George Petty Park — Attraction in West Palm Beach

This park used to be named Royal Palm Park. It had it's named changed in 1990 to honor George Petty, a Palm Beach resident and Canadian paper magnate. Some residents weren't too happy to have a park named after someone they considered an outsider. Petty used $750,000 of his money to start the Good Neighbor Council, a group that focused on fighting noise from the airport. The park is a strip of land in the historic 1920's Prospect Park neighborhood that runs from Washington Ave to the Intracoastal. This park used to sit directly under the flight path of planes traveling to and from West Palm Beach Airport. As a result take offs and landings were fanned over the city instead of concentrated over this one neighborhood.

This park does not have a parking lot, you have to park on the street, It does have a small playground and benches but it's best amenity is the view of the Intracoastal. You can see Mar-a-Lago is across from the park along with other Palm Beach mansions. The houses in this neighborhood aren't too shabby either. The neighborhood is a cool place to admire 1920's architecture and the park gives a great view...

Wanted to take my granddaughter to a different park and knew of this one. On arrival discovered a portion of the park was torn up due to construction( appears to be storm drain )so you could not go to the water. The grass is over grown and while my granddaughter played on the equipment I spent time picking up trash, food debris and other items that lazy people didn't put in the garbage can only a...

Very pleasant area in a beautiful neighborhood. We were surprised by the very small strip of beach at the Intracoastal area of the park. There are 2 picnic tables. Recommended for family and...