View of one of the turning basins and docks. There is additional dockage behind the marina building (a starboard turn) that is even more sheltered.

Lake Park Marina guards the mainland shores, north of Peanut Island and Lake Worth Inlet. This facility has not been listed on our “Eastern Florida Anchorage Directory” as it was under reconstruction when our directory was formulated. That omission will soon be remedied!

For cruisers in the West Palm Beach area, waiting for a weather window to pop out to the Bahamas or just looking for a night without anchor watches and with electricity or some other land luxury, you don’t have to break the cruising piggy bank.
Lake Park City Marina, in Lake Park Florida which is adjacent to West Palm Beach, is a low-cost alternative to the high-priced marinas just a wee bit further south down the ICW. There’s less to tour on land by foot, but if all you need is an attractive, clean, well-run marina for the night within walking distance of a Winn Dixie supermarket and a choice of an upscale restaurant and more modest but honest family-run buffet — then Lake Park is a great low-cost choice. When we compared prices, they came in at about half the price of the city marina in West Palm Beach. Depending upon the length of your boat, that can be worth several good dinners out.
The marina itself is attractive, as you can see in the photos here, and it is well sheltered behind a breakwater. The entrance is a little counter-intuitive, but it becomes more clear as you get closer to the breakwater in the entrance channel. Don’t be tempted by the port turn — that takes you somewhere else. If you keep going straight, you’ll see the fuel dock ahead and slightly to starboard.
Showers and rest rooms are excellent and there is free wifi — two key ingredients of a modern marina. Fuel dock is easy access and on all our visits here, we’ve found the marina staff helpful and experienced.
Jane Tigar
S/V Lady Jane