Sandhill Crane Park

Sandhill Crane Park is a 19-acre Port St. Lucie community park at 2355 SE Scenic Park Drive with three lighted softball fields, four lighted racquetball courts, three lighted sand volleyball courts, two pavilions and a fenced playground.

The city's park page dates the park to 1992 and lists fishing in the drainage canal, a multi-purpose fenced playground for ages 2 to 12 near the large pavilion, an outdoor shower beside the sand volleyball courts, parking and free wifi (City of Port St. Lucie, Sandhill Crane Park). The page also notes that the park is equipped with a lightning protection system. Sandhill Crane Park opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 10 p.m., with the sports lights shut off at a 9:30 p.m. curfew, and the park lists 772-878-2277 as its contact line.

The U.S. Census Bureau geocoder matches 2355 SE SCENIC PARK DR, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34952 inside the incorporated place Port St. Lucie city (U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Incorporated Places layer).

At Sandhill Crane, fields one and two measure 300 feet and field three measures 325 feet, and the three fields use 60, 65 and 70 foot bases.

All three Sandhill Crane diamonds carry sports lighting, according to the park's detailed amenity list (Sandhill Crane Park, Detailed Amenities). The page sets the sports light curfew for this Port St. Lucie park at 9:30 p.m., while the park itself stays open until 10 p.m. Along with the diamonds, the page lists a baseball field tag and BBQ grill in its facility snapshot.

The Port St. Lucie rentals page names Sandhill Crane on its baseball and softball lining row, alongside Jessica Clinton, Lyngate, Sportsman's, Whispering Pines, Turtle Run and Charles E. Ray, at $10.56 before tax and $11.30 with tax per lining (City of Port St. Lucie, Reservations and Rentals, Sports/Athletic Field Rentals). Lights on a baseball or softball field are billed per field, per hour, at $4.88 before tax and $5.22 with tax. Both figures are given as posted on October 22, 2026.

The city's rental rules cover athletic fields and park pavilions, and the Sandhill Crane page marks only its small family pavilion as not reserved.

The 20-foot family pavilion sits between the racquetball and volleyball courts with a single 4-foot table and carries the not reserved note, while the 57-foot octagon near the playground has lights, power, water and a large grill (Sandhill Crane Park, pavilions). Shelter bookings go through the city online or at the PSL Community Center; diamond bookings are in person only. Port St. Lucie's rental table lists $20.28 before tax for a group pavilion 3-hour minimum and $20.28 for a sports field with lights (Reservations and Rentals, Park Pavilions and Field Rentals).

As a community park, Sandhill Crane can be booked no more than 90 days out. Teams planning weekend softball need their request in by 8 p.m. on the Wednesday before, and weekday use needs three days of notice. Schools registered with the state play free on city sports fields for group use, though they still pay for lining and lights. Tournaments need approval from the department and a completed facility request form before the city confirms them.

Port St. Lucie records also show racquetball at the Ravenswood Racquetball Courts on SW Ravenswood Lane and at Lyngate Park, both named in the master plan's improvement table.

In the Port St. Lucie comprehensive plan's park inventory, Ravenswood Racquetball Courts appear as a 1-acre SNP-A site at 400 SW Ravenswood Lane (Recreation and Open Space Element, park inventory), and the Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update inventory records it at 1.0 acre with a 1982 date in the Neighborhood class. For Ravenswood, the plan's improvement table suggests adding parking, improving the racquetball courts and improving landscaping, walkways and parking; for Lyngate Park and Dog Park, it suggests improving the racquetball courts and sand volleyball court among other items (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, potential park improvements).

The Lyngate Park and Dog Park page lists four racquetball courts with lights at 1301 S.E. Lyngate Drive, along with two ball fields, two lighted tennis courts and a dog park (City of Port St. Lucie, Lyngate Park and Dog Park).

The Port St. Lucie master plan's dwell time review puts Ravenswood Racquetball Courts at 105 minutes, in the mid-range group, against Sandhill Crane's 121 minutes. A separate Digital Towns guide covers Lyngate Park.

The Port St. Lucie parks master plan counts 59,383 resident visits and 20,461 unique visitors at Sandhill Crane, and records an average stay of 121 minutes, one of the three highest dwell times the plan names.

The plan's dwell time review lists the highest average dwell times at McCarty Ranch Park, 155 minutes, Sandhill Crane, 121 minutes, and Saints Golf Course, 116 minutes (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, Average Dwell Time). In the ranking by PSL resident visits, Sandhill Crane's 59,383 places it with the PSLPRD at MIDFLORIDA Event Center at 79,452 and Turtle Run at 71,305 in a group the plan calls lower but still notable. The system leader in total 2024 visits is Whispering Pines Park, at 684,317.

The visitors analysis in the same Port St. Lucie plan, which counts unique individuals no matter how often each returns, records 20,461 visitors at Sandhill Crane and states that it and Swan Park, at 24,608, appear underutilized relative to their potential, especially given their central locations or unique features. At the top of that visitors count are Whispering Pines Park with 84,552, Pioneer Park with 77,234 and the Botanical Gardens with 62,402, with McChesney Park at 57,185 among the mid-tier parks. Separate Digital Towns guides cover McCarty Ranch Preserve and Turtle Run Park.

The Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update suggests improving the dugouts, playground, sports lighting, site lighting, fencing and parking at Sandhill Crane Park and adding a playground shade structure.

Those items appear in the plan's table of potential park site improvements, which the plan says should go through a public engagement process before going ahead (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, Existing Park Site Needs and Improvements). The plan's inventory lists the park at 19.0 acres, established in 1992, in the Community class, and its site conditions review lists Sandhill Crane Park with the parks whose furnishings need replacing in the next 1 to 3 years.

The Recreation and Open Space Element of the Port St. Lucie comprehensive plan lists Sandhill Crane Park at 19 acres under the CP-A designation at 2355 SE Scenic Park Drive (Recreation and Open Space Element, park inventory). Under that element, a community park is typically a minimum of 15 acres and may hold lighted athletic fields for night play, a recreation center and a swimming pool.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, through a fresh read of the Sandhill Crane amenity and hours list, the lining, lighting and pavilion rows of the rental tables, the master plan's dwell time, visitor and improvement passages, the Scenic Park Drive inventory row and a geocoder match.