Chapman Field Park, Park in Florida, US

Chapman Field Park is a 483-acre urban park on Old Cutler Road in southern Coral Gables, Florida. Of its 493 acres, 432 remain mangrove forest and saltwater estuary, while 51 acres are developed as a park with three baseball fields and a canoe and kayak ramp. The batting cages and ball fields closed in 2014 over arsenic contamination and are now overgrown.

The land served as a military airfield during World War I, and the Department of Agriculture later used it to grow rubber and mango trees, among the first planted in the United States. In the 1940s, women pilots from the Women's Airforce Service Pilots group trained Navy and Army cadets there, a role recognized by a Florida Historic Marker installed in April 2024.

Chapman Field Park lies on Old Cutler Road in southern Coral Gables, roughly 17 km (about 11 miles) southwest of downtown Miami, and is reached by car. Parking near the canoe and kayak ramp can take boat trailers. The ramp stays open, but the baseball and softball fields and batting cages closed in 2014 over arsenic contamination and are overgrown. Bring insect repellent for the mangroves and water for dogs, as the park has no water stations.

The park is named after Victor Chapman, the first American pilot to die in World War I, shot down over Verdun in 1916 while flying with French volunteers. The same land also hosted some of the first mango trees ever cultivated in the United States, grown there by the Department of Agriculture.