Wickham Park in Melbourne, Florida

Wickham Park is a county park in Melbourne that Brevard County Parks and Recreation lists at 2500 Parkway Drive, Melbourne, FL 32935.

The county's Park Directory gives the park phone as (321) 255-4307 and tags Wickham Park in three categories: County Park, Dog Park and Campground. That makes it a Brevard County site even though its address is in the City of Melbourne, and the county's Campgrounds page lists the Wickham Park Campground beside the county's two other campgrounds.

The city has its own building that carries the park's name. The City of Melbourne runs the Wickham Park Community Center at 2815 Leisure Way, Melbourne, FL 32935, a gym and classroom building with its own phone, 321-608-7490, and its own hours. A trip to the Parkway Drive park and the Leisure Way gym can therefore involve two different governments in Melbourne on the same afternoon. The year the county park opened is not stated in the county or city sources reviewed for this page.

Brevard County lists Wickham Park as a county park, a dog park and a campground, and the state birding trail adds camping, horseback riding, restrooms and parking.

The county's Campgrounds page names three county campgrounds, and Wickham Park Campground in Melbourne is one of them. The page gives fuller descriptions for the other two, as the table shows, and directs campground questions to the Parks and Recreation Department, whose director is Ian Golden and whose main line is (321) 633-2046. The same page lists a South Area Operations line at (321) 255-4400.

The Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission program, lists the Wickham Park amenities as restrooms, parking, accessible parking, accessible amenities, camping and horseback riding, and notes that the restrooms are not listed as accessible. Its directions start at the office on the right just inside the Melbourne park, where visitors can pick up a map.

Wickham Park's scrubby flatwoods are home to resident Florida Scrub-Jays, Brown-headed Nuthatches and Northern Bobwhites, according to the state birding trail.

The birding trail listing for Wickham Park, filed under East Brevard, directs birders to pick up a map at the office, continue east and then north for 0.5 miles to a parking area by a large pond, and start from the multi-use trailhead there. Painted Buntings and Chuck-will's-widows add to the flatwoods list in spring and summer, and the listing names the Florida Scrub-Jay as the species highlight of the Melbourne site.

The habitat notes go beyond the scrub. Open playing fields attract Red-shouldered Hawks and Killdeer, and wooded trails through xeric hammock offer migrants such as American Redstart and White-eyed Vireo. The listing suggests camping overnight at Wickham Park to hear Eastern Screech-owls and Common Nighthawks, and says Whip-poor-wills are possible in early spring.

The trail system on the Melbourne property is large enough to be confusing. The birding trail says multi-use trails on the east and north sides of the park are extensive and branch continuously, that a GPS unit is especially helpful, and that trails in the southeast quadrant have the most shade. It lists the Wickham Park site as free to enter, with a size of 478 acres.

The Wickham Park Community Center is a City of Melbourne building of 18,000 square feet with a full-size gymnasium and three rooms for classes and rentals.

The City of Melbourne page describes a small room, a medium room and a large room beside the gym, and lists the building's hours as Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. The city's rental rates, which exclude tax, are below; a kitchen rents for $80 a day, staff charges apply outside operating hours, and contracts are due 14 days before a private event and 30 days before a public one.

The fall 2026 schedule posted by the City of Melbourne shows how the Melbourne gym is used. An adult basketball league plays Wednesday evenings, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., from August 19 to November 4, 2026, at $400 per team. Big City Basketball FUNdamentals sessions for ages 7 to 16 run Mondays from November 9 to December 14, 2026, at $150 per six-week session, and a homeschool session begins November 10, 2026, at $125 for five weeks. Open gym basketball costs $1 per visit for ages 17 and under and $2 for adults 18 and older.

The Wickham Park Community Center also hosts baton and dance classes, adult tap dance on Tuesdays, Zumba, homeschool art and physical education on Wednesday mornings at $4 a class, and dog obedience classes in which puppies work toward their AKC start and adult dogs toward the AKC Canine Good Citizen title; the first basic session runs October 13 to November 24, 2026. The city's pickleball page lists the Melbourne center as an indoor pickleball location, and open pickleball there costs $3 per visit, $78 for an annual pass or $108 for an annual Super Pass.

Weekly classes fill the rest of the Wickham Park Community Center calendar. The city lists a Toddler Open Gym on Fridays from 9 to 11 a.m., with slides, a bounce house and blocks, at $2 per visit or $12 for an eight-visit punch pass. Ueshiro Shorin Ryu Karate meets Wednesday evenings and Sundays at noon for ages 6 and older at $35 per individual or $40 per family. A Hatha style yoga class meets Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at $10 a class, Zumba meets Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings at $7 a class or $50 for a ten-class punch card, and adult tap dance meets Tuesdays from 5:15 to 6:15 p.m. at $7.50 a class or $30 a month. Basic dog obedience costs $120 for the fall session and $130 for the winter session that begins January 19, 2027.

Entry to Wickham Park itself is free, according to the birding trail, while classes, open gym and room rentals at the city community center carry the fees the City of Melbourne posts.

The birding trail lists Wickham Park hours as sunrise to sunset; the same listing's operational hours entry reads daily, 24 hours, which fits a park with an overnight campground, but the listing does not explain the two entries. Questions about the county park go to the park line at (321) 255-4307, the number both the county directory and the birding trail give for the Melbourne site.

At the community center, an annual pass for open gym basketball costs $23 for ages 17 and under and $42 for adults, and an annual Super Pass costs $42 and $72. The city states that the Super Pass grants access to the Eau Gallie Civic Center, the Joseph N. Davis Community Center and the Wickham Park Community Center, linking the Leisure Way gym to Melbourne's other recreation buildings.

Brevard County runs Wickham Park as a county park, and the City of Melbourne runs the Wickham Park Community Center.

The split shows in the contacts. The county directory gives (321) 255-4307 for the park on Parkway Drive and lists it among county parks, dog parks and campgrounds, while the city lists 321-608-7490 and [email protected] for the community center at 2815 Leisure Way. Campground reservations and park questions therefore go to Brevard County Parks and Recreation, and gym, class and room questions go to the City of Melbourne Parks, Recreation and Golf department.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, using the Brevard County Park Directory and Campgrounds pages, the birding trail listing for Wickham Park, and the City of Melbourne community center and pickleball pages; the county's own Wickham Park page returned a human check that day and was not used.