Fort Lauderdale Parks Guide

The City of Fort Lauderdale runs beach parks, neighborhood parks, pools and preserves, and it is improving more than 90 parks with $200 million from the 2018 voter-approved general obligation bond (Parks Bond Program).

Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation lists its address as 1150 G. Harold Martin Drive, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304 (Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation), which is also the address the city gives for Holiday Park (Holiday Park project page). The department's Parks and Facilities Listing names Carter Park, Croissant Park, Esplanade Park, George English Park, Holiday Park, Mills Pond Park, Osswald Park, Riverland Park, Riverwalk Linear Park, Snyder Park and Warfield Park, along with the Jimmy Evert and George English tennis centers (Parks and Recreation). The Parks Bond list also carries neighborhood parks such as Colee Hammock Park, Sailboat Bend Preserve Park, Stranahan Park and Victoria Park (Parks Bond Program).

For swimming away from the ocean, the same menu lists community pools at Bass Park, Carter Park, Croissant Park, Lauderdale Manors Park and Riverland Park, the Osswald Park Splashpad, and the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center (Parks and Recreation). The Aquatic Center at 501 Seabreeze Boulevard charges a Fort Lauderdale resident $5 for an adult day pass and a non-resident $6, and Pay by Phone parking there costs $4 an hour for non-residents and $1.50 an hour for city residents (Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center). The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Aquatic Center guide covers lap swim hours and the construction there.

Fort Lauderdale Beach Park at 1100 Seabreeze Blvd is the city beach park with a playground, restrooms, grills and a non-motorized boat ramp, and Las Olas Oceanside Park adds a splash pad and restrooms (Beaches).

Las Olas Oceanside Park sits at 3000 E. Las Olas Blvd and also lists outdoor showers and a walking path (Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation).

Beach parks along North Atlantic Boulevard, such as Willingham Park at 2100 N. Atlantic Blvd and Vista Park at 2851 N. Atlantic Blvd, are listed with open areas, benches or picnic tables rather than restroom buildings (Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation). Canine Beach, at 1269 N. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd, is listed with a dog park as its amenity (Beaches). The Fort Lauderdale recreation guide carries the full beach list, dog beach hours and marina docking, so this hub does not repeat them.

Riverwalk Linear Park on New River Drive is the city's listed waterfront walkway park downtown, and Las Olas Tunnel Top Park is a new park and plaza that the city lists as complete (listing; project).

Riverwalk Linear Park, 5.59 acres at 20 N. New River Dr, lists a gazebo, park benches, picnic tables, restrooms and a waterfront walkway, and its listed hours read closed from 4 AM to 6 AM (Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation). The Tunnel Top project at 601 E Las Olas Blvd., valued at $10,326,000, is listed with a scope of new park and plaza space and a status of Complete (Las Olas Tunnel Top Park). The Fort Lauderdale Riverwalk guide covers the museums, water trolley stops, parking and events along the New River.

The Parks Bond is paying for community centers, pool renovations, playgrounds, pickleball courts and dog parks, with Lockhart Stadium Community Park, Holiday Park and Carter Park each valued above $20 million (Lockhart; Holiday; Carter).

Values, scopes and statuses in the table come from each park's Parks Bond page (Parks Bond Program; Bass Park; Synder Park; Mills Pond Park; George English Park; Riverland Park). Bass Park also lists a potential Florida Recreation Development Assistance (FRDAP) grant of $200,000 (Bass Park project page).

Holiday Park held the grand opening of its renovated tennis center in December, Carter Park received extra funding and is waiting to restart design, and Snyder Park is at the community input stage (Holiday; Carter; Snyder).

At Holiday Park the city replaced the athletic field lighting, and construction of JETC, the Phase 1 tennis center renovation, was to be completed in November 2025, with a grand opening and ribbon cutting held on December 8 (Holiday Park project page). The Phase 2 award, a playground and dog park, received City Commission approval on January 20, 2026, and notice to proceed for preconstruction is still listed as pending; the Phase 2 scope also lists baseball field shade structures and walking trail improvements, Phase 3 a splash pad and restroom building, and Phase 4 pickleball courts (City of Fort Lauderdale).

At Joseph C. Carter Park, lighting improvements were completed in 2023, the project was put on hold after the design development package, and supplemental funding was approved at the October 7, 2025 Commission meeting; revised and alternative design proposals are approved and design reinitiation is pending (Carter Park project page).

At Snyder Park, the scope covers two new restroom buildings, renovations to the Caldwell Pavilion, upgrades for up to 17 existing pavilions, a concept for a new Nature Center, a replacement boardwalk and a new pedestrian path from the Dog Beach to the Dog Park (Synder Park project page). Funding was approved at the October 7, 2025 Commission meeting, and a public meeting and online survey on December 10, 2025 gathered feedback to guide design pricing (City of Fort Lauderdale).

Not entirely: several Parks Bond pages fetched on October 18, 2026 still describe February 2026 or spring break 2026 as upcoming, so a park visitor should treat those dates as stale and call Parks and Recreation before planning around a new facility (Parks Bond Program).

The Bass Park page says construction is scheduled to start in February 2026, after the construction contract was executed and permitting completed (Bass Park project page). The Mills Pond Park page says construction on the restroom and concession building is expected to begin in February 2026 (Mills Pond Park project page). The Esterre Davis Wright Park page, a $665,000 playground and fitness equipment project at 1621 SW 24th St., says installation was being timed to finish before spring break 2026 (Esterre Davis Wright Park project page).

Lockhart Stadium Community Park is the clearest case of a plan without a date: the $25,000,000 project at 1350 NW 55th St. is listed On Hold, with construction pending project direction (Lockhart Stadium Community Park project page). The phone number on the Riverwalk and beach park listings is (954) 828-7275 (Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation), and city customer service answers at 954-828-8000 (City of Fort Lauderdale). Last verified: October 18, 2026, against the Parks Bond program page, ten park project pages and three Parks and Recreation listings.

No separate parks guides are published under the Fort Lauderdale parks section yet, so park questions that go deeper than this hub are answered by three related Digital Towns guides.

The Fort Lauderdale recreation guide covers the city beach parks one by one, Canine Beach hours, marinas and boat docking. The Fort Lauderdale Riverwalk on the New River guide covers Riverwalk Linear Park, the water trolley, museums and parking downtown. The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Aquatic Center guide covers pool hours, admission and the construction at 501 Seabreeze Boulevard. Questions about which park is getting a new playground, pool or community center are answered on this hub, in the Parks Bond table above.