Photo: Blayr Barton / Wavegarden. Atlantic Park in Virginia Beach, Beach Street Development's open Wavegarden Cove.
HTX Surf, the surf lagoon planned for Generation Park in northeast Houston, is now hoping to open in 2028. Blake Hess, a partner in developer Beach Street Development and its chief operating officer, gave that year in a June email to Community Impact, which noted the project was first expected to open in 2024.
What is planned
HTX Surf is built around a 5.5-acre lagoon, and Wavegarden's announcement in June 2025 put a 52-module Wavegarden Cove at its center, with more than 20 wave types. Around it, Beach Street plans a membership club, a restaurant and bar, a resort-style pool and a beach where spectators can watch. Generation Park is McCord Development's 4,200-acre master-planned community on the northeast edge of Houston, near Lake Houston.
How the date moved
When HTX Surf was announced in October 2022, Beach Street planned to start building a 6-acre lagoon in early 2023 and open in fall 2024, The Real Deal reported. Later reports tied the project to Endless Surf before Wavegarden was confirmed as its technology in June 2025, according to The Inertia. The 2028 target arrived in June 2026.
Memberships
HTX Surf has been selling memberships priced from $250 to $2,000 a month, The Inertia reported in June 2025, and its website still asks would-be members to request information. Its site lists no session prices.
The developer
Beach Street Development opened Atlantic Park in Virginia Beach in 2025 and is behind DSRT Surf in Palm Desert, California, and Wavegarden called HTX Surf the third Beach Street destination to use its Cove. Doug Sheres, a Beach Street co-founder, told The Wall Street Journal: "Getting these things funded has been difficult."
Good to Know
Houston has no open wave pool in our directory. The two open in Texas are Waco Surf and The Surf Lounge at PopStroke in The Colony, and two more, Austin Surf Club and Cannon Beach in McKinney, are planned. HTX Surf's own site, the place to watch for news, gives no opening date.
