Veterans Park at Rivergate, Port St. Lucie

Veterans Park at Rivergate is a 21.5-acre city park on SE Veterans Memorial Parkway in Port St. Lucie with boat ramps, pavilions, the Pearl Harbor Memorial Monument and a lighted riverside boardwalk used for fishing.

The city's Veterans Park at Rivergate page lists its amenities in detail. The largest shelter measures 26 by 52 feet and holds ten six-foot tables and one eight-foot table, with lights, electricity, water and a large grill. Three smaller family pavilions measure 20 by 18 feet each and have lights. Restrooms are ADA unisex, free Wi-Fi covers the site, and a handicapped boat entry lift is available by contacting Parks and Recreation staff.

The park's posted address is 2200 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway, Port St. Lucie 34952, its hours read Open 24/7, and the contact line is 772-878-2277 (city park page). The Pearl Harbor Memorial Monument stands on the grounds, and the amenity tags on the same Port St. Lucie page cover a barbecue grill, a boat and canoe launch, fishing, parking, pavilions, picnic tables, ADA restrooms, trails and free Wi-Fi.

Two Port St. Lucie documents disagree by one year: the park page says the park was established in 1984, while the 2025 parks master plan update lists 1983.

The 1984 year appears beside the address on the Veterans Park at Rivergate page. The master plan inventory row reads Veterans Park at Rivergate, 21.5 acres, 1983, Special Purpose (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, 2025). The comprehensive plan's park inventory agrees on the 21.5 acres and the 2200 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway address but gives no year (Recreation and Open Space Element). Neither city document explains the one-year difference.

City pages differ: the Veterans Park at Rivergate page counts three boat ramps open 24/7, while the Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation FAQ lists two ramps with round-the-clock access to the river and ocean.

The park page adds car and trailer parking with lights beside the ramps. The department FAQ calls Rivergate one of three city boat launches, alongside C-24 Canal Park, whose two ramps run from 7 a.m. to sunset, and Oak Hammock Park, which it marks as having no river access (Parks and Recreation FAQ). The same FAQ points anglers to the Rivergate boardwalk on the St. Lucie River for saltwater fishing and states that every city park allows fishing on a catch-and-release basis.

The ramps put boats into state-protected water. State aquatic preserve managers at the Florida Department of Environmental Protection name Veterans Park at Rivergate among the parking and boat ramp access points for the North Fork, St. Lucie Aquatic Preserve, a 16-mile portion of the North Fork designated in 1972 that covers 2,972 acres in St. Lucie and Martin counties (North Fork, St. Lucie Aquatic Preserve, FDEP). The agency asks boaters to follow current FWC boating and saltwater fishing regulations there and notes that seagrass is protected.

No: Veterans Memorial Park is a separate 2.5-acre Port St. Lucie park at 2100 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway, and it, not Rivergate, is where the city lists its annual Veterans Day ceremony.

The comprehensive plan inventory lists the two sites one after the other: Veterans @ Rivergate/Boat Ramps at 21.5 acres and 2200 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway, and Veteran's Memorial Park at 2.5 acres and 2100 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway (Recreation and Open Space Element). The master plan update dates Veterans Memorial Park to 1995 and classes both as Special Purpose (master plan update inventory). The Special Events Department places the city's Veterans Day ceremony at Veterans Memorial Park, 2100 S.E. Veterans Memorial Parkway, and advises guests to arrive early and bring a chair (Special Events Department page).

One city page gives Rivergate a different number. The River Nights event page tells visitors to park free at Veterans Park at Rivergate and gives its address as 2100 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway, the number the comprehensive plan assigns to Veterans Memorial Park (River Nights event page). The Rivergate park page itself uses 2200. The same River Nights page lists Tom Hooper Park, 2300 SE Rivergate Parkway, and the post office at 2255 SE Veterans Memorial Parkway as the other free lots for the Port District series.

Port St. Lucie park pavilions are booked online or in person at the PSL Community Center, and questions go to the Parks and Recreation Department at 772-878-2277.

That booking route comes from the FAQ on the Special Events Department page, which also gives ECCommCenter@cityofpsl.com as the contact and notes that events held at City parks or recreation facilities do not need a separate special event permit. The Veterans Park at Rivergate page links to the department's Reservations and Rentals section and lists the large pavilion with electricity and water and the three smaller family shelters with lights.

General park rules from the Parks and Recreation FAQ apply at Rivergate too: smoking, including e-cigarettes, is allowed only in designated areas. The department FAQ sets 8 a.m. to sunset for neighborhood and nature parks and 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. for community parks, while the Rivergate page itself lists the park as open 24/7.

The 2025 Port St. Lucie parks master plan update names Veterans Park at Rivergate among parks whose amenities are nearing the end of their use life and should be replaced within one to three years.

That finding appears in the site conditions section of the Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, 2025, which lists Veterans Park @ Rivergate with Whispering Pines Park, Jaycee Park, Oak Hammock Park and others under the opportunity to replace aging amenities. The same document's planning context section records that public access to water is provided at River Place Park, Veteran's Park at Rivergate and Tom Hooper Park, under the comprehensive plan's conservation and coastal management element.

In the Figure 2.26 park evaluation table, the Rivergate row is classed Special and posts a site amenities average of 1.3, on a site scale whose legend marks 3.0 as excellent and 1.0 as poor (master plan update, Figure 2.26). The Riverwalk Boardwalk guide covers the boardwalk that ends at the park.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, following a new read of the Rivergate park page, the Parks and Recreation FAQ, the 2025 master plan inventory and evaluations, Table 7-1, the River Nights parking list, the Special Events calendar and the FDEP North Fork preserve page.