Lynne Manion Nungesser Park — Palm Bay, Florida

Lynne Manion Nungesser Park, at 1161 Lamplighter Dr NW in northwest Palm Bay, is a city ballpark with lighted baseball fields, lighted basketball and pickleball/tennis courts, a pond, a trail and a pavilion.

The City of Palm Bay facility directory lists the park at 1161 Lamplighter Dr NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907, phone (321) 952-3443, with hours of 7am until 10pm (City of Palm Bay facility directory). The amenity list names baseball fields, lighted baseball fields, lighted basketball courts, lighted pickleball/tennis courts, tennis courts, bike, hike and jogging trails, a pond, a pavilion, grills, picnic tables, a playground, restrooms, water fountains, a concrete walkway, mature shade trees and free Wi-Fi.

The city parks directory and the facility page both carry the full name, Lynne Manion Nungesser Park, while the rentals page and the reservation system use the short form Nungesser for the pavilion (City Parks directory).

The Census Bureau geocoder places 1161 Lamplighter Dr NW inside Palm Bay city limits, in Brevard County census tract 713.37 (Census Bureau geocoder). That makes it a City of Palm Bay park run by the Parks & Facilities Department, not a Brevard County park.

The City of Palm Bay uses the full name Lynne Manion Nungesser Park on its facility directory, its City Parks list and its park notices, and the short name Nungesser on its rentals page and pavilion reservation listing.

The facility directory entry lists Lynne Manion Nungesser Park at 1161 Lamplighter Dr NW, Palm Bay, FL 32907 (facility directory), and the City Parks directory carries the same name and address on its second page of listings (City Parks directory). The August 28, 2026 basketball court notice also uses the full name in its title and gives the location as 1161 Lamplighter Drive NW (City of Palm Bay notice, August 28, 2026).

The short name appears where the pavilion is rented. The rentals page lists the shelter only as Nungesser, in its own price class (Palm Bay Recreation rentals). The WebTrac reservation system names the shelter Nungesser Park Pavilion and gives its location as Lynne Manion Nungesser Park, 1161 Lamplighter Drive NW, with the phone (321) 952-3231 (Nungesser Park Pavilion on WebTrac). Both names refer to the same park at the same address.

Palm Bay West Little League uses Lynne Manion Nungesser Park and Lynbrook Park as its home fields, according to the City of Palm Bay athletic leagues page.

The city lists youth baseball under its community partners: Palm Bay East Little League at Knecht Park and Palm Bay West Little League (PBWLL) at Lynne Manion Nungesser Park and Lynbrook Park (City of Palm Bay Athletic Leagues).

The athletic leagues page refers families to the league by email and through the PBWLL website. The Nungesser Park amenity list includes both baseball fields and lighted baseball fields (facility directory).

Outside league play, the city rents its ballfields directly. The Palm Bay rentals page says ballfield rentals must be approved by the Athletics Supervisor and cost $15 per hour plus tax, field lights add $30 per hour plus tax, and organized practices or games require liability insurance (Palm Bay Recreation rentals). The same page warns that the city ball fields are kept very busy during the season.

Pet policy is not posted for this park. The Nungesser Park listing does not mark the park as pet friendly, unlike several other Palm Bay parks in the same directory (City Parks directory). Park questions go to the Parks & Facilities Department at (321) 726-2777, the contact on the city court notice (City of Palm Bay notice).

Yes: Lynne Manion Nungesser Park has lighted courts listed for both pickleball and tennis, plus tennis courts and lighted basketball courts that were scheduled for resurfacing in September 2026.

Shared courts matter because dedicated Palm Bay pickleball courts had not been built as of April 2026. During public comment at the Recreation Advisory Board session of April 7, 2026, held at City Hall, 120 Malabar Road, a USA Pickleball ambassador from West Melbourne noted that City Council approved dedicated courts in July 2024 and said Palm Bay residents travel to West Melbourne to play (Recreation Advisory Board minutes, April 7, 2026, page 1).

The city's planned pickleball courts are at Fred Poppe Regional Park. In October 2025, staff presented the final draft of the Fred Poppe Regional Park Master Plan, and its highest priority was pickleball courts, ahead of an amphitheater and event lawn (Recreation Advisory Board minutes, October 2025, page 2).

Basketball was next. Palm Bay posted on August 28, 2026 that the Nungesser basketball courts would shut on Tuesday, September 1, with reopening targeted for Friday, September 11 if weather and conditions allowed (City of Palm Bay notice, August 28, 2026). The same item ran in the news list on the Palm Bay Recreation page (Palm Bay Recreation). Questions about the courts go to Parks & Facilities at (321) 726-2777.

Renting the Nungesser Park pavilion costs $75 a day plus tax, and it is the only pavilion in the city's Large Pavilion Rentals without Amenities class.

Palm Bay sorts its pavilions into price classes on the Recreation rentals page, and the class called Large Pavilion Rentals without Amenities holds a single site, Nungesser (Palm Bay Recreation rentals). The page says bookings are taken in order of request, usually as far as a year out, each renter is pre-approved and signs a contract, and holiday dates are open for pavilions even when community centers close.

The WebTrac listing for the shelter spells out the limits (Nungesser Park Pavilion on WebTrac). A grill comes with it and the seating is for roughly 50, so a party of more than 50 cannot book it. The system stops online requests inside 5 days of the event and refuses dates more than 365 days away. Bookings from March through October must end by 8:00 pm, while November through February and every Sunday the cutoff is 5:00 pm.

WebTrac lists (321) 952-3231 for this shelter, the number the rentals page gives for the Ted Whitlock Community Center at 1951 Malabar Rd. NW; the other center is the Tony Rosa Community Center at 1502 Port Malabar Blvd. NE, (321) 952-3443 (rentals page). Last verified: October 12, 2026, against the Nungesser Park listing, WebTrac and the Recreation rentals page on the City of Palm Bay website.