Published on February 28, 2025 at 11:30 am
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The newest park in St. Johns County will open Saturday morning.
Mill Creek Park on State Road 16 in St. Augustine cost more than $12 million to build and is the county’s first new park in more than a decade.
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It is going to be used for several different sports, including baseball, softball, flag football, soccer and even lacrosse.
Teddy Meyer is the St. Johns County Parks and Recreation facility manager. He says the multipurpose outdoor recreation space was a prime focus to come to the western corridor of World Golf Village.
“You couple that with right next door, you have retail and a large amount of residential housing coming in,” Meyer said. “We are going to be very much inundated and creating an opportunity as that area grows to grow into the facility. We needed something to kind of balance that growth on the western part of World Golf [Village].”
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Meyer said planning and construction were in the works since as early as 2008.
“It has been a long time coming,” he said. “The housing market tanked and a lot of these projects with these developments on that side of World Golf were put on the shelf. Fast forward to now, it is crazy to think that we are talking 2025 and we are just getting it done. That is how long it’s taken for all of the things to come together.”
The new complex also has four batting cages, restrooms, concessions and turf.
Meyer says all of the amenities open the door for members of the Village Athletic Association to play baseball and softball, an adult soccer league called BASL and the county’s internal programming division’s adult flag football group to show off their skills, along with the public.
“The turf is massive,” Meyer said. “If you think about it, the large user is Monday through Thursday for practices, weekday use. The games occur on the weekends. It is lined for American football, American soccer, and lacrosse as well.”
A ribbon-cutting ceremony along with first pitch ceremonies are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
A full slate of action on the fields is already lined up as Meyer says games are expected between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m.
This story was produced by News4Jax, a Jacksonville Today news partner.
