For more than fifty years, the go-kart park at 4114 South Nova Road in Port Orange was Go-Kart City — a local institution of timed laps, mini golf and arcade noise. In 2023 new owners bought it, closed it, and rebuilt it as Tiki Adventure Zone — and unusually, they filmed the whole transformation themselves. This page is that story, before and after.

GO KART CITY- NOW TIKI ADVENTURE ZONE

Tiki Adventure Zone

The new owners walk the closed, 50-year-old Go-Kart City in May 2023 and lay out the rebuild on camera: remodeled arcade building, a fenced and enclosed property, a junior kart track, batting cages, the Mystic Harbor mini golf and zip lines — and the new name on the shirt, Tiki Adventure Zone. The before picture for everything the later films show finished.

Key takeaways
  • Go-Kart City stood on this Port Orange site for 50-plus years
  • The 2023 film announces the rebuild and the Tiki Adventure Zone name
  • Plans shown: junior track, batting cages, mini golf, zip lines

New Update on Tiki Adventure Zone

Tiki Adventure Zone

The May 2024 update from Tiki Adventure Zone at 4114 South Nova Road, Port Orange: permits finally in hand after months of delay, a new barrier system the owners call one of the safest in Florida, GPS-tracked karts, the rebuilt main building with its red roof, the walkway to the Mystic Harbor mini golf and the wagon bar. Pairs with the August update to show the rebuild converging.

Key takeaways
  • Address given on camera: 4114 S Nova Rd, Port Orange
  • Karts are GPS-tracked and timed
  • Mini golf course is called Mystic Harbor

Tiki Adventure Zone Update tour Aug 28,2024

Tiki Adventure Zone

An August 2024 update tour of Tiki Adventure Zone (formerly Go-Kart City) with managers Danny and Dean: the repaved go-kart track with new barriers and a timing system, baseball and softball batting lanes, the redone bathrooms and the new kart garage, at about 90% complete with permits holding the opening. The fullest tour of the rebuilt facility in this set.

Key takeaways
  • Repaved track with electronic timing — lap times are the product now
  • Batting cages run baseball and softball lanes
  • Filmed weeks before the park opened

The before: the park locals remember

Helmet-camera laps of the old track, karts running in the rain for the fun of the slide, a tour of the old arcade, and a full 18-hole family round on the Mystic Harbor mini golf course in 2022 — water hazards lived up to, a two-stroke winning margin. This is the park three generations of locals grew up in, preserved by its own visitors.

The rebuild, update by update

The owners' May 2023 walk-through of the closed park lays out the plan: remodeled arcade building, fenced and enclosed grounds, a junior kart track, batting cages, the Mystic Harbor golf kept, zip lines. The May 2024 update shows permits finally in hand, a new barrier system the owners call one of the safest in Florida, and GPS-tracked karts. By August 2024 the repaved track, timing system, batting lanes and kart garage stood about 90% done, permits holding the opening.

Now open!! tiki adventure is finally here to serve the community

Tiki Adventure Zone

Opening day at Tiki Adventure Zone, October 25, 2024: manager Dean tours the finished park — the counter and card system, redone bathrooms, a full arcade with a motion driving simulator, seven batting-cage lanes, the mini golf entrance, the fenced grounds and the repaved parking lot at 4114 South Nova Road, Port Orange. The rebuild films in this set end here: Go-Kart City, officially reborn.

Key takeaways
  • Tiki Adventure Zone opened October 25, 2024, as filmed
  • Everything runs on a tap-card system
  • Arcade, batting cages, mini golf and the timed kart track all shown finished

Hole N One @Go Kart City Port Orange Fl #minigolf #holeinone #daytonabeach

Car Mob

Car Mob takes a day off from car content to play the Mystic Harbor mini golf at Go-Kart City in Port Orange — an 18-hole family round with running scores, water hazards lived up to, and a two-stroke winning margin. Filmed in 2022, before the Tiki Adventure Zone rebuild, it is the only long look at the old park's golf course in this set.

Key takeaways
  • The mini golf side of the old Go-Kart City, played in full
  • Filmed in 2022, before the rebuild and rebrand
  • Family-round format with hole-by-hole scores

Racing Go-Karts in Port Orange, FL (GOPRO Crash) 1080 HD

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Helmet-camera laps of the old Go-Kart City track in Port Orange — the pre-rebuild circuit from the driver's seat, exactly as thousands of locals remember it.

Opening day

It ends October 25, 2024: the finished park toured on opening day — counter and tap-card system, a full arcade with a motion driving simulator, seven batting-cage lanes, the mini golf entrance and the repaved lot. Lap times are the product now: the karts are timed and GPS-tracked, a long way from the old park's honor system — and the same red-roofed plot of Nova Road the whole way through.

Sources: the 8 videos on this page, filmed at 4114 South Nova Road, Port Orange, between 2022 and 2024.

Watch: Go-Kart City Port Orange, guided

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Go-Karting in Port Orange, FL

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A tour of the old Go-Kart City arcade in Port Orange — the games room of the park as it stood before the Tiki Adventure Zone rebuild.

C.J. at Go Kart City

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Go-karts running Go-Kart City in the rain — wet-track laps at the old Port Orange park, filmed for the fun of the slide.

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