Kenea Park is located at the intersection of North and East Main Streets in Thomaston. This is a busy intersection, lying at the northern end of Thomaston's business district. Two churches, St. Thomas' Catholic and Thomaston United Methodist, are located here. Main Street is lined with commercial blocks of two or three stories going south. Opposite the park itself is a parking lot, and to the north the buildings thin out -- they are recent, one-story gas stations and convenience stores. On East Main, two-story buildings originally constructed as workers' housing now have stores in their ground floors. Kenea Park is bounded by North Main Street and the two branches of East Main Street, Cannon Park is bounded by East Main and Park Streets, and by a sidewalk separating it from the Methodist Church property.

Both triangles have concrete sidewalks and curbs all the way around them. Both are level, grassy, and rather thickly filled with trees and furniture. Maintenance is by the town parks department, and a senior citizens; group provides flower plantings in the summer.

Kenea Park is dominated by a bandstand at its center -- an octagonal structure with a granite foundation and stucco Tuscan columns supporting a slate roof. It dates to the 1930s or before, and replaces an older bandstand erected in the 19th century. Rhododendrons, yews and other shrubs surround the foundation. A low granite marker to Edith Kenea stands south of the bandstand, and a water pump, donated by the Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1902, stands at the southern corner. Three maple trees, three small flower beds, and a bench donated by the Thomaston Rotary Club also fill the park.

The main features in Cannon Park are war memorials. The Civil War monument, erected in 1902, is a statue of a soldier standing on top of a tall pedestal. Two cannons flank it, and behind it stands a tall stone tablet dedicated to participants in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Small evergreen shrubs surround this tablet, and a maple tree stands several feet beyond it on each side. Nearer the point at the intersection of East Main, North Main and Park Streets stands a boulder with a bronze plaque which is the World War I memorial. Between it and the corner is a semicircle of yews clipped into a hedge, with an iron gate at the center. Behind the World War monument stands a flagpole, with a small flower bed behind it. There are three more benches, of the same type as the one in Kenea Park: wood slates on concrete frames, and marked as donations of the Rotary Club.