West Melbourne Parks and Recreation

The West Melbourne advisory board page lists seven city parks, from Bryant Adams Park beside the Veterans Memorial Complex to West Melbourne Community Park on Minton Road, and the complex itself rents indoor space.

This section of Digital Towns covers West Melbourne's public parks: where each one is, what it has, how to rent a pavilion or hall, and how the parks are run. The most complete official list sits on the advisory board page, which names each park with a plain-language location (West Melbourne Parks & Recreation Advisory Board page). The table repeats those locations next to the features the city's facility and rental pages give.

Sources for the table: the advisory board page and the facility pages for locations, and the Community Park, Field of Dreams, Hammock Lake Park and Jan Lieson Crossroads Park facility pages and the West Melbourne Rental Facilities page for features. The board page spells the Eber Road park as Hammock Lakes Park while its facility page uses Hammock Lake Park. Last verified: October 21, 2026, against fresh reads of the West Melbourne park facility pages, the rental rules, the advisory board roster page, the department page and the city contact directory.

The city facility page puts the West Melbourne splash pad and skate park at West Melbourne Community Park, 3000 Minton Road, and the city rental page lists a splash pad and skate park under the name Sandhill Crane Park South.

The facility page describes West Melbourne Community Park as the city's newest park, across from the West Melbourne Public Library, and gives hours of 10am to 6pm every day for the splash pad and 8:30am to 9:00pm, Monday to Sunday, for the skate park (West Melbourne Community Park facility page). Other listed features are a giant chess board, an amphitheater, pavilions, restrooms and free public Wi-Fi, and it shows Field of Dreams at 3053 Fell Road as a subfacility of the same park (Field of Dreams facility page).

The rental page splits a park called Sandhill Crane Park into two halves: the North half has a playground the page labels Special Population, mini golf, pavilions and fields for softball, basketball and soccer, and Sandhill Crane Park South with the splash pad, skate park, amphitheater and performance lawn and 5 pavilions (West Melbourne Rental Facilities page). Neither page explains the two names, so both are given here; both facility listings give the Recreation Department number, 321-837-7779 (Community Park facility page).

A second West Melbourne naming question involves Max K. Rodes Park. The Community Park page says the park was formerly known as Max K. Rodes Park (Community Park page). The city facility directory still carries a separate Max K. Rodes Park entry, says that park is operated by Brevard County Parks and Recreation (District III), gives the phone 321-952-4650, and lists a swimming lake, shuffleboard, a baseball and softball field, a playground and restrooms (Max K. Rodes Park facility page). Both statements are on city pages today.

For a walk among trees and native plants in West Melbourne, the two city parks to know are Hammock Lake Park off Eber Road and Jan Lieson Crossroads Park on Meadowlane Avenue.

Hammock Lake Park sits on Sedgewood Drive, 200 feet off Eber Road; the city lists free admission and a nature preserve with paved and mulched trails, along with a basketball court, a volleyball court, a multi-purpose area, a playground and pavilions (Hammock Lake Park facility page). The advisory board page places it north of the intersection of Eber Boulevard and Brunswick Way, between the Stratford Pointe and Hammock Lakes subdivisions (advisory board page).

Jan Lieson Crossroads Park lies south of Helen Street, east of Minton Road and west of Meadowlane Avenue, with native plants, a nature trail, a pedway, a pavilion and a picnic area. The facility page says the park was created with funds from a Brevard County referendum, and that the West Melbourne City Council renamed the former Crossroads Park on November 20, 2007 (Jan Lieson Crossroads Park facility page). The advisory board page places it on Meadowlane Avenue across the road from West Melbourne Elementary School for Science (advisory board page).

West Melbourne's fields are at Sandhill Crane Park North, the Field of Dreams on Fell Road and Clements Wood Park, and the lighted tennis and racquetball courts are at the Veterans Memorial Complex.

The rental page lists softball, basketball and soccer fields and mini golf at Sandhill Crane Park North, a softball field and soccer at Clements Wood Park, and lighted tennis and racquetball courts on the grounds of the Veterans Memorial Complex (West Melbourne Rental Facilities page). Field of Dreams at 3053 Fell Road is tagged in the city directory as an all-accessible sports complex with pavilions, reached through the West Melbourne Recreation Department at 321-837-7779 (West Melbourne facilities directory).

Smaller courts are spread around. Hammock Lake Park has a basketball court and a volleyball court (Hammock Lake Park page), and the county-operated Max K. Rodes Park listing adds a volleyball court and shuffleboard (Max K. Rodes Park page). The rental page describes the playground at Sandhill Crane Park North as a Special Population playground (rental page).

West Melbourne park pavilions rent for $45 to $150 per day depending on location, and the full Veterans Memorial Complex package is $375 for a Saturday or Sunday.

The Rental Facilities page sets the rates and rules shown below (West Melbourne Rental Facilities page).

The Veterans Memorial Complex has a 200-capacity meeting and party space, a 30-capacity conference room and a professional kitchen with a double oven stove, ice machine and commercial refrigerator and freezer. Dates can be reserved up to one year ahead, half the rental rate secures a facility package, and any change costs $10. Refund requests made in writing at least four weeks ahead are considered for a full refund less a $10 cancellation fee, later requests for 50% or 25% (West Melbourne rental rules). Full park rentals are available with Special Event Application approval and required insurance (rental page).

The West Melbourne Parks & Recreation Department runs programs from 2285 Minton Road, and a seven-member resident advisory board reviews park plans in public meetings.

The department page lists programs for children, youth and adults covering exercise, art, music, dance and education, and says registration for classes, activities and rentals now runs through new recreation software that requires an account before signing up (West Melbourne Parks & Recreation page). The department's address in the city directory is 2285 Minton Road, West Melbourne, FL 32904-4916, phone 321-837-7779 and fax 321-768-2390 (City of West Melbourne Contact Us page).

The Parks and Recreational Advisory Board meets at 6:00 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every odd month in the council chambers at the Veterans Memorial Complex, and the meetings are open to the public (department page). The board page says it has seven registered electors and residents of the City of West Melbourne, appointed by the City Council for two-year terms that expire in odd-numbered years, and that it reviews proposed park acquisitions and improvements and current programs and facilities, gathers public input on long-range plans and makes recommendations on grant program applications (advisory board page). The department page adds that citizens are encouraged to share their ideas at those meetings (West Melbourne Parks & Recreation page).