Winterlakes Park

Winterlakes Park, at 5241 NW Jannebo St. in northern Port St. Lucie, has practice ball fields, a soccer area, lighted tennis and pickleball, a covered basketball court, a dog park, a lake with a fishing deck and gazebo, and a perimeter walking trail.

The city's park page describes Winterlakes as a 25.5-acre park and lists two practice baseball and softball fields, two soccer goals in one soccer field area, two ADA restrooms, a shaded playground for ages 2 to 12, two tennis courts and four pickleball courts with lighting, outdoor fitness stations along a sidewalk trail system, picnic facilities with a pavilion and sand volleyball courts (City of Port St. Lucie, Winterlakes Park). The walking trail around the perimeter is listed at 3,923 feet, or 0.74 miles. Winterlakes Park is open from 8 a.m. to sunset, with 772-878-2277 as its listed phone.

The Census Bureau geocoder matches 5241 NW JANNEBO ST, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34986 to the incorporated place Port St. Lucie city (U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Incorporated Places layer).

Not for now: the Winterlakes Park page says nighttime play on the covered basketball court is temporarily suspended and the courts close at dusk, even though the court has lighting.

The court has retractable goals and lighting, according to the amenity list, which carries the suspension notice in the same line (Winterlakes Park, Detailed Amenities). The Port St. Lucie Reservations and Rentals page puts the Winterlakes court on a shared row with the covered court at Charles E. Ray Park, reserved for basketball activities only, with a 150-person maximum (City of Port St. Lucie, Reservations and Rentals, Basketball Court Rentals).

On that row the 3-hour minimum is printed as $33.99 in the non-tax column and $33.37 in the column that includes tax, with $25.50 and $27.29 for non-profit and travel ball groups, and each added hour at $10.42 before tax. Those are the figures as posted on October 22, 2026. Court and field bookings are made in person at the PSL Community Center, and availability can be checked online first. A separate Digital Towns guide covers Charles E. Ray Park.

Elsewhere in Port St. Lucie, the Whispering Pines Park page says its Racquet and Paddle Center has 24 pickleball courts, all with shaded grandstands and lighting (City of Port St. Lucie, Whispering Pines Park and Racket and Paddle Center). For dog owners, the Winterlakes dog park splits large and small dogs, while McChesney Park's dog park on Cashmere Boulevard uses three compounds for small, medium and large dogs (City of Port St. Lucie, McChesney Park and Dog Park).

The current Winterlakes Park page says lights are available with a reservation on both the practice ball fields and the soccer area, while an earlier department information sheet said the first phase had no lighted amenities.

The undated Parks and Recreation information sheet on Winterlakes Neighborhood Park, written ahead of the first phase opening, listed Phase I amenities and stated in capital letters that there would be no lights on ballfields or within the park (City of Port St. Lucie, Winterlakes Neighborhood Park information sheet). The park page read on October 22, 2026 lists lights available with reservation for the fields and lighting on the tennis, pickleball and covered basketball courts.

Where field lights are reserved, the Port St. Lucie rate table bills them per field, per hour: $4.88 before tax for a baseball or softball field, and for a soccer, football or multipurpose field, $8.64 before tax (Reservations and Rentals, field lighting rates). The row for athletic fields without lights (practice and open space fields) reads $16.24 before tax.

According to the department's information sheet, the land served as a temporary school site leased to the St. Lucie School District from 2007 to 2012 before Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation took it over.

The sheet says the district cleared and graded the property, designed the stormwater system, built a wet retention pond, parking lots and sidewalks, brought in water, sewer and electric service, and built an open-sided airnasium and a playground (Winterlakes Neighborhood Park information sheet, General Information). When the district let the lease expire in 2012, the department assumed maintenance and promoted the site as a large day-use recreation area open 8 a.m. to sunset, seven days a week.

Port St. Lucie public meetings in July and August 2017 on the future of what the sheet calls the 28-acre parcel in the northern sector of the city produced a consensus to develop an unmanned neighborhood park. The sheet anticipated a Phase I soft opening on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 and a Grand Opening on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021, with Phase I covering the airnasium, restrooms, playground, dog park, picnic area and pavilion, open space practice fields, tennis and pickleball courts and a fitness station walking trail.

Port St. Lucie documents tie Winterlakes Phase II to volleyball courts, more pavilions, a gazebo, a fishing pier and more trail, with the information sheet citing $1.5 million in funding and the parks master plan reporting $1,542,369 in FY 2023 impact fee spending.

The information sheet says Phase II was funded at $1.3 million in the 305 Capital Improvement Plan Impact Fee Fund plus a $200,000 FRDAP grant, for a total of $1.5 million, and lists proposed volleyball courts, three additional family pavilions, additional trail, a fishing and RC pier, a gazebo, bike racks, a maintenance building, landscaping and irrigation and more benches (Winterlakes Neighborhood Park information sheet, Phase II).

The Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update reports that over FY 2023 the city spent $1,542,369 in impact fees on Winterlakes Neighborhood Park Phase II for buildout, including installation of a walking trail, volleyball courts, a pavilion, a gazebo and a fishing pier (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, impact fee spending). Today's park page lists sand volleyball courts, a gazebo overlooking the lake, a fishing pier and an observation and fishing deck, the features both documents named for Phase II.

The master plan and the comprehensive plan both list Winterlakes at 28 acres, while the park page says 25.5 acres, and the master plan counts 104,185 resident visits.

The Master Plan Update inventory lists Winterlakes Park at 28.0 acres, with a 2013 date, in the Neighborhood class; it places the park's 104,185 PSL resident visits in the moderate range and its visit frequency of 4.16 in the mid-range group, and notes high growth west of the Turnpike in communities such as Torino around Winterlakes Park (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, inventory, visitation and growth). The Recreation and Open Space Element lists Winterlakes Park at 28 acres, LNP-A, at 5241 NW Jannebo Street (Recreation and Open Space Element, park inventory). A separate Digital Towns guide covers Torino Regional Park.

Last verified: October 22, 2026, with the Winterlakes amenity list and court notice, the department's Winterlakes information sheet, the covered court and lighting rows of the rental table, the master plan's Phase II spending and inventory, the Jannebo Street element row and a Census geocoder match re-read.