North Palm Beach in August: Resident Pool Access, Fishing, and Marina Updates
August 20, 2026
August 20, 2026
On the morning of August 8, lines went into the water at Anchorage Park at 6 a.m. sharp. Inshore anglers worked the calmer water close to the Intracoastal for trout, sheepshead, and snapper, while offshore boats ran out past the inlet chasing king mackerel, dolphin, wahoo, mutton snapper, and grouper. By noon, the docks at Anchorage Park Marina filled with returning boats for the weigh-in, which ran until 3 p.m. Kids gathered at the park gazebo at 1:45 for their own catch-and-release derby, competing in two age brackets for the largest fish of the hour. By 5, everyone was back on land for a cookout, awards, and this year's raffles.
That was the Village's 19th annual Anchorage Aweigh Fishing Tournament, technically the 20th year running since a 2020 cancellation broke the streak. It is one of two North Palm Beach offerings this month with resident pricing. The other is still underway: Resident Appreciation Month at the Country Club Pool.
August is Resident Appreciation Month at the North Palm Beach Country Club Pool, and through August 31, daily admission during recreation swim hours is free for anyone who lives in the Village. It is not a discount code or a loyalty perk. A valid photo ID or other proof of residency is required at check-in. If you are unsure whether your address is within Village limits, the pool page points you to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's site to check.
Tournament participants face different fees depending on whether they are residents.
While residents have been walking into the pool with a driver's license in hand, Seacoast Utility Authority has been mid-project on Marina Drive, replacing aging 6-inch and 8-inch water main and a 4-inch force main between Yacht Club Drive and the northern cul-de-sac. The Village is coordinating its own drainage work alongside it, adding new stormwater inlets in low-lying areas and milling and resurfacing the road once the pipe is in. The project page is straightforward about the tradeoff: expect lane closures, expect detours, and expect marina access and parking to be temporarily restricted while crews work.
There is a reason the work is happening exactly here and not somewhere quieter. Anchorage Park sits on top of one of Seacoast's Major Lift Stations, and a related force main replacement starts at that same lift station before running west under the North Palm Beach Waterway along Ibis Way and crossing Prosperity Farms Road. The lift station places the work beneath Anchorage Park, where construction overlaps with August activity and may affect visitors driving through.
Marina options around North Palm Beach range from a modest park marina to larger facilities serving regional boat traffic.
Anchorage Park Marina itself is public but modestly scaled, built for weigh-ins and day trips rather than long-term dockage. A short run north along the same stretch of Intracoastal, near Coast Guard Channel Marker 27, Safe Harbor Old Port Cove occupies a 60-acre peninsula and takes vessels up to 200 feet, with a recently introduced onsite restaurant, Belle's Café, serving members and transient boaters alike. Down the channel, the separately branded North Palm Beach Marina works a sheltered, keyhole-shaped harbor with 107 slips for boats between 45 and 150 feet, open to the public seven days a week with its own fuel dock and ship's store. These two nearby marinas are commercial operations serving regional boat traffic.
Zoom out a few miles south and the scale gets bigger still. On the former PGA Marina site along PGA Boulevard, PORT 32 Palm Beach Gardens reached a topping-out ceremony on June 4, marking the structural completion of all three buildings in an $80 million ground-up redevelopment. When it opens in December, it will offer 471 total slips, including 451 enclosed dry storage slips, engineered to withstand Category 5 hurricane winds up to 180 mph, with what the developer has called the largest marina forklifts in the country. That facility sits between the Jupiter and Palm Beach Inlets, close enough that boaters based in North Palm Beach will be cross-shopping it against Old Port Cove and the North Palm Beach Marina the moment it opens. It asks nothing about where you live either.
Taken together, these activities show how resident amenities, infrastructure, and commercial boating overlap along the North Palm Beach waterfront.
For residents, August brings free pool admission with proof of residency, while construction on Marina Drive may affect access and parking near the park.
None of this changes day to day much. The pool stays free for residents through the end of the month. The tournament will run again next August, most likely with the same 6 a.m. start and the same gazebo meeting point for the kids' derby. The Marina Drive work will finish, the road will get repaved, and the marinas up and down the Intracoastal will keep adding slips regardless of who owns a house nearby. Taken together, the calendar, road work, and marina development show the range of activity around this stretch of the Intracoastal.
If you are weighing what a home near this stretch of the Intracoastal is actually worth, from dock access to proximity to Anchorage Park itself, Donna Hutchins works this corridor of North Palm Beach closely and can talk through what the waterfront here offers beyond the obvious.
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