This is a very nice neighborhood park in the 1.546 single family home neighborhood of LaMancha in…read moreRoyal Palm Beach. LaMancha was built in 1978 and expanded upon through the years. This park was named in honor of former Royal Palm Beach resident, Todd Andrew Robiner who was a football player for Palm Beach Lakes High School, a basketball star, and a championship wrestler. While attending Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois on a full scholarship it was discovered during a routine physical exam that something was wrong. It was later diagnosed as cancer and Todd passed away from the disease at the age of 21 on August 20. 1994. There is a plaque with his name at the entrance to the park. Situated on a canal, this lovely 5 acre park has a lot of amenities. These include a restroom, large playground, basketball court, sand volleyball court, boat launch, and fishing dock. In August of this year the park was renovated to include two new dog parks, one for small dogs and one for large. Dog fountains, benches, and new fencing were added to the area. A new kayak launch, expanded sidewalks and a new parking lot were also added to the park. It is very nice to sit on one of the swing benches and watch the ducks and boats sail by.

Another beautiful local park with a water view. Very clean &…read morea nice layout. They have some tables,basketball ball courts, walking path, several benches to relax & watch the ducks. Children's park & Bathroom also available.

Palm Beach Post Park also known as Post Park or The Palm Beach Post Centennial Park is a passive…read moregreen space in downtown West Palm Beach. You can find it on the south side of Evernia Street west of Flagler Drive next to the Meyer Amphitheater. If you ever need parking for that venue you might try this park which has its own metered spaces. This park was named after the Palm Beach Post, a historically significant for the newspaper for the city. In 1910 the paper started weekly before evolving into a daily paper in 1916. The Palm Beach Post is deeply tied to the city's growth on Clematis Street which is the city's historic hub. This green space is mainly used by people to walk their dogs. There is enough room to fly a kite or have a game of soccer. The city also stages events here. The next one is a New Moon Experience on January 18th from 4:30 pm - 8:00 pm. There will be yoga, sound healing, breathwork, and silent disco as the sunset over the waterfront. I think the view of the boats on the Lake Worth Lagoon is the nicest feature of this park.

Currie Park is named in honor of George Graham Currie a Palm Beach Renaissance man. Mr. Currie was…read moreborn near Montreal in 1867. In 1895 he was in New York and wanted to get to Cuba to report on an insurgence. On the way he ended up broke and stranded in West Palm Beach. He started out working as a typist and living in a rooming house. From there he earned a law degree and made a fortune developing real estate. He served s mayor from 1901 to 1904. He went on to write 18 books of poetry, music lyrics, and essays and had a regular column in the Palm Beach Post. At the age of 59 he died of a heart attack on September5, 1926. Currie Park was dedicated in 1949. Currie Park is 13 and a half acres along the Intracoastal near the Northwood neighborhood. The park has tennis courts, fishing piers, a playground, a boat ramp. A maritime museum, and a memorial to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. The park also has a large green space where the city holds free concerts during the winter months of the third Sunday of the month from 4 to 7 PM. I got to enjoy the concert they had this past Sunday, the R&B Derek Mack Band. Although this park has a lot of great amenities the best one has to be the view. This linear park offers a stunning view of the water and it is the perfect place to lay back and watch the boats sail by. Currently there are plans to build a tower next to the park and the developer has plans to make improvements to the park. Only time will tell what the future of Currie Park will be but it is just about perfect the way it is.

Beautiful scenery of the ocean. Park is small for kids but good enough. They have a soccer field,…read moreand dock. Only thing bad about it is the trash around the docks and area.

Flamingo Park is a 2 acre open green space in the Flamingo Park neighborhood of Palm Beach. The…read morepark has a small swing sweet, benches, and majestic banyan trees. What most people don't know about the park is that it is also a cemetery. Approximately 100 bodies lie beneath the grass. No one knows how many exactly because people who could not afford a formal burial would come here in the middle of the night to bury their dead. The land the park sits on was once owned by the Lakeside Cemetery Association who purchased the property from the city in 1902. They then used it as an African-American cemetery while white people were buried in Pioneer Memorial Park on land where the Norton Museum of Art now resides. In 1913 the city wanted the land back so they could sell it for development but they were blocked by the Supreme Court. Burials were stopped and five years later the land was donated to the city who turned it into a park named Dixie Playground and later the name changed to Flamingo Park, the same as the historic neighborhood that surrounds it. The city didn't give up on selling the land first in 1966 for houses and in 1991 as an exotic car shoot room. Neighborhood protest blocked both projects. The city seems to be resigned to having a park here now and they have made improvements including a walkway and benches. A statue called Girl With a Shawl was added to act as a memorial to the people who are buried here but whose names have been lost to time. You can read about the history of the park on a historical marker that has been placed in the park. The park is now mainly used by homeless people but the centuries old banyan trees will sometimes attract people posing for a picture. This park is a piece of the history of Palm Beach. Thanks to community activists we still have it to enjoy today.

Small little park with a lot of history. This park use to be an African American cemetery back in…read more1902. Its located in down town West Palm beach not far from City Place and Clematis Street. Flamingo park has a monument of a girl and around the girl are some benches. I am told by a friend that knows the area that there are a lot of vagrant people in this area . So we stayed for a short time. We could see that there were a lot of beers cans laying around .What a shame to trash a park that should be respected because of its history. The park has beautiful large trees and even a small playground. Come check out this neighborhood park. Parking is not good.

This 7 acre park was getting some good use when I stopped by as a couple of different birthday…read moreparties were underway with lots of kids running and playing. The park features basketball courts, a fitness trail, racquetball courts, restrooms, playgrounds and a solid perimeter fence. There is even a free wifi here though I wasn't able to get it to work. They have more than sufficient free parking though I would imagine that it gets tight if lots of people are here for the amphitheater. Check out the huge mural. This is a lovely park and a tremendous addition to the neighborhood. [Review 14793 overall, 295 of 2021, number 1286 in Florida.]

Sara Sims Park is the story of when a city cares and does something right. For years this 12 acre…read moresite and the adjoining cemetery were dilapidated and attracted crime. In 2010 the Community Redevelopment Agency hired REG architects to create a park. The city got input from the community about what they wanted the area to be. The park is named in honor of Sara Sims, a community activist who helped found the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in 1908. She is buried in the historic cemetery adjacent to the park. The city broke ground in October 2018. In November of 2019 a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the 1.3 million dollar renovation. The park has a steel amphitheater, new parking, restrooms, open lawn, exercise path with mile markers, four new pavilions with their own picnic tables and grills, upgraded racquetball and basketball courts, bicycle racks, and a playground. Security features were added to the park that included emergency call boxes, 5 cameras that allow officers to view the park at all times, and better lights for safety at night. As I was visiting a police car pulled up to keep an eye on the park. Only time will tell if the community embraces this park but the money Boynton Beach invested looks well spent.

One of the last projects of Addison Mizner's storied architectural career resides in the center of…read morethe town of Palm Beach. Mizner moved to the area in 1918 and that same year he completed his first project, The Everglades Club. He was well known for his use of the Mediterranean style in his buildings which proliferated all over Palm Beach and Boca over the next decade. During the Great Depression the Memorial Fountain Commission chaired by Harold S. Vanderbilt, commissioned a fountain from Addison Mizner. It was presented in 1929 to the Town of Palm Beach as a "gift for its residents." Mizner based his design of the Fountain of the Sea Horses, an 18th century art piece created by Christopher Unterberget at the Villa Borghese in Rome Italy. The double bowl cast stone fountain features four mythical seahorses also called hippocamps from Greek and Roman mythology. The fountain is located at the end of linear plaza passive park which also contains reflecting pools, walkways, and palm trees. The park was dedicated in 1925 to the memory of Henry M. Flagler who brought the railroad and development to Florida and Elisha N. Dimick who opened the first hotel in Palm Beach, the Cocoanut Grove House in 1880. A World War II memorial plaque was added in 1985. In 2017 the fountain was restored for 1.5 million dollars and it won a national public works award. Experts were brought in from all over North America and the fountain was taken apart in pieces and the hippocamps were trucked to Ontario, Canada while other parts of the fountain were repaired in Delray Beach, and the base was fixed onsite. Once finished, the fountain won the top prize on the category of historical restoration projects that cost less than 5 million. The fountain was the start of the 7.9 million dollar Town Square restoration project that began in February of 2015 and was completed in December of that year. Today the fountain is a well known Palm Beach landmark and it is a popular photography spot. In fact on the day I visited it was being used by a wedding party. If you can't get to Italy you can at least experience a little bit of European design in Palm Beach, thanks to the talented Addison Mizner.

This is a beautiful fountain park only wish I could have sat at this park but with the corona virus…read more,it best to just view it quickly. If you can come and see it one day . Dedicated by the Memorial Fountain Commission in 1929 and located in the commercial heart of the Town of Palm Beach, the plaza was presented to the town by Harold S. Vanderbilt, its chairman, "as a gift from its residents." The design was by local architect Addison Mizner. Mizner moved to Palm Beach in 1918 and later that year completed his first commission, the Everglades Club. For the next decade, his celebrated Mediterranean Revival style would proliferate in Palm Beach and Boca Raton with commissions also in Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut. Memorial Fountain Park, realized during the Great Depression, was one of his last commissions. The design is a simple linear plaza with a central reflecting pool lined by walks, tightly clipped hedges and evenly spaced palms. On the upper terrace is a central fountain, inspired by the Fountain of the Sea Horses, an 18th century work by Christopher Unterberger at the Villa Borghese in Rome, Italy. Twin sets of staircases running the entire width of the plaza provide access to the upper terrace. The lower staircase on axis with the fountain has a central rill spilling into the pool. The plaza is punctuated by alcoves and walls for seating, and entrance piers with urns marking the arrival to the upper terrace and lower plaza. A World War II memorial plaque was added in 1985.

Heading to lunch and our trip brought us past this park that we had to check out…read more A nice park that is very well maintained and enjoyed by families. We saw a couple of families enjoying the water works set up in one part where the children were enjoying the water and parents watching comfortably from their benches. Restroom facilities are available as well as other playground equipment on the other side of the facilities. Lots of parking available and a large field for other activities.

This park is located on the corner of Parker Avenue and Hampton Road. We took Parker Avenue to our…read morelunch restaurant. One of my husband's grandsons is named Parker so we were curious and took the road north instead of heading to US1. The park is right north/next to the Riker Athletic Campus -- part of the Palm Beach Atlantic College (not FAU). And I don't think most of the families using this park even question how it was named or care. You can google or go to Wikipedia for this information. When we stopped by everything was so vibrantly green -- including a large grassy "sports" area where two guys were practicing their soccer kicks. The park has many amenities -- both a bike and walking path (paved), a children's playground, toilet facilities and a water fountain. The most appealing area to me was the splash pad. There were some interesting trees with a bit of shade. I especially liked that there were picnic tables and benches throughout so parents could watch their kids. The park is open sunrise to sunset. Glad we stopped to check it out.

Lakewood Gardens started as a census designated community in Palm Beach County. In 2011 it was…read moreannexed by Palm Springs making it an official part of that city. Today Lakewood Gardens is known as a modest, residential. family friendly neighborhood. While in the area I popped into this park to get a few steps in. I was impressed that the entire park is fenced in which I am sure is a relief for parents with young children. There are quite a few amenities in this welcoming neighborhood park. These include a shade covered, ADA accessible playground, barbecue grills, basketball court, benches, pavilions, picnic tables, a sand volleyball court, and paved walkways. Overall Lakewood Gardens Park is a pleasant and accessible neighborhood park that offers locals a place for casual outings, picnics, active play, and relaxed afternoons. This open park feels clean and safe.