Adventure Landing announced Sept. 16 that it will remain open through Sept. 30, 2025.
It had been expected 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-carts, batting cages, miniature golf, an arcade and the Shipwreck Island Waterpark.
The park attracts about 500,000 customers annually, according to the news release. It also says it is the largest youth employer in Duval County with around 280 high school and college workers hired during the summer months.
The lease extension until Sept. 30, 2025, allows the company to celebrate 30 years in operation during 2025. It is booking private parties for the rest of 2024 to September 2025.
This September, the water park will be open on Saturdays and Sundays.
On Oct. 4, it will transform into two haunted houses for the Halloween season.
Season passes for 2025 are now on sale for $139.99 and that includes the remaining dates in 2024.
The apartment project at the Adventure Landing site has been delayed several times. The park originally was to close Oct. 31, 2021.
Zoning for the apartment project was approved in November 2022 after developers reduced the number units to 415, agreed to provide access to the marsh, allow for a “Welcome to Jacksonville Beach” sign on its property and set aside 30 units for affordable housing.
JB Fair Park MF LLC, which shares an address with Trevato, bought the Adventure Landing property in 2021 for $7.87 million.
Adventure Landing owner Hank Woodburn said he approached Trevato earlier in the summer to see whether a 2025 lease extension was possible The extension was granted earlier this month.
“This is our eighth extension. We’d like to stay here as long as we can but that is up to the landowner,” Woodburn said.
“We’ve had a great year in ’24 until the rains started.”
Trevato was approached through its lawyers, Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, and decided not to respond.
The year-to-year lease situation has Woodburn on the lookout for about 16 acres in Duval or St. Johns counties. He has some potential sites but would rather stay put, he said.
The tenuous lease situation has limited Adventure Landing’s ability to add new attractions, Woodburn said.
“The lease does cause a problem with that. But we’ll be cleaning and polishing everything we have now.”