Orlando Sentinel

Water-sports park to open in 2018 in Lake Nona

- By Dewayne Bevil Staff Writer dbevil@orlandosen­tinel.com, 407-420-5477 or Twitter: @ThemeParks

A water-sports park — featuring an inflatable, floating obstacle course and wakeboarde­rs pulled along by cables — is scheduled to open next summer in Lake Nona. Also on tap for the new Nona Adventure Park is a 60-foot climbing tower with ropes course.

Nona Adventure Park will be set up on Adventure Lake, which is adjacent to Laureate City Park.

The inflatable Wibet-style course, a Central Florida first, will be flexible in design and include interconne­cted elements, such as floating pathways, slides, trampoline­s and climbing obstacles for visitors to conquer.

The cable park will have two tracks. The larger course will take riders around a oval-shaped system of six towers, pulled along a 2,500-foot cable. Participan­ts will ski at speeds up to 36 mph. The other track has two towers with a cable that’s 320 feet long. The cables are used in lieu of speedboats.

Meanwhile, on solid ground, the park will include a 60-foot climbing tower that incorporat­es a kids course.

Visitors will be able to buy passes for the whole park or for individual attraction­s. Nona Adventure Park will use RFID wristbands for checking in and for observing wait times.

Nona Adventure Park is owned and operated by entreprene­urs Kai Fusser and Real Bergevin.

Lake Nona is a 17-square-mile community in southeast Orange County owned by Tavistock Group. Other facilities in its emerging sports-innovation and performanc­e district include those for Orlando City soccer, U.S. Tennis Associatio­n, a planned beach-volleyball complex and a planned resort to be anchored by an 11-acre manmade lagoon intended for swimming, paddle boarding, sailing and kayaking — as well as whitesand beaches.

The inflatable Wibet-style course will be flexible in design and include interconne­cted elements, such as floating pathways, slides, trampoline­s and climbing obstacles.

 ?? COURTESY OF WIBIT ?? Nona Adventure Park, opening in 2018, will feature an inflatable aqua park — a series of floating pathways, obstacles, slides and trampoline­s.
COURTESY OF WIBIT Nona Adventure Park, opening in 2018, will feature an inflatable aqua park — a series of floating pathways, obstacles, slides and trampoline­s.

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