Additional Information for Fort Pierce Inlet State Park

Plant Life

At the park, swimmers and surfers on their way to the beach cross through a community of beach grasses, sea oats and creeping vines. Please walk only on the boardwalks. They protect feet from sandspurs, stinging nettles, prickly pear cactus and also protect the plants that anchor the dunes from being trampled. Behind the dunes lie maritime hammocks (seaside hardwood forests), which are rapidly disappearing outside the park because of demand for land development. A 20-minute, self-guided trail leads through a hammock of wind-pruned live oaks, cabbage palms, sea grapes and strangler figs.

Pets

Special Notice: Effective February 1, 2009, the park's pet policy has been changed to permit pets in the following areas: main parking area, Coastal Hammock Trail, and additional parking area. Pets will not be allowed in the fenced playground area, including Pavilion 3 and the covered picnic tables, and on all sand beach areas, including Dynamite Point beach and the ocean beach. Transporting pets over the beach sand areas is prohibited!

Please see our General Parks Pet Policy for more information.