Adventure Landing announced on September 16 that it will remain open through 2025.
It was scheduled to close at the end of September to make way for an apartment project.
Adventure Landing at 1944 Beach Blvd. in Jacksonville Beach is an amusement park with go-karts, batting cages, miniature golf, an arcade and Shipwreck Island Water Park.
The park attracts about 500,000 customers a year, according to the news release. It is also the largest employer of young people in Duval County, with about 280 high school and college employees hired during the summer months.
The lease extension allows the company to celebrate its 30th anniversary throughout 2025. It is hosting private parties for the remainder of 2024 through September 2025.
The water park will be open on the last Saturdays and Sundays of September.
On October 4, it will transform into two haunted houses for the Halloween season.
Season passes for 2025 are now on sale for $139.99 and include the remaining dates in 2024.
The Adventure Landing condo project has been delayed several times. The park was originally scheduled to close on October 31, 2021.
The apartment project's zoning was approved in November 2022 after developers reduced the number of units to 415, agreed to provide access to the marsh, allow a “Welcome to Jacksonville Beach” sign on its property and set aside 30 units for affordable housing.
A 415-unit apartment complex is planned for the site of the Adventure Landing amusement park in Jacksonville Beach.
JB Fair Park MF LLC, which shares an address with Trevato, purchased the Adventure Landing property in 2021 for $7.87 million.
Adventure Landing owner Hank Woodburn said he reached out to Trevato earlier this summer to see if a lease extension through 2025 was possible. The extension was granted earlier this month.
“This is our eighth expansion. We'd like to stay here as long as possible, but it's up to the owner,” Woodburn said.
“We had a great year in 2024 until the rains started.”
Trevato was contacted through his attorneys, Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, and decided not to respond.
The annual lease situation has Woodburn looking at about 16 acres in Duval or St. Johns counties. He has a few potential sites, but he would prefer to stay put, he said.
The precarious lease situation has limited Adventure Landing's ability to add new attractions, Woodburn said.
“The lease is indeed problematic at that level. But we're going to clean and polish everything we have now.”
