McChesney Park and Dog Park

McChesney Park is a 24.5-acre Port St. Lucie soccer park at 1585 SW Cashmere Blvd. with six lighted soccer fields, a fenced dog park, a lighted pavilion, a playground and a fishing lake.

The city's park page dates the park to 1995 and lists parking, the six soccer fields equipped with lights, a large 22 x 36 pavilion with lights, a fenced playground with a multi-purpose play unit for ages 2 to 12, ADA accessible restrooms, fishing in the on-site lake and free wifi (City of Port St. Lucie, McChesney Park and Dog Park). The pavilion holds three 6-foot tables, one 8-foot table and a small grill, and the page marks it electric only, with no water. Posted hours are 8 a.m. until 10 p.m., with the field lights under a 9:30 p.m. curfew, and its listed contact number is 772-878-2277.

The Cashmere Boulevard park also carries the city's autism friendly tag in its facility snapshot, which lists a BBQ grill, pet waste stations, picnic tables and a playground among the amenities. The page describes a concession stand with its own pavilion and six 6-foot tables, operated by the Mako Soccer Club, which the city names as the park's home club, and open during soccer events.

The McChesney Park dog park is a 3/4-acre area split into three separately fenced compounds, one each for small, medium and large dogs, with a shade structure and a water fountain.

The city page calls it the city's 3rd dog park and says it opened to the public on August 3, 2019 (McChesney Park and Dog Park, dog park rules). Every dog that visits must have a current license and current vaccinations, and dogs that are aggressive or in heat are not allowed. Owners are responsible for picking up after their pets, and the Port St. Lucie park provides pet waste stations with bags and disposal containers.

One practical limit stands out on the McChesney Park page: the dog park has no lights for nighttime use, while the soccer fields are lit and the park as a whole stays open until 10 p.m. The page lists no separate dog park hours. The dog park also has no listing of its own in the city's Reservations and Rentals tables, which cover pavilions, courts and athletic fields.

For comparison, Riverland Paseo Park at 12151 SW Community Blvd., which the city opened on July 30, 2024, has a 2-acre dog park with the same three-compound layout for small, medium and large breeds, and its city page posts separate dog park hours of 8 a.m. to sunset (City of Port St. Lucie, Riverland Paseo Park). Those posted hours belong to Riverland Paseo, not to McChesney Park.

Yes: Port St. Lucie rents its athletic fields in person at the PSL Community Center, with posted rates for a 3-hour block, extra hours, field lights and field lining, and McChesney is named on the soccer lining row.

On the Reservations and Rentals page, a 3-hour minimum for a sports or athletic field is listed at $20.28 before tax and $21.70 with tax, or $15.21 and $16.28 for non-profit and travel ball groups; each additional hour per field is $10.42, or $11.15 with tax (City of Port St. Lucie, Reservations and Rentals, Sports/Athletic Field Rentals). Lights on a soccer, football or multipurpose field are billed per field, per hour, at $8.64 before tax and $9.25 with tax. Lining a soccer, football, rugby or lacrosse field, on a row that names McChesney, Jessica Clinton, Sportsman's Park West, Woodland Trails, Whispering Pines, Charles E. Ray and Turtle Run, is $64.74 before tax and $69.27 with tax. All of these are the rates the city page showed on October 22, 2026.

The same Port St. Lucie page sets the booking windows. Field availability can be checked online, but the reservation itself is made in person; weekday reservations must be made three days before the reservation date, not counting that date, while a weekend booking has an 8 p.m. deadline on the preceding Wednesday. At community parks, playing fields and pavilions can be reserved only up to 90 days ahead. Under a fee waiver tied to F.S. 1003.01, schools (private, charter and home schools among them) that show proof of state registration may use city sports fields free for group use, though lining and light fees still apply.

Port St. Lucie pavilions are reserved online or at the PSL Community Center, at posted 3-hour minimums, as of October 22, 2026, of $20.28 before tax for a group pavilion and $11.36 for a family pavilion.

The McChesney page does not say which type its pavilion is. The rental rate table lists a group pavilion 3-hour minimum at $20.28, or $21.70 with tax, and a family pavilion at $11.36, or $12.16 with tax, plus and $15.21, or $16.28 with tax, for non-profit and travel ball groups, with each additional hour at $10.42 before tax (Reservations and Rentals, Park Pavilions). Next-day use can be booked until 8 p.m. the day before if payment and paperwork are received. All Port St. Lucie reservations are first-come, first-served, cannot be made over the phone and are paid in full when booked, by cash, check or credit card.

Holiday rules apply citywide: six holidays (Martin Luther King Day, Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day) add 50% to the rate, and the city takes no reservations on New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day. For refunds, Guest Services at the Port St. Lucie Community Center must be contacted in person or at 772-878-2277; a request made 15 days before the event earns a 50% refund, and one made 14 days or less before earns none.

McChesney Park recorded 601,992 visits in 2024 and is number 2, after Whispering Pines Park, on the high visitation list in the city's Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update.

Using cell phone data from Placer Labs, a private data firm the city contracted, the Master Plan Update reports that the parks and recreation system received 5,161,803 visits in 2024 and that the parks with the highest visitation were those associated with athletic facilities: Whispering Pines Park at 684,317 visits, McChesney at 601,992, Sportsman's Park at 379,046, Jessica Clinton Park at 323,500 and Pioneer Park at 244,202 for June 15 to Dec. 31 (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, Park Visitation Level of Service). Those counts use an enhanced Placer Labs method that counts each time someone entered or walked through a site. Under the earlier method, which counted only entries of at least 15 minutes, the same plan reports 3,300,205 system visits and 323,600 for McChesney Park.

In its site observations, the same Port St. Lucie plan lists McChesney Park among the parks with high levels of activity, together with the Botanical Gardens, the Community Center, Jessica Clinton Park, Pioneer Park, Sportsman's Park and Whispering Pines Park. Its inventory table records the park at 24.5 acres, established in 1995, in the Community class.

The Recreation and Open Space Element lists McChesney Park as a 24.5-acre soccer facility in the CP-A community park designation at 1585 SW Cashmere Boulevard.

In that element of the Port St. Lucie comprehensive plan, a community park is typically a minimum of 15 acres, may be tied to a school, can contain lighted athletic facilities for night games and is meant to draw from a 1 to 3 mile radius (Recreation and Open Space Element, park classes and inventory). The McChesney row carries the note SF (Soccer).

The U.S. Census Bureau geocoder matches the park address as 1585 SW CASHMERE BLVD, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34986 and places it in the incorporated place Port St. Lucie city, so the park is inside city limits (U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Incorporated Places layer).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the McChesney park and dog park page, the field and pavilion rate tables, the 2024 visitation ranking in the Master Plan Update, the comprehensive plan inventory row and a fresh Census geocoder match.