Indian River Park South Side — Attraction in Chesapeake

This park is beautiful but there are several things you should be aware of.

If your plan is to go hiking or biking, don’t go to the posted address (1709 Rokeby) - go to 2003 Rokeby Avenue instead. 2003 Rokeby is the access point for trails, etc.

While beautiful, the trails are poorly marked. It’s hard to even make sense of them. It’s as if they were marked out by an inebriated person - truly. Major forks are unmarked (as if someone forgot what they’re supposed to be doing, lol). The trails are filled with random paint colors (some crossed out) and unintelligible markings. All that to say, if you have a poor sense of direction, bring your phone for GPS. Chesapeake’s best and brightest certainly did not mark these paths! 😂

Hikers, be prepared to leap off the path to avoid collisions. Cyclists use even the walking trails and they’ll come barreling towards you. I’m hesitant to bring my 6 year old daughter here for this reason.

I feel it’s worth mentioning that this park isn’t particularly well maintained. Trash receptacles are putrid and overflowing and several “bridges” are out of service.

Overall, this is a beautiful place and a surprising, mostly pleasant find in the middle of a busy...

The park is gorgeous but there are a lot of problems, first is google maps location for the trail part of the park is wrong. The trails are located off of Drew Dr. well that’s the only entrance I found & there was no parking so I parked by the street & the trail is dirty, when I went there was a lot of trash, the little stream looked disgusting & it was pretty sketchy. As I walked deeper in the park I stumbled into a few homeless peoples home? I’m not sure if there are always homeless people living there in makeshift tents with clothes hanging up or if it was a one time thing but it made me feel like I shouldn’t be there alone, so I turned around & the trails are very poorly marked so I almost got lost multiple times & it says nature trail but it’s mainly just for bikes, it not really made for dog walks & I was only there about an hour & when I got to my car between me & my 2 dogs I found 9 ticks on us, that’s a lot for a short time. So I won’t come back but if you’re into mountain biking this is your place. I suggest not going here alone unless you have protection...

Great park for biking. While you can definitely take a walk in this park it is more geared towards the cyclist. A large majority of the paths are narrow but do widen in some areas. There's also an area where you cross over a field into another portion of the park where there are jumps if you're in the BMX riding. While it is a great park, I give four stars because of the excessive amount of roots that are on the trails. This is probably something that's not preventable but it doesn't make for a smooth ride. Aside from the field you cross into from one area of the park to the other the park itself is 100% shaded so thats nice. I don't know if you want a good bike run with jumps and trail riding this is the park for you. I would go back but I definitely won't bring my infant cart next time. One of our favorite parts for biking is Oak Grove Park. It's a mile and a half loop around the lake and the path is very wide, enough for two-way traffic. ...