Woodland Trails Park and Dog Park

Woodland Trails Park and Dog Park, at 1485 SW Calmar Avenue in Port St. Lucie, has a dog park, sidewalk trails, a sensory playground, a pavilion, a fitness station and open fields, and it is open 8 a.m. to sunset.

The City of Port St. Lucie park page lists ADA restrooms, parking, BBQ grills, pet waste stations and picnic tables among the amenities, tags the park as autism friendly and gives 772-878-2277 as the contact number (City of Port St. Lucie, Woodland Trails Park and Dog Park). Its photo gallery shows the entrance with the walking trail and the dog park, and the playground serves ages 2 to 12 and includes sensory play components. The Census Bureau geocoder matches 1485 SW CALMAR AVE, PORT ST LUCIE, FL, 34953 to the incorporated place Port St. Lucie, so the park sits inside city limits (U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, Incorporated Places layer).

The acreage differs by source: the park page describes a 13.58-acre parcel, the Master Plan Update inventory lists 13.0 acres with a 2018 date (Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update, inventory row 63), and the Recreation and Open Space Element lists the site, spelled Woodlands Trails Park, at 13 acres on 1485 SW Calmar Ave (Recreation and Open Space Element, inventory).

The park opened with a grand opening ceremony on June 16, 2018, after residents chose the name Woodland Trails Park by majority vote in a community survey in November 2017.

According to the park page's history, the idea of a neighborhood park for the southwest area of the city began in 2002 as part of the city's Parks Project Improvement Program and Six-Year Development Plan (Woodland Trails Park page, History). The groundbreaking was held on December 2, 2017, on a 13.58-acre parcel between Edinburgh Drive and SW Calmar Avenue, and construction started in early December 2017.

The Port St. Lucie park history also states that the project budget was funded through the city's waste recycling program and that the park is now maintained by the Parks Roving Crew. The page credits two outside engineering and design firms with the design services.

Woodland Trails is one of the Port St. Lucie parks with a dog park and pet waste stations, but its city page does not post a separate set of dog park rules.

The Woodland Trails amenity list names the dog park and pet waste stations and sets park hours of 8 a.m. to sunset (Woodland Trails Park page, Facility Snapshot). For comparison, the city's page for the dog park at McChesney Park on SW Cashmere Blvd., which it calls the city's third dog park, requires current licenses and vaccinations for every dog, bars aggressive dogs and dogs in heat, and makes owners responsible for picking up after their pets (City of Port St. Lucie, McChesney Park and Dog Park). Those rules appear on the McChesney page.

In Port St. Lucie, the McChesney dog park is listed at 3/4 acre with separate fenced compounds for small, medium and large dogs and no lights for nighttime use (McChesney Park page, Dog Park). Woodland Trails, for its part, posts hours of 8 a.m. to sunset (Woodland Trails hours).

Besides Woodland Trails, city park pages describe dog parks at McChesney Park, Lyngate Park and Winterlakes Park, and those three pages spell out how their dog areas are divided by size.

Lyngate Park and Dog Park at 1301 S.E. Lyngate Drive, established in 1979, has separate fenced areas for large, medium and small dogs with a shade structure and water fountain, and its page repeats the license, vaccination and no aggressive dogs rules; it stays open until 10 p.m. with a 9:30 p.m. sports light curfew (City of Port St. Lucie, Lyngate Park and Dog Park). Winterlakes Park on N.W. Jannebo St. lists a dog park with separate fenced areas for large and small dogs, shade structures and water fountains (City of Port St. Lucie, Winterlakes Park).

Of the four, Woodland Trails is the Port St. Lucie dog park whose page lists only the dog park and pet waste stations, without describing separate size areas or posting rules (Woodland Trails Park page, amenities).

The 2025 Parks and Recreation Master Plan Update used Woodland Trails Neighborhood Park, Jessica Clinton Community Park and Pioneer Park as the measuring stick for evaluating the rest of the Port St. Lucie parks system.

The Port St. Lucie plan explains that parks were scored across 5 categories and 32 subcategories, using a three-point scale for site condition and a five-point scale for the other categories (Master Plan Update, park evaluation method). Woodland Trails is also named among the parks that provide an adequate mix of things to do for users of all ages and among the parks that show a high level of pride and ownership with limited to no signs of litter, vandalism or misuse.

Cell phone visit counts in the plan, supplied by Placer Labs, credit Woodland Trails Park with 104,961 visits, a total the plan groups in its moderate tier just behind Minsky Gym at 110,502 (Master Plan Update, Placer.ai Number of Visits). In the comprehensive plan's Recreation and Open Space Element the Calmar Avenue site carries the LNP code, short for large neighborhood park, a class meant for play fields, playgrounds, courts and picnic areas (Recreation and Open Space Element, park classes).

Yes: the Woodland Trails pavilion and field can be reserved through Port St. Lucie Parks and Recreation, and the city's attendance table caps group size there at 50.

On the unmanned facilities table of the city's Reservations and Rentals page, Woodland Trails Park carries a 50-person maximum, and the same table bars alcoholic beverages and petting zoos (City of Port St. Lucie, Reservations and Rentals). Neighborhood park reservations are accepted up to 180 days, or six months, ahead, and a Woodland Trails pavilion can be requested online or in person at the PSL Community Center, while fields are booked in person only.

Woodland Trails is on the City of Port St. Lucie list of parks where fields can be lined for soccer, football, rugby, lacrosse and similar sports, at $64.74 before tax, and the page notes that schools as defined in section 1003.01 of the Florida Statutes, including private, charter and home schools, receive free use of city sports fields (Reservations and Rentals, field lining and school fee waivers).

Last verified: October 22, 2026, after a same-day reading of the Woodland Trails park page, the McChesney, Lyngate and Winterlakes park pages, the Census geocoder result, the Reservations and Rentals tables, the Master Plan Update and the Recreation and Open Space Element.