Golden Gate Community Park — Attraction in Florida

All of the parks in Naples are gorgeous and the Golden Gate Community Park is no exception. This park serves the Golden Gate community located in the far northeastern part of the Naples. Golden Gate began as a development in the 1950s and 1960s from 175 square mile of Everglades swampland purchased in the late 1950's by Jack and Leonard Rosen, founders of Gulf American Corporation. Before Golden Gate, the Gulf American Corporation had success in developing Cape Coral. Neighborhoods in Golden Gate include Golden Gate City, Golden Gate Estates, Forest Park, Berkshire Village, and Safe Harbor. Unlike many west coast neighborhoods,, Golden Gate has no gulf coast access. It does however have many miles of canals.

Golden Gate Community Park is located on one of the canals and has a launch for the type of small watercraft the canals are ideal for. Another draw to the park is the aquatic facility that has a 25-yard by 25-meter heated pool, a children’s activity pool, a wading pool, a 177-foot open slide, a 122-foot closed slide, one 1-meter springboard and one 3-meter springboard. The aquatic facility charges a nominal entrance for residents. There is also a fitness center with treadmills, ellipticals, free weights and weight machines. You can purchase monthly and yearly fitness memberships. Other park amenities include a lighted little league field, lighted baseball field, lighted soccer/football fields, lighted basketball court, 4 lighted tennis racquetball courts, shuffleboard courts, bocce court, playground, restrooms, and picnic pavilions which can be rented. As a visitor, my favorite part of the park was the nearly one mile paved fitness trail.

I love how this park offers something for all ages. Take the kids to the pool or playground, exercise at he fitness center, participate in team sports at one of the fields, or enjoy a picnic in one of the pavilions. The options for recreation are endless in this well...

My family has a membership to the facility and recently we saw the kids swimming promotions, so we asked for details. After a couple days we came in with our 5 years old for him to join the swimming lessons and we did explain that he already knew how to swim, we show them videos also we did ask them if they want to watch him swimming across the pool so they could determine his right level,,,, Right away we were told that he was going to lv2 , after two classes out the 8 he had to take we saw that none in his class knew how to swim very well yet, At this point the level of frustration went a bit high, not sure what we PAID for....? I asked for my money back but i never heard again from them, no apologies or nothing,,,, Not happy at all..!!!

Taking our issue to a higher level.

I attached a photo of my kid new class, swim Florida...

Nice play area for kids, but really wish they would put some sort of covering over the playground as they do at a lot of other parks, because that area gets HOT during the day. I take our kid here sometimes just because it's close, but I try to go in the late afternoon or evening after the sun has gone down some to avoid the worst of the heat. The bathrooms... Wow, they need help. They need to be updated, and / or at the very least, thoroughly serviced and cleaned. They're the equivalent of a neglected bathroom at a rest stop. Parents and especially kids there deserve a reasonably clean, maintained restroom they can use, and they don't...