Jaycee Park, Port St. Lucie

Jaycee Park in Port St. Lucie is a 6.2-acre city neighborhood park at 1301 SW Bayshore Boulevard with two pavilions, a small baseball field, a playground for ages 2 to 12, ADA restrooms and a YMCA branch building.

The city's Jaycee Park page lists the details. The two pavilions each measure 24 by 16 feet and hold four 8-foot tables; one has two small grills and the other a single small grill. The page notes that both pavilions now have electric service, but that no water is available. The baseball field is small and has a backstop, and the parking area is unmanned.

The Port St. Lucie park sits in the 34983 ZIP code, with 772-878-2277, the Parks and Recreation line, listed for park matters and posted hours of 8 a.m. to sunset (city park page). The department FAQ sets the same closing time, sunset, for every neighborhood and nature park in the city (Parks and Recreation FAQ).

This Port St. Lucie park on Bayshore Boulevard shares only a name with the Jaycee Park that the City of Fort Pierce lists at S Ocean Dr and Melaleuca Dr (Fort Pierce city parks listing), which has its own guide.

Yes: the city park page says Jaycee Park is home to a YMCA branch and gives 772-878-7337 for YMCA hours and programs.

City planning documents carry the branch in the park's name. The comprehensive plan inventory lists the site as Jaycee Park w/ YMCA (Recreation and Open Space Element), while the evaluation table in the 2025 parks master plan labels it Jaycee Park and YMCA Branch (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, 2025). The Jaycee Park page sends questions about the branch's own schedule to that YMCA number rather than to Parks and Recreation.

The building is the part of the Port St. Lucie park the city has flagged. In the plan's own 2025 wording, while most of the City's park buildings scored well, "two buildings in particular are in need of improvements," the Jaycee Park building and Minsky Gym, and "These buildings are reaching the end of their functional life and should be considered for improvements, potentially complete renovations" (master plan update, building conditions).

The Port St. Lucie park page and the master plan give 6.2 acres and 1983, and the comprehensive plan also gives 6.2 acres; the master plan calls it a Neighborhood park and the comprehensive plan a Large Neighborhood Park for active recreation.

Notes under Table 7-1 decode the letters: LNP means Large Neighborhood Park and A means Active Recreation (Recreation and Open Space Element). The same element describes Large Neighborhood Parks as typically 6 to 14 acres, built for play fields, playgrounds, courts and picnic areas, and meant to serve residents within a 1 to 1 1/2 mile radius. The inventory gives the Jaycee Park address as 1301 SW Bayshore Boulevard.

The master plan row for Jaycee Park records the 6.2 acres, the 1983 year and the Neighborhood class, followed by amenity counts (master plan update inventory).

Parks like Jaycee count toward the citywide parkland standard in the same element. Port St. Lucie's adopted level of service for developed public park or recreation facilities is 5.0 acres per 1,000 people, and the element reports that the city's 1,514.68 inventoried park acres provided approximately 7.5 acres for every 1,000 residents in 2020, above that standard through the short and long term planning periods (Recreation and Open Space Element).

The 2025 master plan update names Jaycee Park on three Port St. Lucie site condition lists: amenities, furnishings, and landscapes and hardscapes, each with a 1 to 3 year horizon in the plan's wording.

In its site conditions findings, the Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, 2025 names Jaycee Park, alongside McChesney Park and Whispering Pines Park, in three findings: parks that "have amenities that are approaching the end of their use life and need to be replaced in the next 1 to 3 years," parks with furnishings "approaching the end of their use life," and parks with "landscapes and hardscapes that have to be refreshed and improved in the next 1 to 3 years." The plan says those strengths and opportunities feed the vision phase, where staff and consultants shape park-specific recommendations.

The evaluation table gives the same picture in numbers. The Jaycee Park and YMCA Branch row, classed Neighborhood, scores 1.5 for its site amenities, where the Figure 2.26 legend treats 1.0 as the low end and 3.0 as the top (Figure 2.26 park evaluations). The Jaycee Park page notes that both pavilions now have electric service available.

Port St. Lucie pavilions are reserved through the Reservations and Rentals page or the Parks and Rec App, or in person at the PSL Community Center, and the Jaycee Park shelters have power but no water.

The Parks and Recreation FAQ says the app can be used to reserve pavilions and check availability, that water features are not permitted with pavilion rentals, that bounce houses are allowed through approved vendors, and that alcohol needs an approved permit. Walk-in booking is possible too: the Special Events Department FAQ names the PSL Community Center counter as the in-person option, lists 772-878-2277 and ECCommCenter@cityofpsl.com for questions, and exempts gatherings held in City parks from the special event permit.

Other Port St. Lucie park rules from the same FAQ apply at Jaycee Park: no overnight parking unless posted, smoking and e-cigarettes only in designated areas, and no metal detecting, because City Code Chapter 96.20(C) bars digging and removing natural materials (Parks and Recreation FAQ). Other neighborhood parks and shelters are listed on the city parks section of this site.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, when the Jaycee Park listing on Bayshore Boulevard was checked line by line against the city park page, the department FAQ, the master plan building and site findings, Table 7-1 with its legend, and the Special Events booking answer.