If you have lived in the Village for even a season, you already know the shape of a North Palm Beach weekend. What has changed this year is where it starts and where it ends. The southern edge of that loop, along the Lake Park Harbor Marina, now has a fine-dining anchor it did not have last August. The northern edge, Anchorage Park, has quietly become the busiest civic calendar in the 33408 ZIP. And the middle, the Country Club at 951 US-1, spent the spring throwing itself a hundredth birthday party and never quite went back to being members-only in spirit.
Three anchors, one loop. Here is what the map looks like right now, if you are the one already living inside it.
The southern anchor: a marina table that wasn't here last summer
For years the drive south on US-1 past Silver Beach Road was a construction detour. That ended on March 25, 2026, when Nautilus 220, a two-tower mixed-use waterfront development at 220 Lake Shore Drive in Lake Park, officially opened, spanning approximately 1.15 million square feet across 330 condominium residences in two 24-story structures overlooking the Lake Park Harbor Marina, in what the development team describes as the largest condo-anchored mixed-use project in Palm Beach County. The Village line runs a few blocks north, so this is not technically our address. It is, however, the closest new waterfront restaurant to most of the neighborhood, and it changes the geometry of a Friday night.
The anchor tenant is SeaHawk Prime by David Burke, which debuted January 1 at Nautilus 220, a modern American steakhouse set along the Intracoastal Waterway that marks Burke's Florida debut. Burke has spent a career on this kind of opening, and the room reflects it. Designed by New York–based Lemay_id, the 7,500-square-foot, 221-seat space features nautical accents, a reclaimed vintage clinker boat, and a hybrid open-air bar that connects the dining room to a waterfront terrace. The suspended skiff is worth a look on its own. Named "Silver Beach," it was bought from an area native and references the strand of beach that was on the condo's original property, when the town was known as Kelsey City.
The menu is where Burke's fingerprints show. All meats are salt-aged in pink Himalayan salt, in a salt wall-lined aging room that Burke built out on site because the process is antimicrobial, tenderizes, prevents bad bacteria and intensifies the flavors. If you have never had his clothesline bacon, order it once. It is the sort of table trick that reads better in person than in a description.
"SeaHawk Prime is an expression of how I like to cook, rooted in classic steakhouse traditions, but pushed forward through inventive techniques and bold flavor," Burke told Modern Luxury before the opening.
Next door, connected by the terrace, is the second half of the ecosystem. The Birdie Dockside Bar and Grill offers elevated American grill fare and an interactive atmosphere featuring high-tech sports suite simulators, waterfront views and a premier private event space. The pairing is deliberate. One room for anniversaries. One room for the Sunday game. Both a five-minute drive from the north end of Prosperity Farms Road.
The northern anchor: what's actually on Anchorage Park's calendar
Drive back up US-1, cross Lighthouse Drive, and the second anchor is Anchorage Park at 603 Anchorage Drive. This is the Village's working civic space, not a scenic one. Its feature list runs to a youth baseball field, four sand volleyball courts, activities buildings, a permit-only boat launch, dog parks, dry boat storage, wet boat slips, fishing, picnic areas and a playground, and in a given week the calendar reads like a small town's version of a group text.
For late July and August 2026, the recurring rotation looks like this:
- Storytime and Craft at Anchorage Park, mornings, geared to families with young children
- Dog Days of Summer, early morning sessions at the park
- Library's Music & Movement at Anchorage Park, an outdoor session run by Village librarians Ms. Carly and Ms. Liz, weather permitting
- Tai Chi, a standing 10 a.m. hour with a local instructor
- Adult leagues and open gyms at the North Palm Beach Community Center at 1200 Prosperity Farms Road, including 18+ Women's 3v3 Basketball, adult basketball, youth volleyball, and pickleball open gym
The anchor event for anyone with a rod in the garage is the 19th annual Anchorage Aweigh Fishing Tournament at Anchorage Park, which is actually the 20th year of the tournament, one year having been cancelled due to Covid-19. The format is straight local. Lines go in at 6:00 a.m., weigh-in is at the Anchorage Park Marina from noon to 3:00 p.m., inshore anglers fish for trout, sheepshead, and snapper, and offshore anglers fish for king, dolphin, wahoo, mutton snapper, and grouper. The finish line is a cookout. All participants and their families are invited to a cookout, entertainment, awards celebration and raffles, with the cookout and awards ceremony beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Kids fish a different bracket. The Kids Fishing Derby runs from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Anchorage Park, participants meet at the Anchorage Park Gazebo at 1:45 p.m., bringing your own fishing rod is required and bait is provided, and it is catch and release.
If you have kids in the 6-to-14 range and you are new to the neighborhood, this is the single best day on the Village calendar for meeting the families who have been here longer than you.
The middle anchor: the Country Club after the centennial
Between Anchorage Park to the north and the Lake Park marina to the south sits the Village's most visible piece of real estate, the North Palm Beach Country Club at 951 US-1. This spring it turned a hundred. The Centennial ran April 30 to May 3, with throwback pricing and fireworks over the golf course honoring the Country Club's rich history while bringing the community together. Everything happened. Charity skins with local pros. A glow tennis night. A pool party with a swim team exhibition and a floating chipping challenge. A ten-minute fireworks show over the fairway.
What matters now, in August, is the residue. The centennial pushed the public-facing side of the club forward, and the dining room has stayed there. Lessing's Hospitality Group is the exclusive restaurant and catering partner, offering dining at The Clubhouse and The Grill Room with prix fixe selections, small plates and familiar favorites for breakfast, lunch or dinner, plus The Snack Shack by the pool for quick bites. None of these rooms require a golf handicap. The Country Club is publicly owned by the Village of North Palm Beach and open to the general public seven days a week, and the current 37,000-square-foot clubhouse, which replaced the original 1963 building demolished in 2018, offers panoramic views of the redesigned Jack Nicklaus Signature golf course.
The course itself is a fact worth stating precisely. The links-style layout is one of only two municipal courses in the United States designed by Jack Nicklaus himself. That is the sort of line most residents have half-heard and never checked. It is also the reason the club's fall race exists in the first place.
Circle October 31. The 7th Annual North Palm Beach LINKS 5K Ghost Run runs Saturday, October 31, 2026, a 3.1-mile route across the newly renovated Jack Nicklaus Signature course. The route walks and runs across turf you cannot access any other day of the year without a tee time.
One loop, three stops
If you are hosting out-of-town guests this month and you want the Village to do the work, here is the sequence that uses all three anchors in a single Saturday.
- Morning at Anchorage Park. If the calendar lines up with a Tai Chi hour or a Storytime and Craft, walk in. Otherwise, launch a kayak from the boat ramp or take the dogs to the off-leash area. Park at 603 Anchorage Drive.
- Lunch at The Grill Room or the Snack Shack. Cross US-1 south to 951 US-1. The pool-adjacent Snack Shack is the right call if guests are in shorts. The Grill Room is the right call if they are not. Either way you are inside the 37,000-square-foot clubhouse with a Nicklaus view.
- Dinner at SeaHawk Prime. Drop south on US-1 to 220 Lake Shore Drive. Ask for the terrace side of the hybrid bar. Order the clothesline bacon whether or not anyone at the table thinks they want it.
Three stops, roughly six miles, all along the US-1 corridor that most residents drive daily without thinking of as a route.
The one date worth adding to the calendar now
Between the tournament weekend at Anchorage Park, the Ghost Run on the fairway October 31, and the fact that Nautilus 220 will keep filling in through the fall (the condominiums are more than 90 percent sold, with a limited collection of two- and three-bedroom residences priced from $1.3 million to over $4 million), the Village's autumn is going to look busier than its summer did. That is unusual for North Palm Beach, where the calendar historically thins out until snowbird season starts in November.
The takeaway for anyone already living here is small and specific. The center of gravity of a North Palm Beach weekend has moved. It used to be a single stop, usually the club or the beach. It is now a loop with a defined south end, a defined north end, and a middle that finally has a public reason to invite you in. Learn the loop before December, when the seasonal residents learn it for you.
If you are thinking about how your own property fits into the changing shape of the Village, or you are curious what the SeaHawk Prime effect is doing to values on the south side of the neighborhood, Donald Lilly is happy to walk the map with you. Schedule a Free Consultation to talk it through.
