Port St. Lucie Riverwalk Boardwalk

The Riverwalk Boardwalk follows the North Fork of the St. Lucie River in central Port St. Lucie between Tom Hooper Park, near Port St. Lucie Boulevard, and Veterans Park at Rivergate on SE Veterans Memorial Parkway (The Boardwalk, City of Port St. Lucie).

The city lists the boardwalk itself at 2200 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway, Port St. Lucie 34952, the same address as Veterans Park at Rivergate (The Boardwalk page). Its northern trailhead is Tom Hooper Park at 2340 S.E. Rivergate Pkwy., whose city page places the lighted boardwalk entrance behind the Walgreens at Port St. Lucie Blvd. and Veteran's Memorial Pkwy. (Tom Hooper Park page).

End to end, the Port St. Lucie route is about 4,300 feet on the Boardwalk park page (Boardwalk page), which the city's August 2025 completion story also describes as more than three-quarters of a mile of uninterrupted walking from Rivergate Park to the preservation tract (city news, Aug. 8, 2025). The rest of the riverfront district it belongs to, including Pioneer Park, The Preserve and the history museum, is covered in the Port District guide.

Both ends of the Port St. Lucie boardwalk have city parking: Tom Hooper Park is listed as a wetland preserve with parking, and Veterans Park at Rivergate has lighted car and trailer parking beside its boat ramps (Veterans Park at Rivergate page).

The rows above come from the Tom Hooper Park page, the Veterans Park at Rivergate page and the Boardwalk page. For a walk with restrooms at hand, the south end is the one the Port St. Lucie pages equip with ADA unisex restrooms; the Tom Hooper Park listing names parking, trails and open space but no restroom (Tom Hooper Park page).

Tom Hooper Park is a Port St. Lucie wetland preserve established in 2003 that serves as the boardwalk's northern gateway, with a leisure walk and an uncovered 30-foot octagon deck on the river (Tom Hooper Park page).

The park page gives its size as 12 acres of wetland preserve with parking and lists fishing as permitted, with Parks and Recreation at 772-878-2277 as the contact (Tom Hooper Park page).

The same master plan lists Tom Hooper Family Park, along with Veterans Park at Rivergate, among parks whose amenities are approaching the end of their use life (master plan update).

Veterans Park at Rivergate, 21.5 acres on the Port St. Lucie riverfront, adds three boat ramps, a large pavilion, three family pavilions and the Pearl Harbor Memorial Monument to the south end of the boardwalk (Veterans Park at Rivergate page).

The Rivergate park page details a large pavilion of 26 by 52 feet with ten 6-foot tables and one 8-foot table, lights, electricity, water and a large grill, plus three family pavilions of 20 by 18 feet with lights (park page). It lists a handicapped boat entry lift available through Parks and Recreation staff and describes its stretch of the Riverwalk Boardwalk as a lighted boardwalk through natural habitat, with fishing (park page).

The Port St. Lucie park page gives the park's establishment year as 1984, while the master plan's facilities inventory, under its Year Established column, lists 1983 (park page; master plan inventory).

Yes: the Port St. Lucie Boardwalk page describes the boardwalk as popular for fishing, in the center of town, and fishing is permitted at both trailhead parks (Boardwalk page).

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection lists Veterans Park at Rivergate as a parking and boat ramp access point for the North Fork, St. Lucie Aquatic Preserve and tells preserve visitors to follow current FWC saltwater fishing regulations (FDEP, North Fork St. Lucie Aquatic Preserve). Species the department lists for the preserve include snapper, snook, mullet, tarpon and drum, along with blue crab and shrimp (FDEP preserve page).

Boaters launch from the three Veterans Park at Rivergate ramps rather than from the boardwalk, and the city lists those ramps as open 24/7 with lighted trailer parking (Veterans Park at Rivergate page).

The boardwalk is reached through wooded mangroves on the North Fork, and the state aquatic preserve on that river lists Veterans Park at Rivergate among its access points (FDEP, North Fork St. Lucie Aquatic Preserve).

The Port St. Lucie Boardwalk page says two paths lead through hundreds of feet of wooded mangroves to the 10-foot-wide boardwalk and observation deck (Boardwalk page). The Florida Department of Environmental Protection dates the North Fork preserve designation to 1972, for about 16 miles of the river, lists the preserve at 2,972 acres in St. Lucie and Martin counties, and describes freshwater tidal swamps, estuarine mangrove forests and oyster reefs, with red, black and white mangroves (FDEP preserve page).

Among the animals FDEP lists for the preserve are bottlenose dolphins, manatees, river otters, wading birds and the American alligator (FDEP preserve page). The August 2025 Port St. Lucie completion story adds that the boardwalk, raised from two feet above the high-tide line to six feet, provides more consistent shade that helps seagrass along the shoreline become better established (city news, Aug. 8, 2025).

The City of Port St. Lucie lists the boardwalk, Tom Hooper Park and Veterans Park at Rivergate as open 24/7, and the boardwalk is lighted (Boardwalk page).

Lighting and thermoplastic handrails are part of the structure, which the Boardwalk page says is made of recycled materials, and the same page links a Live Boardwalk Cam (Boardwalk page). Questions go to Parks and Recreation at 772-878-2277, the contact on all three park pages (Veterans Park at Rivergate page).

Other city parks and trails appear in the Port St. Lucie parks hub. Last verified: October 22, 2026, against the city's Boardwalk, Tom Hooper Park and Veterans Park at Rivergate pages, its August 2025 completion story, the master plan inventory and the FDEP North Fork preserve page, for every address, size, year and posted hour.