Dale Wimbrow Park on the St. Sebastian River

Dale Wimbrow Park is an Indian River County park at 11805 Roseland Road, Sebastian, FL 32958, on the Saint Sebastian River, open daily from 7:30 a.m. to sunset.

The park lies along the Saint Sebastian River near Sebastian and Roseland, and the county gives a park size of 37.19 acres (Indian River County Parks, Recreation and Conservation). It is a county park, not a City of Sebastian park, so rentals and questions go to county numbers rather than to City Hall: Donald MacDonald Park at 772-589-0087 or the Parks Division at 772-226-1875 (Indian River County).

Four county parks give access to the St. Sebastian River near Sebastian and Roseland, and each does a different job. The table compares what the county lists for each one as of October 14, 2026.

Sources for the rows: Dale Wimbrow Park, Donald MacDonald Park and Campground, Sebastian Canoe Launch and Roseland Community Park county pages.

One figure in the county listings does not add up. Dale Wimbrow Park and Donald MacDonald Park and Campground both show exactly 37.19 acres, although they are separate sites on Roseland Road, so the shared number looks like a copied entry. Anyone who needs the true acreage of the Dale Wimbrow parcel should ask the Parks Division at 772-226-1875 rather than rely on the web listing.

Yes, Dale Wimbrow Park has a boat launch on the Saint Sebastian River that the county lists as 7 feet deep at the end of the ramp, with 8 boat trailer parking spaces.

The county describes the park as a great location to launch a kayak, and its feature list includes the boat launch, a fitness trail, paved parking and fishing access (Indian River County).

Boaters leaving the Dale Wimbrow ramp are on a manatee protection river. Florida rule 68C-22.007 makes all navigable waters of the St. Sebastian River within Indian River County, including the South Fork, west and southwest of the US 1 Bridge and north of the S.R. 512 Bridge a year-round Slow Speed Zone (Fla. Admin. Code R. 68C-22.007).

What is changing: in a release dated February 4, 2026, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported that its Commissioners voted to approve proposed amendments to Indian River County manatee zones for advertising, covering the Sebastian Inlet Idle Speed Zone, the Vero Beach Power Plant No Entry Zone and the Prang Creek Unregulated Area (FWC). The St. Sebastian River zone was not one of the three, so the slow speed rule on the river near Dale Wimbrow Park is not part of that review.

The Dale Wimbrow Park event pavilion rents for $65 a day by reservation through Indian River County, and county ordinance bans pets, alcohol, camping and fireworks in the park.

Pavilion Rental: $65 daily rental, and the event pavilion requires a reservation; the county asks people to call Donald MacDonald Park at 772-589-0087 or the Parks Division at 772-226-1875 to rent it (Indian River County). That routing makes the campground office at Donald MacDonald Park, 12315 Roseland Road, the first call for a Dale Wimbrow booking (Indian River County).

The county lists these Dale Wimbrow Park rules, each tied to the county code (Indian River County): no pets (County Ordinance 205.03.22), no alcohol (205.03.26), no open fires (205.03.04), no camping (205.03.16), no overnight parking and no trespassing when the park is closed (205.03.19), no equestrian activities (205.03.3) and no fireworks (205.03.5).

A practical tip for dog owners on Roseland Road: the pet ban at Dale Wimbrow Park does not apply at Donald MacDonald Park and Campground, where the county allows pets on a 6 foot leash at all times (Indian River County). The campground is also where overnight stays belong, since camping is banned at Dale Wimbrow. Its boat ramp is closed at sunset, the same closing time that applies to Dale Wimbrow Park (Donald MacDonald Park and Campground).

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the Indian River County website.

Dale Wimbrow Park is one of the endpoints Indian River County names for a three to four hour paddle north from the Sebastian Canoe Launch on the South Prong of the Saint Sebastian River.

The Sebastian Canoe Launch is a 1.03 acre county site at 9800 Canoe Launch Cove, open daily 7 a.m. to sunset, with a kayak launch, a canoe launch, a dock and 8 parking spaces (Indian River County). The county says paddlers can head north toward Donald MacDonald Park, Dale Wimbrow Park or the Indian River Lagoon, and tells them to allow three to four hours and arrange for drop off and pick up (Indian River County). The river is largely protected, the county adds, with chances to see alligators, manatees, native birds and fish.

Cypress Bend Community Preserve, a county preserve under habitat restoration, lies about 1.5 miles south of Dale Wimbrow Park on the west side of Roseland Road.

The county acquired the 59 acre Cypress Bend property in 2006 and has been restoring it since; because of invasive species and its prior use as a citrus grove, the site needs substantial work to bring back native scrub, including removal of invasive plants and remnant farming equipment and a planned prescribed burn (Indian River County).

Roseland Community Park at 12925 83rd Avenue in Roseland has a community building, a boardwalk to the Sebastian River, a covered pavilion and a grill; the Roseland Women's Club handles rentals of the building (Indian River County).

The river at Dale Wimbrow Park has a long recorded past. The Florida Division of Historical Resources Roseland marker (2014) states that the Ays lived along the confluence of the St. Sebastian and the Indian River when the Spanish arrived in the 1500s, and that in 1816 George Fleming received a large land grant on both sides of the St. Sebastian River (Florida Division of Historical Resources). The same marker says the 1926 Roseland Community Center was built of lumber salvaged from the first bridge to cross the St. Sebastian River. No county or state source located for this page explains who Dale Wimbrow was, so the name's origin is left open here.