Oak Hammock Park, Port St. Lucie

Oak Hammock Park is a 48.7-acre Port St. Lucie park with a C-24 canal boat ramp, two fishing piers, a pavilion, a playground and about three miles of hammock trails (Oak Hammock Park page).

Every row comes from the detailed amenity list on the Port St. Lucie park page, which also tags Oak Hammock Park as autism friendly and lists ADA restrooms, picnic tables and a BBQ grill in its facility snapshot (Oak Hammock Park page). The page gives the year the park was established as 2000 (Oak Hammock Park page).

Oak Hammock Park is at 1982 SW Villanova Road, Port St. Lucie 34953, and its own city page lists hours of 7 a.m. to sunset (Oak Hammock Park page).

The general Port St. Lucie park rules print a different opening time. The Parks and Recreation FAQ lists neighborhood and nature parks as open from 8 a.m. to sunset and community parks from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ). The two city pages print different opening times, and both list 772-878-2277 as the contact number (Oak Hammock Park page; Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ).

The Port St. Lucie Recreation and Open Space Element lists the same 1982 SW Villanova Road address for Oak Hammock Park (Port St. Lucie Recreation and Open Space Element). The Oak Hammock facility snapshot adds a boat and canoe launch, a garden, open space and fishing to its list of amenities, alongside the parking area counted in the 48.7 acres (Oak Hammock Park page).

No: the Oak Hammock Park ramp sits on the C-24 canal west of the spillway, and the city states it has no river or ocean access (City of Port St. Lucie Oak Hammock Park page).

In the city-wide Parks and Recreation FAQ, Oak Hammock Park is one of three city boat launches and the only one marked with no river access; the FAQ gives Veterans Park at Rivergate 24/7 river and ocean access (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ).

The C-24 Canal Park page, at 500 SE Oakridge Drive, gives its own figures for that launch, which differ from the FAQ: four ramp lanes, direct river and ocean access, roughly 74 spaces for vehicles with trailers, and 8 a.m. to sunset hours seven days a week (Port St. Lucie C-24 Canal Park page).

What the Oak Hammock ramp does offer is room to park: twelve car and trailer spaces, according to the city page (Oak Hammock Park page), and a parking area with space for 12 trailers, according to the Port St. Lucie master plan update (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update).

Visitors to Oak Hammock Park walk, bicycle and fish there, and dogs may be walked on a leash in designated areas along the C-24 canal (City of Port St. Lucie Oak Hammock Park page).

The roughly three miles of trail run through large oak and palm hammocks, and a butterfly garden sits beside them (Oak Hammock Park page). The Port St. Lucie master plan update counts Oak Hammock Park as one of three parks the department designates as nature preserves, alongside Mariposa Cane Slough Preserve and McCarty Ranch Preserve (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update).

Anglers have two piers, one with a fish cleaning station (Oak Hammock Park page). The city-wide Parks and Recreation FAQ says catch-and-release fishing is allowed at all Port St. Lucie parks (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ), and lists 772-878-2277 for Parks and Recreation questions (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ).

Fishing from the Oak Hammock Park piers also falls under state license rules. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission lists youth under 16 years of age, and resident seniors age 65 or older with proof of age or residency, among the people exempt from recreational fishing license requirements; the same page sets out who else needs a license before fishing in Port St. Lucie or anywhere in Florida (FWC, Do I need a license?).

The Port St. Lucie master plan update lists Oak Hammock Park as a Preserve established in 2000, while the 2020 element codes it CP-P, a community park used for predominately passive recreation (master plan; element).

The element defines community parks as typically at least 15 acres and designed to serve several neighborhoods, and it adds the P suffix for predominately passive recreation (Port St. Lucie Recreation and Open Space Element). Both documents agree on the size, 48.7 acres (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update; Port St. Lucie Recreation and Open Space Element).

Port St. Lucie held an Oak Hammock Park FRDAP grant workshop on Sept. 24, 2024, and surveyed residents on the three playground and exercise features they valued most (City of Port St. Lucie Oak Hammock Park page).

FRDAP, the grant program behind that Port St. Lucie workshop, is the Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program, which state law lets the Department of Environmental Protection run to give grants to local governments for public outdoor recreation land. Section 375.075 caps each project grant at $200,000 in state funds and limits a local government to two applications per period (Florida Statutes section 375.075).

The Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Master Plan 5-year Update, a 2025 final report, lists Oak Hammock Park among parks with amenities and furnishings approaching the end of their use life, a list that also names McChesney Park, Whispering Pines Park and Veterans Park at Rivergate (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update). Its park recommendations for Oak Hammock read: replace pavilion, restroom, playground, and add playground shade structure; replace and expand maintenance building and storage shed; replace baseline amenities and furnishings; improve fencing and parking. Its natural area list adds a formal entrance with on-street parking, a nature kiosk, signage and wayfinding, nature trails, furnishings, invasive plant removal and selective clearing (Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update).

The Port St. Lucie parks hub compares Oak Hammock with the city's other launches, courts and preserves. Last verified: October 22, 2026, through new reads of the Oak Hammock Park page, the department FAQ, the master plan update, the Recreation and Open Space Element and section 375.075.