A credible site with an unusual head start: 120 acres, an existing 60-acre lake, and a buyer who has closed the purchase and named a wave vendor. Everything else, including whether Buckeye approves it, is still ahead.
Hidden Lake Surf Resort is a proposed surf and entertainment destination on 120 acres in Buckeye, on the western edge of metro Phoenix. The site is a former private event venue built around a 60-acre man-made lake, and it sold for about $10.5 million on January 13, 2026 to Ocean Front Property in Arizona LLC, led by founder Drew Boyles. The plan calls for one or more Endless Surf lagoons alongside event space, a music venue, retail, and food and beverage. No approvals, wave specification, or timeline have been announced.
The developer's own materials name Endless Surf as the wave technology, the pneumatic system whose first full-scale installation has been running outside Munich since August 2024, and which is also specified for PHX Surf south of Phoenix and Thermal Beach Club in California. Nothing beyond the vendor has been announced: no caisson count, lagoon size, capacity, or wave menu. Renderings published on the project site are described as conceptual and subject to change. The water plan is the unusual detail. County filings describe filling the lagoons with stored effluent recovered from a new well to be drilled on the property, rather than drawing on municipal supply.
Nobody yet. If it gets built, the West Valley of metro Phoenix, which has grown fast and sits about 45 minutes from downtown with no surf of any kind. For now the only place to actually surf in Arizona is Revel Surf in Mesa.
No pricing announced. For a sense of the local market, Revel Surf in Mesa runs $119 to $139 for an hour in its surf lagoon and $75 on its standing wave.
Nothing to plan. Revel Surf in Mesa is open on the other side of the metro, roughly an hour's drive east. PHX Surf in Maricopa, south of Phoenix, is further along in design though also unbuilt.
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Endless Surf