Cocoa Parks

The City of Cocoa lists ten parks under Leisure Services, from Cocoa Riverfront Park on the Indian River to neighborhood parks such as Provost, Joe Lee Smith and Anderson, and the phone number to call depends on the park (Cocoa Leisure Services).

The ten names in the city Parks menu are Cocoa Riverfront Park, Taylor Park, Lee Wenner Park, Provost Park, Peachtree Parks, Junny Rios Martinez Park, Joe Lee Smith Park, Anderson Park, Travis Park and Don "Mo" Stradley Memorial Park (Cocoa Leisure Services). The Leisure Services division was established in 2005 to run the Porcher House, the Civic Center, the Riverfront Park Amphitheater and Water Fountain, Taylor Park and Myrt Tharpe Square, and it handles facility rentals, park permits and parade or special event applications from 430 Delannoy Avenue, (321) 639-3500, Monday to Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (Cocoa Leisure Services).

The neighborhood parks read differently. The city facility pages for Provost Park, Joe Lee Smith Park and Carl E. Anderson Park each name Brevard County Parks and Recreation, 321-633-1874, as the contact (Provost Park page; Joe Lee Smith Park page; Anderson Park page). The practical tip is simple: riverfront questions go to Cocoa Leisure Services, and questions about Provost, Joe Lee Smith or Anderson go to the county line first. The city facility directory also lists Bracco Pond Park, 950 Plaza Parkway, with City of Cocoa Public Works at 321-433-8770 as the contact, a park that does not appear in the Leisure Services menu (Cocoa facility directory).

Sources for the table: Riverfront Park page, Lee Wenner Park page, Provost Park page, Joe Lee Smith Park page, Anderson Park page and the facility directory.

Lee Wenner Park, 300 Riveredge Blvd, is the city boat launch, with four boat ramps, day slips and access to the Indian River Boardwalk, open dawn to dusk (Lee Wenner Park page).

Lee Wenner also has a covered picnic pavilion and restrooms, and its contact is City of Cocoa Leisure Services at 321-639-3500 x4 (Lee Wenner Park page). Next door, the Cocoa Riverfront Park listing names areas for fishing, water sports and boat launching along with the boardwalk (Riverfront Park page). The Cocoa Community Redevelopment Agency reports that Lee Wenner Park was closed from Labor Day 2024 to Labor Day 2025 while its parking lot was rebuilt, and that the project was completed by the end of FY25 (Cocoa CRA 2025 Annual Report).

Away from the river, Bracco Pond Park at 950 Plaza Parkway lists fishing, a bike trail and exercise stations in the city facility directory (Cocoa facility directory).

Provost Park has new courts and a new field, and Joe Lee Smith Park has the swimming pool (Joe Lee Smith Park page).

Provost Park, 400 South Varr Ave, lists basketball, a multipurpose field, pickleball, soccer, a playground, a pavilion, parking and restrooms, open dawn to dusk (Provost Park page). Its pavilion is reserved through Brevard County at 321-633-1872 or CentralAreaParks@BrevardFL.gov, not through the city (Provost Park page).

Joe Lee Smith Park, 415 Stone St, lists multi purpose courts and field, a community center, a swimming pool and a playground, with the county parks line as contact; the city page sends readers to the Brevard County page for pool details (Joe Lee Smith Park page). The city page itself gives no pool hours or fees, so a call to the county line before a visit avoids a wasted trip.

Carl E. Anderson Park, 501 North Fiske Blvd, lists basketball, a pavilion and a playground, and the city page says pavilion reservations go through the Brevard County Carl E. Anderson Park page (Anderson Park page). Cocoa Riverfront Park adds volleyball and a walking track to the list for people who stay downtown (Riverfront Park page).

City facilities, including the riverfront, are booked by calling Cocoa Leisure Services at (321) 639-3500 extension 4, which can hold a date for 2 weeks while the forms and a 25% deposit are turned in (City of Cocoa FAQ).

The city FAQ adds that the rest of a rental balance is due 30 days before the event, that Riverfront Park holds 1,500 people standing, and that the Porcher House, Civic Center and Riverfront Park close for events at 11:00pm, with the renter cleaned up and out by 12:00am (City of Cocoa FAQ). The reservations office is inside the Porcher House, Suite 202, open Monday to Friday 8a to 5p (Riverfront Park page).

County-contact parks follow the county process instead: the Provost Park pavilion through Brevard County at 321-633-1872, and the Anderson Park pavilion through the county's Carl E. Anderson Park page (Provost Park page; Anderson Park page). Upcoming events are listed on the Leisure Services Special Events Calendar, which the city FAQ names as the place to follow them (City of Cocoa FAQ).

Provost Park has had $1.7 million in city upgrades with more planned, and Lee Wenner Park has a rebuilt parking lot and a docking and breakwater project in progress (Provost Park page; Cocoa CRA 2025 Annual Report).

At Provost Park the city lists a new multi-purpose field with a scoreboard, renovated basketball courts, new pickleball courts, added lighting and benches, an expanded and paved Fiske Blvd. parking lot and a repaved Varr Ave. lot; still to come are accessible playground equipment and soccer mini-pitches with soccer programming (Provost Park page).

At Lee Wenner Park the Cocoa CRA approved $1.2 million in April 2024 to rebuild the parking lot and add 74 spaces, and that work was finished by the end of FY25 (Cocoa CRA 2025 Annual Report). The same report describes a new docking system and breakwater: a Florida Inland Navigation District grant of $84,000 plus an $84,000 CRA match paid for Phase I design and permitting, completed in FY25, and as of FY26 the project is in Phase II (Cocoa CRA 2025 Annual Report).

One page needs a caution. The Carl E. Anderson Park page still shows 2022 Planned Park Upgrades, a single restroom facility scheduled to be complete Summer 2022, and the page as read on October 21, 2026 gives no later update (Anderson Park page). Whether the restroom was built is not stated, so a call to the county parks line settles it.

The riverfront has its own Digital Towns guide, and the rest of the questions about Cocoa parks are answered on this page from the city park pages.

Questions about the amphitheater, the fountain, the boardwalk, the four Lee Wenner ramps and the history of the riverfront land are covered in the Cocoa Riverfront Park and Lee Wenner Park guide. The Riverfront Park Fountain runs 10:00am to 6:00pm daily unless it is under maintenance or turned off for an event (City of Cocoa FAQ), and the park is open dawn to dusk except for reserved special events (Riverfront Park page). Questions about shops, the Porcher House and the downtown district around the parks belong to the Historic Cocoa Village guide. Courts, fields, the pool and county-run pavilions are covered in the sections above, and the full list of Cocoa park guides appears below this answer.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, against the Cocoa Leisure Services page, six Cocoa park and facility listings, the city FAQ and the Cocoa CRA 2025 Annual Report, all re-read that day.