Hearts broke across Northeast Florida when it was revealed that Adventure Landing in Jacksonville Beach would be no more, demolished to make way for a planned apartment community. NO, not our beloved Shipwreck Island Waterpark! But then they were open over Halloween… and Christmas. They hired a new crew of lifeguards and remained open over Spring Break… and an entire full year. And now, it turns out that they won’t be closing at all! Adventure Landing will remain in Jacksonville indefinitely. We’re so excited — lazy river, here we come!
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APRIL FOOLS!
We got ya! We know we made a lot of people mad last year with this post (okay, and the year before), but hey… look what happened! We get yet another summer with our beloved Adventure Landing water park, so maybe our little April Fools trick worked?! And you never know, maybe the powers that be will hear us and keep it open indefinitely. (A mama can dream.) Just don’t spoil the fun in the Facebook comments section — instead, let’s keep the joke going, and share it with your friends.
For more (real posts) on theme parks and water parks, check out some of these Jacksonville Mom favorites:
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Good one! As big as Jacksonville is you’d think that someone in power or that has money would bring in MORE places for families to entertain themselves! There’s only so many times you can take the family to the Zoo. Just think of all the missed opportunities we’ve had, Disney looked here first, but the powers that be said no.😢
It’s so sad that they are closing the water park to build more high rise apartments. Families need this type of recreation to be be able to enjoy family time without driving out of our community to spend our money. Jacksonville needs more things to do for our growing families. Why do we want to spend our money in other counties. I’m sure there is other land available to build more apartments!
I agree 🙁 I was so excited to start take my daughter here since it’s one of the few things to do where we don’t have to drive to Orlando and now it’s going away.
1 could only hope! What a fun place to be over the summers!