Jessica Clinton Park, Port St. Lucie

Jessica Clinton Park is a 20-acre City of Port St. Lucie community park with two lighted ball fields, a lighted multi-purpose turf field, two lighted tennis courts, four pickleball courts, a lighted basketball court, an inclusive playground and a lighted half mile perimeter trail.

The amenity list on the city's Jessica Clinton Park page gives the field sizes in its own shorthand: field one is "325 baseball/softball with 60 and 90 bases" and field two is "225 baseball/softball 60 or 70 bases." The lighted multi-purpose turf field area for soccer, rugby and football is listed as 325 x 425. A single large pavilion, listed as 30 x 52, has electric, water, eight tables and one grill.

The Port St. Lucie page also lists ADA restrooms, a memorial garden and plaza, free Wi-Fi and a Little Free Library, and its facility snapshot adds an outdoor fitness station and the autism friendly tag. Dogs are permitted on a leash around the outside perimeter sidewalk only, according to the same page.

The Jessica Clinton Park playground in Port St. Lucie is fenced and lighted and is designed, in the city's words, to accommodate children of all abilities, including those in wheelchairs or with other mobility concerns.

The Port St. Lucie city park page describes meandering climbing structures and wild slides for ages 5 to 12, and a colorful geometric structure for ages 2 to 5. At ground level there are basket swings, seats and hangout pods, a xylophone for sensory play, a large sky-surfer, a net and a crawl-through tube. Large signs of positive affirmations and sign language greet families.

The park carries the name of the person it honors, and the Port St. Lucie page explains that the hearts set into the soft play surface, like the hearts on the road in front of the park, honor her memory and promote a message of inclusion. The amenity list also names a Jessica Clinton Memorial Garden and Plaza (Jessica Clinton Park page).

The Port St. Lucie park page calls Jessica Clinton Park home to the Port St. Lucie Little League Softball League, and the city's Sports Leagues page also lists youth football and cheerleading at the park.

On the city Sports Leagues page, PSL Softball Little League appears with Jessica Clinton Park among the recognized user leagues for youth baseball and softball, which serve ages 4 to 16 at several Port St. Lucie parks. The same page says youth football and cheerleading programs for ages 4 to 15, including flag and tackle football, play at Sportsman's Park West and Jessica Clinton Park, and it lists the Treasure Coast Youth Football and Cheer Association at Jessica Clinton Park. Registration and schedules for these independent leagues run through the leagues, whose contacts the city page lists.

The field lining fees on the city rental page name Jessica Clinton Park in both lists: baseball and softball fields, and soccer, football, rugby and lacrosse fields (Reservations and Rentals).

Jessica Clinton Park is at 3200 SE Southbend Blvd., Port St. Lucie 34984, with posted hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and a 9:30 p.m. curfew on the sports lights.

The address, hours and two contact numbers, 772-878-2277 and 772-344-4150, appear on the park page. The Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ sets the same 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. hours for all community parks and says lighted courts close at 9:30 p.m. (Parks and Recreation FAQ). The comprehensive plan inventory writes the address as 3200 SE Southbend Boulevard (Recreation and Open Space Element, Table 7-1).

A Census Bureau geocoder lookup at the map point published on the park page returns the incorporated place Port St. Lucie city and Census Tract 3820.16 (Census Geocoder coordinate result), placing the park inside Port St. Lucie city limits on Southbend Boulevard.

Port St. Lucie's rental table, as posted on October 22, 2026, lists sports fields with lights at $20.28 before tax for a 3-hour minimum, plus $4.88 an hour per field for baseball or softball lights and $8.64 an hour for soccer, football or multipurpose lights.

The Reservations and Rentals page gives those field rates including tax as $21.70 for the 3-hour minimum, $5.22 an hour for diamond lights and $9.25 an hour for turf or multipurpose lights, with each additional hour per field at $10.42 before tax. Lining a baseball or softball field costs $10.56 before tax and lining a soccer, football, rugby or lacrosse field $64.74 before tax, with Jessica Clinton Park named in both lining lists. Non-profit and travel ball groups have their own rate columns in the same table.

The same Port St. Lucie table lists pavilion rentals for a 3-hour minimum as $11.36 before tax for the Family Pavilion class and $20.28 for the Group Pavilion class. At community parks such as Jessica Clinton Park, playing fields and pavilions may be reserved only up to 90 days in advance (Reservations and Rentals).

Field and court bookings in Port St. Lucie are made in person at the PSL Community Center: a weekday slot needs three days' notice, and a weekend slot must be booked by 8 p.m. on the Wednesday before. Six holidays named on the page carry a 50 percent surcharge, and the three it closes to bookings are New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day (Reservations and Rentals).

The 2025 Port St. Lucie master plan update lists Jessica Clinton Park at 20.0 acres, dated 2005 and classed Community, counts 323,500 visits there in 2024, and used it as one of three benchmark parks for rating the system.

The visitation figure comes from cell phone data the city obtained from Placer Labs; the master plan update reports 5,161,803 system visits in 2024 and ranks Jessica Clinton Park fourth among the most visited parks, behind Whispering Pines Park, William McChesney Park and Sportsman's Park and ahead of Pioneer Park, noting that the busiest parks were those associated with athletic facilities. The plan adds that its Pioneer Park figure covers June 15 to Dec. 31 and that a full year of Pioneer Park data, June 15, 2024 to June 15, 2025, shows 387,300 visits, which would make Pioneer Park the third most visited park in the city. The plan used Woodland Trails, Jessica Clinton and Pioneer Park as its measuring stick and rated the overall Port St. Lucie system in fair condition with a score of 3.3.

In Figure 2.26 of the same plan, Jessica Clinton Park scores 2.5 for site amenities, 2.8 for site furnishings, 2.9 for hardscape and landscape and 2.7 for its site evaluation average, on a site scale topping out at 3.0. Table 7-1 codes it CP-A, a Community Park for active recreation; in the element's definitions a Community Park is typically 15 acres or more, can include lighted athletic facilities for play after dark, and meant to serve several neighborhoods within a 1 to 3 mile radius (Recreation and Open Space Element). Last verified: October 22, 2026, after the Southbend Boulevard park page was read again along with, the league and rental pages, the community park hours in the FAQ, the 2025 plan's visitation list and evaluation row, Table 7-1 and a geocoder check of the park's map point.