Photographs
The pond in winter. The geese are here in numbers and they are not shy, which is most of the appeal if you are three.
A turtle at the pond edge in autumn. Not a promise — but you do see them here.
The shallow end, and the reason the turtle photograph exists. Sweetgum burrs all along the waterline — worth something on your feet.
Still enough on a calm morning to hold the whole treeline upside down.
The same water in midsummer, from the railing. Willows the whole way along the far side.
The stable block and one of the paddocks. It's a working yard rather than an attraction, but you can stand at the rail.
Turnout on the grass in summer.Another former du Pont estate, with a mansion, a track, and a bandstand. More of a neighborhood park than a wilderness one, and used that way.
What's there
Facilities
16/22 confirmed- Beach
- No
- Guarded swimming
- No
- Surf fishing
- No
- Camping
- No
- Cabins
- No
- Trails
- Yes
- Boat launch
- No
- Boat rentals
- No
- Pier
- No
- Disc golf
- Yes
- Playground
- Yes
- Fishing
- Yes
- Kayak or canoe
- Not confirmed
- Crabbing
- Not confirmed
- Water park
- Not confirmed
- Ropes course
- Not confirmed
- Climbing wall
- Not confirmed
- Horse trails
- Yes
- Tennis
- Yes
- Golf
- Not confirmed
- Riding stables
- Yes
- Restrooms
- Yes
Where things are
- Park office
- On the right, immediately after you come in the entrance.
Getting in
- Entry, 2026
- $5 in-state · $10 out-of-stateCharged 1 March – 30 November. Free outside it.
- Annual pass
- $50 for a Delaware-registered vehicle, $100 out of state.Discounted passes are available for active-duty military and veterans; the discounted amounts are not confirmed. Deauville Beach has its own annual pass at $115.
- Where to buy
- Delaware State Parks — passes and permitsOnline at destateparks.com, which issues a virtual pass usable for 30 days from purchase, or at a park office.
- Hours
- 8 a.m. – sunset, daily
- Park office
- 302-761-6963
Dogs
Leashed.
Other parks in New Castle County
- Lums Pond — pond, Bear
- White Clay Creek — creek and woodland, Newark
- Brandywine Creek — creek and woodland, Wilmington
- Alapocas Run — creek and woodland, Wilmington
- Fox Point — riverfront, Wilmington
- Fort Delaware — historic island, Delaware City
- Fort DuPont — historic, Delaware City
- Auburn Valley — estate and woodland, Yorklyn
- Wilmington State Parks — urban, Wilmington
Where it is
Field notes
What I saw on the day. Not checked with anyone, and it can go out of date faster than the facts above.
Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer
No boat launch, no boat rentals and no pier — the pond here isn't that kind of water. There is a playground, and there are restrooms. All five had been sitting at "Not confirmed" for the same reason they were at Alapocas: DNREC's roster lists what a park HAS, so nothing in it distinguishes a facility that's absent from one nobody has checked. There is a park office too, on the right immediately after the entrance — what's still missing there is its phone number, which is a different gap from the building not existing, and the page said "Not confirmed" for both.
Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer
Bellevue has working riding stables — a stable block, paddocks and a ring — and this dataset had no field for them at all. That is the same hole the playground fell through: the state parks type was built from what DNREC publishes, DNREC's park pages talk about paddling and camping and say nothing about horses, and so a facility that is one of the main reasons people come here had nowhere to be recorded. There is a stables field now, and Bellevue is the first record to use it.
Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer
The pond is the other half of this park: Canada geese year-round and turtles on the rocks, shallow and sandy at one end with sweetgum burrs the whole way along the waterline. There is a pavilion and picnic tables on the far bank in the winter photograph, which is another thing this dataset can't currently say about a state park.
Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer
You can fish the big pond here. The dataset had surfFishing and nothing else, which is an ocean fact with its own permits — a pond you can drop a line into had nowhere to live. There's a fishing field now.
Field note · 8 August 2026 · Site maintainer
Ticks here are bad enough to be worth a warning of their own. Cape Henlopen's tick note came off campground reviews; this one is first-hand.
Field note · 4 August 2026 · Site maintainer
Disc golf here too.
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