Skateboarding: 7 skate parks on the Treasure Coast, 3 more coming soon
The skateboarding scene on the Treasure Coast is growing.
At least three new skate parks are in the works for Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties — adding to the existing seven skate parks in the area where skateboarding is allowed.
In the East Stuart neighborhood, about 12,500 square feet has been designated for a skate park at Guy Davis Park, specifically at 724 S.E. 10th St., according to city spokesperson Misti Guertin.
City officials are waiting on a conceptual rendering, followed by comments from the design team, Guertin said. They are expecting to bring project details to the commissioners this year.
In Port St. Lucie's Torino area, city officials have been getting community feedback about the skateboarding features at the skate park at the future Torino Regional Park, a 195-acre complex on North Torino Parkway.
Construction is expected to begin during the first few months of 2026, according to officials. Action Sports Design, the company behind the skate park, is making it accessible to skateboarders, bikers, scooter riders, in-line skaters and more.
In Vero Beach's Three Corners area near the former power plant, the Vero Beach Skate Park Alliance — which turned 10 years old in May — is waiting for details about the city's plan with its chosen developer for the Three Corners project before it has more information about a skate park going there.
The project is a mixed-use development of entertainment, recreation, restaurants, shopping and open space that would be built on city-owned land along the waterfront at 17th Street and Indian River Boulevard.
Until the new skate parks open, here are the seven existing skate parks across the Treasure Coast and what they have to offer skateboarders.
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The Sebastian Skate Park opened in 2001 and since was rebuilt with concrete features, including three ramps, a jersey barrier, boxes and the skating floor. It hasn't been supervised by city officials since 2019.
1121 Barber St., Sebastian; open 8 a.m. to sunset daily; cityofsebastian.org
The Fellsmere Skate Park opened in October 2021 at the end of Myrtle Street near the basketball courts. It was funded through a $700,000 Florida Small Cities Community Development Block Grant.
The park was proposed five years ago by then 10-year-old Kyle Goldsmith of Fellsmere, who approached the City Council about the need for more recreational opportunities for local youth.
222 S. Myrtle St., Fellsmere
The Lawnwood Skate Park opened in 2008 next to the Havert L. Fenn Center in Fort Pierce. Orlando-based Team Pain worked through architecture firm Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Rinehart, which has built ramps and parks for the X Games and Tony Hawk.
For a year, they teamed with St. Lucie County Parks and Recreation staff and the skate park committee to design the plans and build the $500,000, 15,000-square-foot concrete facility. The architects gave blank sheets of paper to the kids on the committee for them to draw their skate park.
It includes a street area with a four-flat, four-double set with a square handrail and a hubba; a 50-foot-long ledge with three smaller handrails; a curved ledge; a manual pad ledge; a bench; a whale tail ledge; and a snake run.
2100 Virginia Ave., Fort Pierce; open 8 a.m. to dusk daily; stlucieco.gov
The skate park at Mary Brogan Park in Stuart opened in 2000 at 12,000 square feet in size.
5050 S.E. Willoughby Blvd., Stuart; sunrise to 9 p.m. daily; martin.fl.us/SkateParks
The skate park at Jock Leighton Park in Palm City opened in 2004. It's 13,382 square feet in size and includes a 6-foot half-pipe, a street course with two fun boxes in the middle — one with a rail and another with a ledge — two corner pyramid boxes and a big bank drop-in section.
3755 S.W. Mapp Road, Palm City; open sunrise to 8:15 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, sunrise to 9:15 p.m. Friday-Saturday; martin.fl.us/SkateParks
The Pat Mark Rio-Jensen Skate Park at Langford Park in Jensen Beach opened in 2003. It's 15,000 square feet in size with a 3,000-square-foot street course that was added in 2011.
It has a 30-inch drop-in ramp, an earthquake gap, a grass gap, a manual pad with grind rail, a multilevel combo pad, straight and curved grind ledges, a 4-foot-tall taco and a hubba.
It's the only skate park in Martin County with a staff member present during specific hours of operation.
2151 N.E. Dixie Highway, Jensen Beach; open sunrise to 8 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, sunrise to 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday; martin.fl.us/SkateParks
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The skate park at Post Family Park in Indiantown opened in 2002 at 7,000 square feet. Since then, the skate park was renovated and all the equipment had been replaced, and it reopened in July 2024.
It's the only skate park in Martin County where skate cards aren't required.
15700 S.W. Warfield Blvd., Indiantown
Laurie K. Blandford is TCPalm's entertainment reporter dedicated to finding the best things to do on the Treasure Coast. Email her at laurie.blandford@tcpalm.com.
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