Berkeley (Bayville): Blackbeard’s Cave has had a rough couple of years financially, failing equipment, insanely high maintenance costs, taxes, and rent on the portion of the park that is leased.
This year, partially thanks to coronavirus but certainly combined with other reasons, we have made a difficult decision to discontinue the park on the leased land to save costs, and be able to revive Blackbeards on a smaller, more manageable section of our land.
Don’t worry, this isn’t goodbye, it’s just hello next year to a smaller park.
Blackbeard’s will be selling parts, equipment and trailers on the leased property by appointment only starting September 20th. We will not give tours to people unless you have a confirmed appointment.
Please remember this is private land and trespassers are not welcome and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. This is for safety reasons.
Please message us to make your appointments between September 20 and September 30 for a tour of what’s available for sale.
Dark Carnival is opening a haunted open air walkthrough in our creepy kiddie park on Oct 2. Details to follow.
That place sucks anyway
Mike Bagarello sad but once upon a time it was amazing. They have not put a penny into maintenance in 25 years ????
Kim Macaluso and it shows. I worked a couple summers there and you can tell they never really cared
Kim Macaluso I don’t know about 25 yrs lol we use to take TJ there all the time when he was little.. He is 20 now.. Everything worked and was in decent condition. Far from new but it was nice and he had a blast!
Cathy Amoia Scuderi yeah after I said that I started thinking. More like 20. No matter how long it’s extremely sad. We had Blackbeard’s and the best bowling alley and both are gone. Amazing memories at both.
Kim Macaluso when was that bowling alley the best? I remember going there like 25 years ago andddd it definitely was not
Toni-Marie Mack lol guess you needed better company ????
Mike Bagarello yeah I have to agree.
Mike Bagarello yeah since it’s been closed for many years… so no one can play putt putt
Oh no! This is so sad…My son grew up there. We always took him to the rides. We had many birthday parties there as well.. Another childhood memory gone.. ????
Tara Bosco
Place has been a dump for many years now.
Jenna Elizabeth I agree
It’s been going downhill for years
This place was the shit when I was a kid cost a lot but my friends had a good time at my birthday and stuff Rose Roseman
I lived in North Jersey my whole life and went here once when I was 11. That was 18 years ago. I never met anyone where I live that’s heard of this place and many have shore houses in the area.
Alex Fagioli Everybody knows Where it is it’s on route 9 In Bayville
Alex I used to play golf there very summer!
Megan Maitner Pellitteri Carin Volpe- Petrakian John Volpe
WOW!
F**k this place !!
Time to close for good. They never kept it up. It’s so old and decrepit time to close
I thought this place closed years ago? Lolololol
Honestly this is my childhood…it was better when i was younger..but that doesnt mean you cant still have fun, i took my niece there a year or two ago && we both had a blast. If youre not with high maintenance company and just want to have a good time this is the spot
Christine Godlewski new owners as of last summer I believe. Told us only mini golf because most of the rides failed inspections they had done ????
It’s a old timey place that tried to hold on, everyone locally has visited there at some point in their life, give some credit where credit is do, thanks for the memories and good luck with future plans…
New Younger owners! Give them some credit! They got to old beat up cb Huntington up and going and clean !
Erik Schulwitz Andrew Papalia read the last part of the article. ???? ????
Back in the day it was a really fun place to go!! Always packed and people having good time!
It was a much better place when my dad was the program director there. But I don’t think that they should have had sold it to somebody else cuz like it just went totally downhill after Ned sold it. But I used to love working there that was my first job I would work there with my sister Elizabeth Vogel….. We had good memories there.
Evei Vogel uggh , Ned was great ! I couldn’t remember his name . Thanks
I used to work there too and Ned was a great guy!
Thanks Murphy!
Justin A Skorochod – the virus can’t honestly be blamed for this; the park was in disrepair for years. They opened the mini golf this year and it was unplayable. Sections were missing, and lots of it was held together with spray foam. It was a mess.
Justin A Skorochod this one isn’t his fault. This place has been a disaster for the last few years even before the Rona took over the world.
this place has been a dump before Chris Christie.
Maybe if they kept up with upkeep they wouldn’t be in bad shape. Took my kids there a few years ago and it looks like the same water in the mini golf area as when I was a kid. It’s gross
It declined after CB Huntington’s left..
Gail Siciliano ????
Place is trash shut it down.
Patrick Schuler yeah man I once fell off the slide and kids threw their ice cream cones at me shut it down lol
Dominick Trematerra
Sad news
Unless they do a full makeover, he would be better shutting it down and selling the land
Wow you people really support your local businesses nothing but negative comments
I thought they sold the park and resturant to hasidic
Can I cash in my tickets ?
I turned the power back on there about a month ago those rides are in major disarray,beyond repair in my opinion…they need to get rid of that stuff and start a new…the last guy who rented the park just left and the equipment went to shit…
Doug i shut off the office in the bery back right side just before the virus hit LOL
What part is the leased part?
Max Orozco Hahaha. You’re gonna laugh when you hear this. It is almost ALL leased property. The bumper boats and kiddie park are all that is owned.
Kathleen Donovan Hansen tell Mr. Hansen we need a trip “Pirate Pete’s” soon ????
Jamie Maitner lol! I drove by there a few weeks ago and thought of that!
Kim Oriole read the last sentence of this article. The kids might enjoy this. ♥️
Thank the fuck about time, when I was younger attending my cousins party, I was on the one of the Go-Karts that had a malfunction and ended up hitting something I wasn’t suppose to on the track. Resulting in a broken arm and teeth we should have sued when we could. Although I was young and had no say. Karma caught up. ????
Mozel tof