Australia's surf park era began when URBNSURF Melbourne opened in 2020, and URBNSURF Sydney became the country's second in 2024. Western Australia, home to Margaret River and a long line of world-class surfers, has watched all of it from the other side of the country. That wait is finally ending. On 2 April 2026, Aventuur marked the official start of construction on Perth Surf Park in Jandakot, and the machine going in the ground is a monster.
When does it open? First waves are expected in spring 2027, roughly September to November in Western Australia. As of 11 October 2026, Aventuur's project page still gives the opening only as late 2027, and its FAQ says pricing is yet to be finalised and will be announced closer to the end of construction and first waves. Memberships are open for registration on Aventuur's site.
A Cove as big as they come
The centerpiece is a 62-module Wavegarden Cove, which Aventuur describes as the equal largest in the world; Wavegarden lists Beyond the Club in São Paulo at 62 modules too. For scale, that is ten more than the 52-module Cove at DSRT Surf in California. Aventuur says the 62 modules will give Perth the largest, longest and highest quality waves of any surf park in Australia. Its FAQ describes four zones, a left and right reef and a left and right bay, with waves from 0.5-metre whitewater to 2-metre barrels and an average reef ride of 120 metres. It is the same Cove technology that runs at Alaia Bay and The Wave Bristol.
Aventuur has put the lagoon at 2.2 hectares (about 5.4 acres, around the size of Optus Stadium) and the project at A$120 million, and it expects more than a million visits a year. It says the project is privately funded, with institutional investment from the Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC), further investment from project partner Wyllie and debt funding from NAB. Its chair, Andrew Ross, called the start of construction a significant milestone and described the park as 'by the West, for the West'.
A wave you can catch the train to
The site sits on Prinsep Road in Jandakot, in Perth's southern suburbs, adjacent to the Kwinana Freeway. PerthNow reported in January that the lagoon will be less than 400 metres from Cockburn Central train station, and Aventuur puts the park 25 minutes from the Perth CBD. A world-class wave next to a train station is a sentence that still feels strange to type, but it follows the same logic as Sydney's pool at Sydney Olympic Park: put the wave where the people already are.
Around the lagoon, the plans go well past surfing. A high-performance surf academy, a members' clubhouse, a wellness and recovery studio, a skate park and pump track, a Rip Curl flagship store, a beach club, a restaurant and bars, an events lawn, and rooftop glamping for anyone determined to sleep next to the wave. Aventuur expects more than 280 jobs during construction and around 100 full-time roles once the park is running.
The timeline
Aventuur had moved onto the site for preparatory works by January 2026, PerthNow reported, ahead of the official start of construction on 2 April. First waves are expected in spring 2027, which in Australian terms means roughly September to November of next year, with the public opening to follow later in 2027. Wavegarden's 29 April 2026 project update put Perth at 10% complete. That is a long runway, and this project's dates have moved before: PerthNow reported that construction had initially been planned for late 2025, and Perth is OK! notes the park was once pencilled in for a 2026 opening. What it has going for it now is that the funding is in place, the ground is broken, and Wavegarden said in April that 12 of its facilities were already operating across four continents. It is the only Australian project our directory lists as under construction.
Why Perth, of all places
Fair question, given Perth sits beside what Perth is OK! calls one of the world's great coastlines. The answer is the surf Perth surfers actually contend with, which the same outlet calls reliably average, with tide, swell and wind turning ocean surfing around the metro area into a lottery. Aventuur's FAQ makes the same case: surfing is central to Perth's beach culture, but access to consistent waves and safe conditions is limited, especially for beginners. A city with that gap is close to the ideal surf park market. Perth is Aventuur's first project, though the site was the state's choice: the WA Government picked Prinsep Road after reviewing dozens of options across greater Perth, and in 2021 it invited Aventuur into a competitive bid, naming it preferred proponent that September.
Aventuur says it holds exclusive rights to the Wavegarden Cove in markets across North America, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Fiji, a portfolio covering 700,000 square kilometres. Its pipeline includes an Auckland park where earthworks have begun for a 2028 opening, and a Jacksonville, Florida project targeting 2028.
The Auckland project stands out for one detail: Aventuur is seeking to warm the lagoon there with heat captured from an on-site data centre, with a 7-hectare solar farm on the same site providing renewable energy for the data centre. Aventuur calls it a world first.
For now, the news is simpler and better than any of that. One of the biggest wave pools on Earth is out of the renderings and into the dirt, and if the schedule holds, Perth will have a world-class wave next to a train station by late 2027. WA's surfers have waited long enough.
Rendering courtesy of Aventuur.
