DSRT Surf Palm Desert Wavegarden Resort Sets Summer 2026 Opening
DSRT Surf Palm Desert is set to bring a Wavegarden surf lagoon to the California desert, with Phase 1 planned for summer 2026. The City of Palm Desert announced that DSRT Surf will open its 5.5-acre surf lagoon and leisure pool as the first phase of a larger surf resort planned between the golf courses at Desert Willow Golf Resort.
The announcement, published through PR Newswire, describes DSRT Surf as a premier surf resort built around Wavegarden Cove technology. The system is designed to create consistent, ocean-like waves for beginner and advanced surfers at the same time.
According to the release, the Wavegarden Cove system can produce up to 1,000 waves per hour in multiple styles. Phase 1 is expected to include the surf lagoon and leisure pool, while later plans call for a 139-key barefoot luxury hotel, 57 private luxury villas, yoga, restaurants, and pickleball courts.
Why Breath3in is watching this
This is exactly the kind of press release Breath3in should track because it shows how sport, hospitality, real estate, travel, and leisure are collapsing into one destination product. DSRT Surf is not only a place to surf. It is a bet that people will travel, gather, train, eat, stay, and socialize around a manufactured wave in the desert.
That matters because surf parks are changing what access to surf culture can mean. The ocean is still the ocean. Nothing replaces that. But wave technology changes the rhythm of the sport. It creates scheduled sessions, repeatable progression, beginner access, family access, coaching, hospitality packages, and destination planning.
For Palm Desert, the signal is even sharper. The city already has golf, resorts, sunshine, and a travel economy. DSRT Surf adds a new active layer to that landscape. A desert trip can now be built around golf in the morning, surfing in the afternoon, dinner after, and eventually a hotel room on-site. That is not a small shift.
Water and destination context
The release also points to the water question, which matters in the desert. DSRT Surf says its surf lagoon will be a net-zero water user through a “Turf for Surf” program that converted 30 acres of adjacent golf course turf into drought-tolerant and native landscaping. The release says that landscape conversion is expected to save 34.8 million gallons of water annually, compared with projected lagoon use of 23.8 million gallons, for a net annual savings of 11 million gallons.
Those claims will matter for public perception as much as operations. A surf lagoon in the desert is visually exciting, but it also asks a fair question: why here, and at what cost? DSRT Surf is positioning water conservation and native landscaping as part of the answer.
Company context
DSRT Surf describes itself as a new surf destination built around consistency, accessibility, and experience. Its public site calls the wave the start of the product, with the full day designed to bring people back.
The resort is planned for 105 Wave Drive in Palm Desert, California. The first phase is focused on the wave lagoon and leisure pool, with the hotel, villas, and broader hospitality amenities planned as Phase 2.
Breath3in note
Breath3in publishes selected press releases and company news from the people, places, brands, and operators shaping active culture, wellness, recovery, hospitality, travel, sport, and capital. This release is included because it shows how wave pools and surf resorts are becoming part of the next active hospitality map.
This also connects directly to Breath3in’s broader reporting on surf parks and destination play. Read The Rise of Stoke and The Desert Wants a Wave for more context on why manufactured surf is becoming a serious hospitality signal. For the larger operating idea, see The Product Was Never The Event.
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Source: City of Palm Desert press release via PR Newswire and DSRT Surf. This post is company news and should not be read as an endorsement, travel recommendation, investment recommendation, or confirmation of final opening details. Opening timing and project scope may change.