Neptune Beach Surf Club is not open yet. The developer is targeting 2029. It runs Endless Surf in Alameda, California, USA.
Verified September 2026
The first serious wave pool proposal for the Bay Area, on a site with real advantages and a published operating plan. It is also competing for public land with no application filed, so the next milestone is a land agreement rather than a shovel.
Neptune Beach Surf Club is a proposed 5.5-acre surf park at Alameda Point, on former Naval Air Station land across the estuary from Oakland. The plan centers on a two-acre Endless Surf lagoon for up to 50 surfers at a time, with a public bar and restaurant, a beach with cabanas, a canoe club, a pump track, and a surf center in a converted Navy building. The roughly $50 million project is led by Pro Swell and Urban Mix Development, with William Duncanson of BAR Architecture as project lead. It would be the first surf lagoon in the San Francisco Bay Area.
A two-acre Endless Surf lagoon, the pneumatic system running at O2 SurfTown in Munich. Endless Surf's Andrew Thatcher told the SF Standard it would allow rides of up to 19 seconds, with beginner-friendly waves near the beach and bigger settings at the back, from an intermediate A-frame to a longer point break. The published capacity is up to 50 surfers. None of it is fixed. No caisson count has been announced and the design will change if the land deal and entitlements move.
The Bay Area, eventually. Northern California has cold-water ocean surf at Ocean Beach, Pacifica and Santa Cruz but no wave pool, so a pool in the urban core would mostly serve beginners, families and surfers who want repetitions without the drive.
Not bookable, but the team published intended rates when it went public in June 2025: about $85 an hour for beginner waves, $145 for the intermediate A-frame, and $200 for the advanced point break, with gear rental included and a 30-minute dry-land lesson for beginners. Those are pre-entitlement figures for a park targeting 2029, so treat them as intent rather than a price list.
Nothing to book, and no wave pool alternative in Northern California yet. Alchemy Surf Resort near Sacramento won Placer County planning approval in September 2026. Alameda Point itself is worth a stop regardless for the breweries and distilleries on Spirits Alley and the skyline views across the bay.
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When does Neptune Beach Surf Club open?
Neptune Beach Surf Club is under development, with opening expected in 2029. The land deal is the thing to watch here. As of June 2025, Alameda's planning department said no formal plans had been filed, and the site is public parkland the developers would lease rather than buy. That approach drew a competing pitch: SurfLoch chief executive Tom Lochtefeld wrote to the City Council on July 1, 2026 asking for an open competitive solicitation instead of a negotiation with a single developer, arguing a sale would put development risk on the buyer. After a closed session on the negotiations on July 7, 2026, the council voted 5-0 to direct staff to schedule a community workshop in the fall on the merits of a surf park project, any potential exclusive negotiating agreement process and community benefits, and to return to closed session on a potential exclusive negotiating agreement after the workshop. The workshop is on the agenda for a city council meeting on 4 November 2026. The team hopes to break ground within 24 to 30 months of mid-2025 and open in 2029, which assumes a smooth path through a process that has not formally started.
Where is Neptune Beach Surf Club?
Neptune Beach Surf Club is in Alameda, California, USA. The nearest airport is Oakland International, about 20 minutes by car.
