Gleason Park, Indian Harbour Beach

Gleason Park is the City of Indian Harbour Beach's 27-acre park at 1233 Yacht Club Boulevard, home to the Recreation Center, the city pool, two playgrounds and a lake ringed by walking paths.

The Gleason Park facility page lists bathrooms, grills, picnic tables, a playground, the swimming pool and a walking path and exercise area, and places the Indian Harbour Beach Recreation Center in the park on the corner of South Patrick Drive and Yacht Club Boulevard. The Indian Harbour Beach Recreation page adds shuffleboard courts, two playgrounds and picnic facilities.

The City of Indian Harbour Beach About page describes Gleason Park as surrounding a lake with many exercise paths, lit in the early evening by Victorian lights, with the year-round heated pool in the park next to the community center. For drivers, the Indian Harbour Beach facility rentals page places the Recreation Center approximately one-half mile north of the Eau Gallie Causeway and just east of South Patrick Drive.

Gleason Park is open every day from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM, while the Indian Harbour Beach Recreation office inside the park keeps weekday hours of 9 am to 5 pm.

The Gleason Park page lists the same 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM hours for weekdays, Saturday and Sunday, and gives the office hours as 9 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. Rentals of the Indian Harbour Beach Recreation Center run on weekends, and the facility rentals page sets rental hours of 7 am to midnight on Saturday and noon to midnight on Sunday.

On weekdays the Indian Harbour Beach Recreation Center serves city programs: the rentals page says clubs, classes and organizations sponsored by the city meet during the week, and the Indian Harbour Beach departments page describes classes ranging from toddlers and preschoolers to a Senior Leisure-time Club.

The Gleason Park pool is the city's heated competition-size pool, 25 yards long with 6 lanes, open seven days a week year-round.

The Indian Harbour Beach swimming pool page places the pool on the south side of the Recreation Center and says it holds approximately 113,000 gallons. In 2016 the city renovated the pool and deck surface, water pump and heater, and added a chiller to keep the water at the same temperature in the warmest summer months. The page splits opening times into Summer Pool Hours and Fall, Winter, Spring Hours tabs and links a swim lesson and team page and a registration form; the Recreation page lists American Red Cross instructed summer swim lessons among its Gleason Park pool activities.

The same Indian Harbour Beach pool page sets the family rules. There is no charge for children under 3, memberships run from the date of purchase through the same date the following year, family memberships cover one household, children under 11 must come with an adult, children under 6 must have an adult with them in the water at all times, children who are not toilet trained must wear swim diapers and swim pants, and only U.S. Coast Guard approved flotation devices are allowed.

Renting the Gleason Park Recreation Center Main Hall costs a resident a $275 rental fee plus tax and a $250 security deposit, and the city rentals page also lists a $140 Sunday fee plus tax.

The Indian Harbour Beach facility rentals page describes the Main Hall as 2,850 square feet for a maximum of 200 people, with 43 tables, 200 chairs, a 12 by 16 foot stage and a full kitchen with ice machine; 20 round tables are available for an extra $75. Non-residents pay a $525.70 rental fee plus tax, with a listed Sunday fee of $266.36 plus tax, and only renters living within Indian Harbour Beach city limits qualify for the resident rate.

The Gleason Park Meeting Room takes a maximum of 30 people, with 40 chairs included, and its kitchen and ice machine cost an extra $25; the room is not available from the third week of May through the second week of August. Reservations are made at the Indian Harbour Beach Recreation Center office, and the deposit, the signed policies and rules agreement, a letter requesting use and a hold harmless form are due within 7 days. Bounce houses and water slides are prohibited at all Indian Harbour Beach park facilities, Gleason Park included.

Leashed dogs are allowed in Gleason Park, but fishing in Gleason Park Lake is not.

The Gleason Park page states that Gleason Park Lake is non-fishing and that dogs are permitted on leashes, with waste picked up by the owner; waste stations are provided throughout the park. The lake is the same one the Indian Harbour Beach About page describes as ringed by exercise paths under Victorian lights, and the city's Christmas In The Park tree is lit on it.

The Gleason Park page lists the city's Art and Crafts Show on the third Saturday in November and Christmas In The Park, whose tree is lit on the park lake.

The Gleason Park page lists the annual Art and Crafts Show on the third Saturday in November, Breakfast With The Easter Bunny, Trunk-or-Treat and pool activities, and calls Christmas In The Park the city's premiere event, with a lit tree on the lake, caroling and children's shows. The Indian Harbour Beach Recreation page adds that Santa arrives on the city's 1960 American LaFrance fire truck. For dates and sign-ups, the Gleason Park Recreation office answers at 321-773-0552.

The park has seen recent work. The minutes of the December 9, 2025 council meeting, printed in the January 13, 2026 Indian Harbour Beach council packet, record a city manager report that the Gleason Park playground replacement had recently been installed. The city manager's January 2026 report in the same packet said the Tree Preservation Board had moved the city's 4th Annual Arbor Day celebration to Saturday, March 28, in Gleason Park, to avoid Easter weekend.

The Recreation Center in Gleason Park is also the base for city classes. Beyond the toddler and preschool classes and the Senior Leisure-time Club named on the departments page, the Gleason Park page lists the IHB Garden Club in its description of Recreation Department offerings.

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by re-reading the Gleason Park, swimming pool, facility rentals and Recreation pages on the Indian Harbour Beach city website.