was demolished in February 1999 and turned into a parking lot.