I first filmed Ann & Chuck Dever Regional Park in November 2025. This time I came back with the Mini 5 Pro and pushed farther beyond the recreation center. The first flight showed the park. The return flight finally showed me how much ground it holds.
Three hundred fifteen acres is a lot of park.
The front side is easy to understand from the parking lot. There is a 23,000-square-foot recreation center, a competition pool, football fields, basketball and tennis courts, a skate park, disc golf, cricket and a dog park. It looks like Charlotte County gathered every kind of recreation it could fit and gave each one a piece of the property.
From the air, that busy side becomes geometry. The blue pool sits beside the pale roofs. Fields and courts break the grass into rectangles. Paths connect one use to the next. Then the lines loosen as the camera moves toward the back of the park.
That is where the place changes. Ann & Chuck Dever was formerly called Oyster Creek Regional Park. Of its 315.6 acres, Charlotte County identifies 50 acres for active use and 120 acres as environmental land, with another 36 acres north of the creek. The numbers make sense once the drone is high enough. Recreation occupies one section. The rest starts folding into pine, scrub and water.
The Oyster Creek Waterfront Trail connects this park with Cedar Point Environmental Park. It follows the creek and passes beneath State Road 775, tying the two properties together without sending walkers back onto the road. From above, that green connection matters more than any single field or court.
The park was built in 2007. The recreation center arrived in 2019. Both are substantial, but neither one explains the whole place. The interesting part is the seam between the developed side and the older Florida behind it.
That was the reason for coming back. I did not need another version of the same flight. I needed to go farther and let the park show its second half.
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Another Englewood flight from the same stretch of coast: Lighthouse Grill and Stump Pass Marina.
