Melbourne Recreation Guide

Most public recreation in Melbourne is run by the city's Parks, Recreation and Golf Department, with Brevard County's Wickham Park and Brevard Zoo filling in regional parkland and camps.

The department lists golf courses, athletic fields, playgrounds, outdoor basketball courts, pavilions, fishing piers, boat ramps, tennis and pickleball courts, swimming pools and seven community buildings among the facilities it manages (City of Melbourne Parks, Recreation and Golf). Its online parks directory returns 42 parks, from small neighborhood lots with a playground to Ballard Park, which sits on the Eau Gallie River with boat ramps, tennis and basketball courts (City of Melbourne parks directory).

The Melbourne recreation section breaks this into five guides. The table pairs the common questions with the short fact and the guide that goes deeper.

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the City of Melbourne Parks, Recreation and Golf fee pages for pools, courts and golf.

Melbourne swimmers use three city pools, Sherwood, Fee and Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr., and a visit costs $2 to $3.50 in cash depending on age and residency.

The city lists Sherwood Pool at 2479 Post Road (321-608-7479), Fee Pool at 114 E. Fee Avenue (321-608-7444) and the Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr. Pool at 3400 Monroe Street (321-608-7459) (City of Melbourne pools page). Open swim and lap swim cost $2 for residents and $2.50 for non-residents aged 17 and under, and $3 or $3.50 for swimmers 18 and older. Children under 12 must be with an adult.

Fall is the thin season at the Melbourne pools. On October 14, 2026 the pools page showed Fee Pool and the Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr. Pool closed for the season, leaving Sherwood Pool open for public swim on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m., with adult lap swim on Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon. Swim lessons cost $50 per session for residents and $60 for non-residents; registration opened 9/18/2026 for Saturday classes at Sherwood running from 10/24/2026 to 12/19/2026, with no class on November 28. A financial assistance form takes $40 off each participant per session.

Groups can book Sherwood Pool for a party at $115 an hour for residents or $138 for non-residents, for up to 50 people, with a two-hour minimum and certified lifeguards provided. The Melbourne public swimming pools guide covers lap lanes, lesson levels and the Mako Sharks team.

Melbourne's outdoor pickleball hub is the Jimmy Moore Pickleball Complex on Sarno Road, and its main tennis site is the 15-court Fee Avenue Tennis Complex, with free tennis at Ballard Park.

The Jimmy Moore Pickleball Complex has twenty-four dedicated courts at 2810 Sarno Road (321-608-7445). Indoor play runs on posted open gym calendars at Wickham Park Community Center on Leisure Way, the Eau Gallie Civic Center on Highland Avenue and the Joseph N. Davis Community Center on Bruce D. Buggs Street (City of Melbourne pickleball page). Daily play costs $3 indoors, $3 outdoors before 4 p.m. and $4 outdoors from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. Annual passes start at $65 for residents for indoor play and $90 for outdoor play.

Fee Avenue has 11 hard courts and four clay courts at 114 Fee Avenue, open weekdays from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and weekend mornings from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. A two-hour morning block costs $4 for residents, an evening block $5, and a single annual pass $145 (City of Melbourne tennis page). Members may book courts up to three days ahead by calling 321-608-7440; nonmembers book the day before. The Ballard Park courts on the Eau Gallie River need no reservation and charge nothing.

The Melbourne pickleball and tennis guide compares the passes and lists the classes and leagues that use these courts.

An 18-hole round with a cart costs $42 at Melbourne's city golf courses in October 2026, with walking rounds from $20 for nine holes.

The city runs two courses: Crane Creek Reserve Golf Course at 475 West New Haven Avenue (pro shop 321-608-7430) and Harbor City Golf Course at 2750 Lake Washington Road (pro shop 321-608-7480) (City of Melbourne golf page). Current rates are $42 for 18 holes with a cart, $26 for nine holes with a cart, $27 for 18 holes walking and $20 for nine holes walking, with daily fees including tax. Harbor City also offers foot golf after 2 p.m. at $15 per player.

Seasonal timing matters on the Melbourne courses. Both are open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. through October 31, then close at 5 p.m. from November 1 to March 7. The same date moves the reduced afternoon rate: 18 holes with a cart drops to $35 after 2 p.m. now and after 1 p.m. from November 1, and the $18 unlimited walking special moves from 4 p.m. to 3 p.m. Regular players can buy a $1,000 Single Pass covering green fees or a $3,900 Premier Pass that adds carts and range balls.

The Crane Creek Reserve Golf Course guide covers the course's 1920s Donald Ross origins and its state historic golf trail listing.

The City of Melbourne runs seven community centers and rental halls, from the Crane Community Center on Mosswood Drive to the Melbourne Auditorium on East Hibiscus Boulevard.

The city venue list gives these addresses: Crane Community Center, 1440 Mosswood Drive; Eau Gallie Civic Center, 1551 Highland Avenue; Eddie Lee Taylor, Sr. Community Center, 3316 Monroe Street; Front Street Civic Center, 2205 Front Street; Joseph N. Davis Community Center, 2547 Bruce D. Buggs Street; Melbourne Auditorium, 625 E. Hibiscus Blvd.; and Wickham Park Community Center, 2815 Leisure Way (City of Melbourne community centers page). The Wickham Park building has a full-size gymnasium plus small, medium and large rooms, while the Front Street Civic Center beside Claude Edge Front Street Park on the Indian River is listed for weddings and business luncheons (Melbourne parks directory).

Refund rules apply across Melbourne recreation programs. A refund request for a class, athletic fee, summer camp or swim lesson must reach the recreation office at least seven days before the start date, and memberships, passes and daily fees are not refunded (Parks, Recreation and Golf refund policy). The Melbourne community centers guide covers each building's rooms, gyms and booking rules.

Brevard Zoo on North Wickham Road has posted its camp prices and dates, while the city had not posted its next summer camp details as of October 14, 2026.

Brevard Zoo, at 8225 North Wickham Road, runs summer camps from June to August: half days for campers entering kindergarten, full days for those entering 1st to 9th grade and overnights for 10th to 12th graders (Brevard Zoo camps page). A full-day five-day week costs $330 for Zoo members and $350 for non-members. From October to April the zoo also runs one-day Mini Camps for grades 1 to 5 on school holidays and teacher workdays at $60 for members and $65 for non-members, which is the option that applies this fall.

The city's Summer Camp page carried a single line on October 14, 2026: information on summer camp will be available in the coming months (City of Melbourne summer camp page). The zoo notes that a summer week missing from its calendar is already sold out, with a waitlist through [email protected]. The Melbourne summer camps guide compares the zoo, city and Florida Tech programs.

Wickham Park is Brevard County's 391-acre park at 2500 Parkway Drive in Melbourne, with camping, fishing lakes, an archery range, disc golf and a divided dog park.

Brevard County lists 10 rentable pavilions, fishing lakes, an archery range, a disc golf course, a dog park split into sections for small and large dogs, equestrian trails, two lighted multi-use fields, two sand volleyball courts and RV and tent campsites, all with free parking (Brevard County Wickham Park page). The Ranger Station just inside the Parkway Drive entrance handles questions, rentals and campground check-in; the park line is 321-255-4307.

Campers should plan around work in the A loop. The county reports that construction has begun on a new restroom, shower and laundry building there, expected to last until May 2027, with the nearest facilities in the B loop meanwhile. The city-run Wickham Park Community Center on Leisure Way sits on the same county property.