Every Surf Lakes Surf Park
2 installations across 2 countries, none open yet. Counts and prices come straight from our park records, so this list changes as the parks do.
A standard Surf Lakes installation has been reported around $50 million to build, though session rates and a firm system price have not been published.
A 1,400-ton central plunger, driven by air pressure, drops into the middle of a circular lake and sends concentric swells radiating outward in every direction at once, the way ripples spread from a stone dropped in water. Those swells break against a contoured lake floor positioned around the ring, so a single plunge produces several different waves simultaneously, from gentle whitewater to steeper barreling sections, which is where the system's '5 Waves' name comes from. So far it has only run at full scale at the company's Yeppoon prototype; a commercial installation like Peak would be an early real-world test of the technology at a paying public venue.
Surf Lakes was founded by Australian mining engineer Aaron Trevis, who first conceived the concentric-wave concept in 2006 after watching ripples spread from a stone skipped across a lake, then began prototyping in his own backyard pool in 2012. Surf Lakes Holdings Ltd formally incorporated on July 1, 2016, with co-founders Chris Hawley and Reuben Buchanan. The company's full-scale prototype near Yeppoon, Queensland first produced surfable waves on October 22, 2018, and opened to the public in 2020. Peak Surf Park, planned near Tampa, Florida, would be among the first commercial Surf Lakes installations anywhere.
