 Cornwall Park is best known for its namesake — a large forested park that is very active and contains a playground, baseball fields, spray water park, wooded trails, hills, horseshoe pits, tennis courts, picnic shelters, and a disc golf course.
Cornwall Park neighborhood is nestled in the heart of Bellingham. In addition to the park for which the neighborhood is named, the neighborhood offers a variety of smaller parks, The Roeder Home, St. Joseph Hospital, and several additional medical facilities.
Surrounding the park are a variety of single family homes. The homes in the area tend to be single family homes, older & on comfortable lots.Homes also line Meridian Street until West Illinois Street where Meridian enters the Fountain District, a shopping area that has some of Bellingham’s older, established businesses and buildings.
To the southwest, homes generally are smaller, and many are duplexes. By contrast, the southeastern corner of the neighborhood is home to Broadway Park and the large, older homes that surround it. The Roeder Home, now owned by the Bellingham Parks Department, is a landmark that draws people in for weddings, recitals and craft events. The house was built in 1903 by the grandson of Henry Roeder, who was one of Bellingham’s founders.
St. Joseph Hospital is also in the Cornwall neighborhood, taking  up most of the eastern side. There are also several medical facilities in this area, including a cancer center and a health education facility.
Cornwall Park and the hospital help to provide a buffer between residential areas and the industrial and warehouse area along Interstate 5 to the north.
Parks
Cornwall Park's combination of open fields and forested hills makes the park a great place for outdoor outings. Squalicum Creek winds through the park and nearby Bug Lake. At the south end of the park is Cornwall Park Rose Garden.
Shopping
Meridian Street is lined with small shops, restaurants and offices that form the commercial area known as the Fountain District. The original Haggen grocery store is found here, along with several coffee shops, ethnic restaurants, furniture stores and more.
Farther north along Meridian Street is Bellingham's north end shopping mecca, including Bellis Fair mall. 
Schools
Just east of the park and south of the hospital is Parkview Elementary School, attended by most neighborhood youngsters. A few homes in the southern portion of the neighborhood are in the Columbia Elementary School zone.
Most middle schoolers in the neighborhood attend Shuksan Middle School. Those southeast of Sunset Drive are assigned to Whatcom Middle School. Teens attend Bellingham High School.
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