Palmetto Leaves Regional Park

Palmetto Leaves Regional Park is a nice place to launch a kayak. It has a small parking area and a nice walkway to the kayak launch.I enjoyed my time at this part of the park. The kayak launch was isolated enough that it was easy to.forget that you were in a major U.S. city.

Palmetto Leaves Regional Park is one of those neighborhood parks I like to frequent when I am out urban riding. It's pretty much my pitstop or halfway point of my ride. No frills type of park. It has 2 baseball fields, a small walking trail, a playground with a couple of pavilions. There is even a zipline, for kids that is. It even has a "catch and release" pond.For the most part, as much as I have been here, it has been well kept in to when the City decided to halt their recycling efforts and turned this park into a recycling hub or drop off, which turned it into a hot garbage (no pun intended). The recycling containers at times were overfilled. Fast forward to now, it seems like things are back to normal for this park.

Only 1 or 2 spots that would hold a trailer. The distance from the parking lot to the launch, where you need to transport the kayak off your vehicle, was about 3 mins (without a kayak) that was too much for us in the July heat so didn't get to actually launch.

I usually visit Palmetto Leaves Regional Park every other week or so to drop off my recycling since Jacksonville stopped picking up recyclables. A lot of times there are boxes and other recyclables overflowing from the containers and trash on the ground that gets blown around the park by the wind. The city could do so much better! This could be a really nice park if it were maintained better. They have a few trails to walk on and a playground for the kiddos. There is also a big green space that can be used for a picnic, sunning, playing sports, etc. If only the city of Jacksonville cared about keeping it clean and maintained as much as they do spending tax money on the Jaguars.

We visited this park a few months ago without two year old son while things were still in the middle of COVID. We mostly were at the playground area so I can't speak much into the rest of the park. Thought it was a fairly nice playground and our son loved the zip line!However, we went there today, and it was like a totally different park! It has not been well kept and maintained. The playground needs some repairing and had water/flooding issues. There was one slide with a large crack in it that someone had boarded up so kids could not go down. The zip line, which our son was most interested in, was also out of commission and looked unsafe, but no signage about it. Overall, this playground is needing some extra love and care, and we were quite disappointed when we left.

This well kept park in Mandarin on Greenland Road has a little something for everyone-- except bathrooms! -1 Star for that. (There was a porta potty for awhile down at the end of the parking lot near the softball complex but it hasn't been there the last few visits.)There's a playground, shade structure, 3 or 4 ponds I've seen people fishing in, large grassy areas for frisbee, kite flying etc, nice 1/2 mile paved trail through the woods and long walking trail along the driveway. There's also a large softball complex at the back. It's a big park-There's another entrance off Old St Augustine I haven't been to. I'm not sure if there's a nature trail that connects the two ends. The other -1 Star comes from the high number of feral cats (I've counted up to 12 at a time and there are probably more hiding) that live along the end of the walking trail by the parking lot, and for the people who think it's cool to feed them and put Tupperware, cat beds, etc throughout the woods for them.

This is a nice neighborhood park. It's about a 1 mile bike ride away for us, which is a bonus. The zip line entertains my 4th grader and her friends every time we go here. Thankfully it was fixed after a few months of being broken. The shade is missing over the swing, which is unfortunate. However, it's clean and does offer baseball fields further into the park. There are several picnic tables and grills under a covered area. The playground equipmemt istelf is clean and good for younger kids. There is a walking/biking path that goes around a pond which adds to its appeal. Overall, it's a good park.

This park has seen better days. The zip line swing is fixed after months of being out of commission but now there's some other broken equipment in the playground and the shaded canopy over the swing-set has disappeared. Hopefully the City of Jax will be replacing the mulch soon because the playground looks depressing now.

This park is ok. The park is clean, but there really isn't a lot there but a couple of picnic tables (covered), a very small parking lot, some baseball fields, and a very, very small potty. This area is heavily wooded along the South entrance and looks like you could probably drop a kayak into the small waterway for a little canal adventure, but all and all there are not a lot of amenities here at this location. I imagine if they have any kind of baseball games here that parking would be very difficult as well as the parking lot is relatively small.

We went to watch my granddaughter play softball. There was plenty of parking and places for the kids to play, run, walk and be kids.