Girl Scout Friendship Park, Port St. Lucie

Girl Scout Friendship Park is an 8.4-acre City of Port St. Lucie park with a cricket ball field, a ball field with backstop, a large open grass area, a fenced playground for ages 2 to 12, one small pavilion and an ADA unisex restroom.

The detailed amenity list on the city's Girl Scout Friendship Park page lists one small pavilion, given as 15 x 20, with water, two tables and one grill, and notes that electric service is available on the restroom building. The page lists the park as unmanned, with a parking area. The facility snapshot on the same Port St. Lucie page tags the site Baseball Field, BBQ Grill, Open Space, Parking, Pavilions, Picnic Tables, Playground and Restrooms (ADA).

The park dates from 1992 according to that page, and its listed contact number is 772-878-2277. The playground fence and the ADA unisex restroom both appear on the Port St. Lucie amenity list.

Yes: the City of Port St. Lucie lists a cricket ball field at Girl Scout Friendship Park, next to a separate ball field with a backstop and a large open space grass area.

The cricket ground appears as its own line in the amenity list on the Girl Scout Friendship Park page. The facility snapshot on the same Port St. Lucie page tags the site Baseball Field.

Cricket also appears in the city's parks planning. In the 2025 master plan update, an action under programming lists sports to explore for seniors, adults, teens and youth, among them pickleball, softball, rugby and lacrosse, cricket and kickball (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, 2025). The Port St. Lucie Sports Leagues page lists city leagues for girls flag football, junior basketball, kickball and adult softball, along with recognized user leagues for baseball, softball, football and soccer at other parks.

Girl Scout Friendship Park is at 315 NW Heather Street, Port St. Lucie 34983, and the city lists its hours as 8 a.m. to sunset.

The address appears on the park page, in the city's parks list of 51 sites and in the comprehensive plan inventory as 315 NW Heather Street (Recreation and Open Space Element, Table 7-1). The Census Bureau geocoder matches the address inside the incorporated place Port St. Lucie city, GEOID 1258715, in Census Tract 3815.05 of St. Lucie County (Census Geocoder result result).

Neighborhood and nature parks in Port St. Lucie all carry 8 a.m. to sunset in the Parks and Recreation FAQ, against 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for community parks (Parks and Recreation FAQ). The same FAQ says overnight parking is not allowed in parks unless otherwise posted.

All three Port St. Lucie records agree on 8.4 acres; the master plan dates the park to 1992 and calls it a Neighborhood park, while the comprehensive plan codes it LNP-A, a Large Neighborhood Park for active recreation.

Each row is drawn from the Heather Street park listing, the 2025 master plan inventory or the Recreation and Open Space Element. Notes under Table 7-1 define LNP as Large Neighborhood Park and A as Active Recreation. In the element, a Port St. Lucie Large Neighborhood Park typically runs 6 to 14 acres, with ball and soccer or football fields, playgrounds, courts and picnic areas meant for residents within about a mile and a half.

The 2025 plan's citywide acreage measure reports a 2025 acreage level of service of 8.5 acres per 1,000 residents in Port St. Lucie and a projected 6.9 acres per 1,000 in 2035, above the comprehensive plan target of 5.0 acres per 1,000 but below the national median of 8.4 acres cited in the plan (master plan update, level of service). The same analysis points to a need for more playgrounds, dog parks, splash pads, pickleball courts and athletic fields across the city.

The 2025 Port St. Lucie master plan update names Girl Scout Friendship Park in two lists of parks whose amenities, and whose furnishings, it says need to be replaced in the next 1 to 3 years.

Those two Port St. Lucie findings sit in the site conditions opportunities of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, 2025. The plan states that these strengths and opportunities will be considered in the vision phase to provide park specific recommendations in collaboration with staff.

Figure 2.26 of the same plan scores the Port St. Lucie park, classed Neighborhood, at 1.5 for site amenities, 1.9 for site furnishings, 2.2 for general hardscape and landscape and 1.9 for its site evaluation average, scored against a site legend that runs from 1.0 for poor through 2.0 for fair to 3.0 for excellent (Figure 2.26 park system evaluations).

The Port St. Lucie Reservations and Rentals page, as posted on October 22, 2026, lists a 3-hour minimum of $11.36 before tax for a Family Pavilion and $20.28 before tax for a Group Pavilion, with each additional hour at $10.42 before tax.

The Reservations and Rentals page gives the rates including tax as $12.16 for a Family Pavilion and $21.70 for a Group Pavilion for the 3-hour minimum, and $11.15 for each additional hour; the park page describes the Girl Scout Friendship Park shelter as one small pavilion listed as 15 x 20. Fees are subject to Florida sales tax under Chapter 12A-1.001, payment is due in full at the time of reservation, and cash, check and credit card are accepted.

Pavilion reservations in Port St. Lucie are made online or in person at the PSL Community Center, not by phone, on a first-come, first-served basis. Neighborhood park pavilions can be booked up to 180 days ahead, and a booking made by 8 p.m. the day before can be used the next day if payment and paperwork are in (Reservations and Rentals). The page's maximum attendance table lists Girl Scout Friendship Park at 100 people, and in the same unmanned-facility rules it bars alcoholic beverages and petting zoos.

The Girl Scout Friendship Park fields can also be rented: the same page lists athletic fields without lights, described as practice or open space fields, at $16.24 before tax for a 3-hour minimum, with field reservations made in person at the Community Center. Schools as defined in section 1003.01, Florida Statutes, receive free use of city sports fields, though not pavilions. A cancellation made 15 days before the event earns a 50 percent refund; at 14 days or less there is no refund (Reservations and Rentals).

Other Port St. Lucie park rules in the Parks and Recreation FAQ apply here too: water features are not permitted with pavilion rentals, bounce houses are allowed only through approved vendors, smoking is limited to designated areas, and metal detectors are barred under City Code Chapter 96.20(C). Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the Heather Street park listing, the city FAQ, league list and rental rate table, the 2025 plan's inventory, findings and Figure 2.26 row, Table 7-1, and a fresh Census geocoder match for the address.