Goode Park — Palm Bay, Florida

Goode Park is a City of Palm Bay waterfront park at 1300 Bianca Dr NE with a boat ramp, a dock, a rental pavilion, a playground and the Captain's House event hall on Turkey Creek.

The Palm Bay parks directory lists Goode Park at 1300 Bianca Dr NE Palm Bay, FL 32905, with the phone number (321) 952-3443 (City of Palm Bay parks directory). The same listing gives the amenities in one line: benches, a boat ramp, a dock, electricity, grills, parking, a pavilion, picnic tables, a playground, rentals, restrooms and water fountains, and it marks the site as located on Turkey Creek.

The city facility page for Goode Park gives hours of 7am until sunset (City of Palm Bay facility page, Goode Park), and the same page repeats the boat ramp, the dock and the Turkey Creek location among its amenities.

The Captain's House shares the 1300 Bianca Drive address. The city describes it as a venue overlooking Turkey Creek with plenty of parking, a large dock and boat ramp (City of Palm Bay facility page, Captain's House), and the PlayOnline listing places the hall inside Goode Park (PlayOnline, Captain's House). The Captain's House listing on the city facility directory also gives the hall the same phone number as the park, (321) 952-3443.

Goode Park is one of the Palm Bay parks with a public boat ramp and dock, and a state manatee protection rule makes Turkey Creek downstream of Melbourne-Tillman Drainage District structure MS-1 a year-round idle speed zone.

Palm Bay's parks directory lists the boat ramp and the dock among the Goode Park amenities and places the park on Turkey Creek (City of Palm Bay parks directory). The Captain's House listing repeats the large dock and boat ramp as part of the venue setting (Captain's House facility page). No launch fee appears for Goode Park on the Palm Bay Recreation fee schedule pages that cover the park's pavilion and hall (Resolution 2025-31, Exhibit A).

Boat speed on Turkey Creek is covered by a state rule. Florida Administrative Code Rule 68C-22.006, the Brevard County manatee protection zone rule, lists Turkey Creek in its idle speed category, which carries the label Idle Speed (All Year, except as noted) (Rule 68C-22.006, Brevard County Zones). The zone covers Turkey Creek north and east (downstream) of Melbourne-Tillman Drainage District structure MS-1, out to a line across the creek mouth.

That mouth line is drawn between two named Palm Bay shoreline points. The rule describes it as running from the southeasternmost point of Castaway Point to the northeasternmost point of Palm Bay Point, at the mouth of Turkey Creek (Rule 68C-22.006). The Goode Park and Captain's House pages from Palm Bay do not restate the rule, so the rule itself is the reference for anyone running a boat out of the Goode Park ramp toward the lagoon.

The Goode Park pavilion rents for $90 a day plus tax as one of Palm Bay's large pavilions with electric, seats about 50 people and is booked through the city's PlayOnline reservation system.

Large Pavilion Rentals with Electric (Fred Lee #1, Goode, Knecht #1, and McGriff) are $90 a day plus tax, according to the Palm Bay Recreation rentals page (City of Palm Bay rentals page). The fee schedule adopted by the Palm Bay City Council in Resolution 2025-31 keeps the same $90 rate in both the FY 25 and FY 26 columns for that pavilion class (Resolution 2025-31, page 6).

The PlayOnline listing for the Goode Park pavilion spells out what the fee covers. The pavilion seats approximately 50 people and has a grill, restrooms, and water fountain, and electricity is included in the rental fee (PlayOnline, Goode Park Pavilion). Water hookup is not an amenity available with the Goode Park pavilion rental, which separates it from the $105 class of Palm Bay pavilions that come with both electric and water.

The booking rules in the Goode Park listing set the limits:

Those cutoffs come from the restrictions printed on the Goode Park pavilion page (PlayOnline, Goode Park Pavilion). Palm Bay Recreation adds that pavilions are available 7 days a week from dawn to dusk and can be rented on holidays, unlike the indoor halls (Palm Bay rentals page).

The Captain's House at Goode Park rents for $250 plus tax on weekdays and $500 plus tax on weekends, with a $300 security deposit, and holds about 110 guests with a dance floor or 150 without.

Palm Bay Recreation markets the hall for weddings and graduation parties and asks for a $300 security deposit at the time of contract (City of Palm Bay rentals page). The PlayOnline listing gives the rate in hours: The rental fee is a flat rate of $500 plus tax for up to 14 hours Saturday or Sunday, and $250 plus tax for up to 9 hours Monday through Friday (PlayOnline, Captain's House). The Captain's House is available Monday through Friday from 3 PM to midnight and on Saturday and Sunday from 10 AM to midnight.

Those rates rose on October 1, 2025. Resolution 2025-31, adopted by the Palm Bay City Council and effective that day, shows both fiscal years side by side for the Captain's House Banquet Facility (Resolution 2025-31, page 5):

Capacity is set by the room layout. The Captain's House hold approximately 110 people when using a dance floor and 150 without, according to the city facility page (Captain's House facility page), which also lists the hall as ADA accessible with meeting rooms, restrooms and picnic tables. Bookings run through the Tony Rosa Community Center at (321) 952-3443, the number the PlayOnline listing gives for checking dates (PlayOnline, Captain's House).

Two more rental rules apply. The Tony Rosa Community Center, Ted Whitlock Community Center, and Captain's House are not available for rent on City holidays or on selected dates of citywide events, a list that includes the Holiday Parade on the first Saturday of December (Palm Bay rentals page). Security deposits may take up to four weeks for refund, according to the same page.

Recent Palm Bay records show pier design work for the Captain's House and a Recreation Advisory Board meeting scheduled at the hall.

At its November 7, 2023 meeting, the Palm Bay Recreation Advisory Board heard a parks report that the Captain House Phase 1 drawing for the pier had been submitted (Recreation Advisory Board minutes, November 7, 2023, page 2). The same report noted the Castaway Park north pier as completed for final inspection. The minutes do not give a construction date or cost for the Captain's House pier, and no later completion notice was found on the city site during this check.

The hall has also been scheduled as a Palm Bay public meeting site. Minutes of the board's January 2, 2024 meeting record that the next meeting would be held on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 7:00 P.M. at the Captain's House, 1300 Bianca Drive NE (Recreation Advisory Board minutes, January 2, 2024, page 3).

Rates and rules on this page come from the Palm Bay rentals page, the PlayOnline listings and Resolution 2025-31; where the city pages differ, each figure is attributed to its own page. Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the City of Palm Bay Recreation and PlayOnline websites.