Big Air Bolingbrook Opens: 25,000 Sq Ft, 15 Attractions
On Saturday, October 24, 2026, Big Air Bolingbrook opened at 161 N. Weber Road in Bolingbrook, Illinois, a suburb roughly 30 miles southwest of Chicago. It is the first Big Air location in Illinois and the thirteenth state in the franchise’s published footprint.
The company announced the opening in a press release dated October 19, 2026, and its own park pages now carry live ticket prices, membership plans and an attraction list. Those pages are the most useful part of the record, because they turn a routine opening announcement into a worked example of how a franchise prices time and packs a box.
Three numbers anchor this article. The park covers 25,000 square feet (2,323 m²) of entertainment space according to the release, and 26,000 square feet (2,415 m²) according to the park’s own information page; both figures appear below. The attraction list names 15 or more distinct attractions. And the walk-in ladder runs from $25 for 90 minutes to $32 for an all-day pass.
None of these numbers is remarkable on its own. Read together, they describe how a founder-led franchise enters a new state: what it installs on the floor, how it sells the second hour, and what it discounts to build a member base in week one.
One caveat before the numbers. Big Air did not disclose the investment in the Bolingbrook build-out, the number of employees hired, or any attendance projection. Every figure below comes from the company’s own pages, the press release and local reporting, and every derived calculation is labelled as such.
1. What the Record Shows
Start with the verifiable facts, each tied to its source. Where two sources disagree, both are shown rather than averaged.
| Item | Published figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Grand opening | October 24, 2026, doors at 10 a.m. | Press release, October 19, 2026 |
| Address | 161 N. Weber Road, Bolingbrook, IL 60490 | Official park pages |
| Size | “more than 25,000 sq ft” (release) vs “26,000 sq ft” (park info page) | Release; official hours page |
| Attractions | “over 15”, with 16 named across release and pages | Release; official attractions page |
| Walk-in passes | $25 / 90 min; $28 / 2 hr; $32 / all day | Official admission page |
| Infant ticket | $12, age 2 and under, with a paying adult | Official admission page |
| Grip socks | $4.00, brand socks required | Official admission page |
| Memberships | $25 to $300 by tier, founding discounts active | Official admission page |
| Party capacity | Up to 300 guests for a private buyout | Press release |
| Owners | Waqar Ali Khan, founder; Mustajab Khan, co-founder | Release; Patch Bolingbrook |
| Footprint | Illinois becomes the 13th state; founded 2012; over 500,000 sq ft systemwide | Press release |
The size discrepancy deserves a note rather than a cleanup. The press release says “more than 25,000 square feet”; the park’s own information page says the park spans 26,000 square feet. A marketing release rounds down and a fact sheet rounds to the measured figure, so both can be true. This article uses 26,000 square feet for density arithmetic because it is the operator’s own stated figure for the building, and flags every use of it as derived.
2. Attraction Density: 16 Named Slots in a 26,000 Sq Ft Box
The press release lists featured attractions and says “over 15”. The official attractions page and the earlier local reporting name more. Taking 15 as the floor and 26,000 square feet as the box:
Derived: 26,000 sq ft ÷ 15 attractions ≈ 1,733 sq ft of total building area per attraction slot. On the release figure it is 25,000 ÷ 15 ≈ 1,667 sq ft.
That quotient is a planning heuristic, not a layout promise. The building also holds four private party rooms, the Big Eats cafe, a parents lounge, seating and circulation, so the playable share per attraction is lower than the average suggests. Operators budgeting a similar box should treat one attraction slot per roughly 1,700 square feet of total area as a starting point for the count conversation with an equipment supplier, then let the layout push the number around. For how a comparable box actually splits its floor, see the 22,000 sq ft layout breakdown.
| Attraction | What it is | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Main Court | Interconnected open-jump trampoline matrix | Core jumping |
| Airtrack Sports Court | Spring-floor court for ball games and tumbling | Core jumping |
| Extreme Dodgeball | Side-by-side trampoline dodgeball courts | Core jumping |
| Battlebeam | Jousting balance beams over a foam pit | Competitive |
| Rock Climbing Wall | Harnessed climbing | Physical challenge |
| The Gauntlet | Ninja ropes and obstacle course | Physical challenge |
| Extreme Aerial Course | Harness-free enclosed course about 14 ft up | Physical challenge |
| Aero Tower | Vertical climb-and-launch attraction | Physical challenge |
| Extreme Double Zipline | Side-by-side racing zip line | Thrill |
| Zip Line | Single-rider zip line | Thrill |
| Visi Jump | Interactive jumping with visual game feedback | Interactive |
| High 9 Reaction Wall | Reflex game with lighted targets on pods | Interactive |
| Valo Arena | Mixed-play motion gaming space | Interactive |
| Lil Air | Age-appropriate toddler jumping court | Toddler |
| Lil Ninja | Scaled-down obstacle course for young guests | Toddler |
| Epic Lil Slide | Small slide for the youngest visitors | Toddler |
Three of the sixteen named attractions carry electronic scoring or projection: Visi Jump, the High 9 Reaction Wall and Valo Arena. That is roughly one interactive slot for every five named attractions, which matches the pattern this site tracked in interactive attractions becoming the baseline rather than the premium add-on. The harness-free design of the 14-foot aerial course is the other quiet decision: it removes the harness-fitting bottleneck that slows throughput on elevated courses, trading perceived thrill for session speed.
Toddler capacity is three named attractions plus dedicated Toddler Time programming on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., included in premium memberships. A park that sells toddler sessions is buying weekday-morning traffic it would otherwise never see, a second market this site examined through the Sky Zone Bronx weekday-morning case.
3. The Ticket Ladder and What Marginal Pricing Shows
Big Air Bolingbrook sells three walk-in passes. The interesting part is not the entry price; it is what each step up costs.
| Pass | Price | Minutes | Price per minute | Cost of the next step |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 Minute Pass | $25 | 90 | $0.278 | +$3.00 for the 2-hour pass |
| 2 Hour Pass | $28 | 120 | $0.233 | +$4.00 for the all-day pass |
| All Day Pass | $32 | Open hours that day | About $0.076 across a 7-hour Saturday | Ends the ladder |
Two structural choices stand out. First, the step from 90 to 120 minutes costs $3, so the extra half hour is priced at 12% of the entry pass. Second, the all-day pass costs only 28% more than the 90-minute pass. Once a guest has been inside for 150 minutes, the all-day upgrade has already paid for itself, so the ladder nudges long dwell times rather than capping them. That works only if food, beverage and party spend rise with dwell time, which is the same trade-off behind Oxygen’s session design in the £30 half-term pass breakdown.
Comparison makes the positioning clearer. Using the operators’ own published walk-in prices, converted at GBP/USD 1.34 where needed:
| Park | Entry pass | Price per minute | Marginal price per extra 30 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Air Bolingbrook | $25 / 90 min | $0.278 | $3.00 (90 to 120 min) |
| Altitude Trampoline Park Arlington | $19.99 / 90 min | $0.222 | $5.00 (90 to 120 min) |
| Oxygen Activeplay Crawley | £15.95 / 60 min ≈ $21.38 | $0.356 | £4.50 ≈ $6.03 (60 to 90 min) |
Big Air opens at the highest per-minute entry rate of the three and then sells additional time at the lowest marginal rate. Altitude does the opposite: a cheaper door price and a steeper time ladder. Neither approach is wrong; they answer the same question differently, namely when to stop charging for the clock and start monetising the visit itself. The fit-out side of Altitude Arlington is documented in its $1.2M filing breakdown, which makes a useful contrast on what each park chose to disclose.
4. The Founding-Member Offer and the Break-Even
The admission page lists four membership tiers, each with a grand-opening “founding member” rate and the $30 sign-up fee waived.
| Tier | List price | Founding rate | Headline inclusions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $25 per month | $25, $30 fee waived | Standard jump access |
| Premium Monthly | $30 per month | $30, $30 fee waived | 2 hr daily, Cosmic Nights, 2 buddy passes, 10% off food and parties |
| Annual | $250 per year | $200 | Standard jump access for a year |
| Premium Annual | $300 per year | $250 | 2 hr daily, unlimited Cosmic Nights, Toddler Time included, 2 buddy passes a month, 20% off food and parties, free Air Socks |
Run the break-even on the Premium Annual founding rate against the $28 two-hour walk-in:
Derived: $250 ÷ $28 ≈ 8.9, so about 9 two-hour visits a year cover the membership. At the $300 list rate it is $300 ÷ $28 ≈ 10.7, or 11 visits. A member who visits twice a month pays an effective $10.42 per two-hour visit at the founding rate, 63% below the walk-in price.
The buddy passes change the arithmetic in a way the price table does not show. Two a month is 24 guest admissions a year; valued at the $25 list price of a 90-minute pass, that is $600 of list-price value attached to a $250 membership. This holds only if each buddy would otherwise have bought a full walk-in ticket, and the operator is betting that the buddy converts into a second paying member or a party booking. It is a customer-acquisition cost dressed as a perk.
The marketing claim on the page, “jump for under $1 a day”, checks out arithmetically: $200 ÷ 365 ≈ $0.55 and $250 ÷ 365 ≈ $0.68. The honest reading is that the claim is true for everyone and economical for no one below roughly 9 visits a year. That gap between the advertised unit price and the break-even visit count is the core of the membership pricing analysis on this site, and Bolingbrook is a textbook opening-week version of it.
One more observation. The founding discounts are real but shallow: $50 off the annual tiers, which is 17% to 20%, plus a $30 fee waiver. Operators sometimes fear discounting a brand-new park; Big Air instead treats the founding rate as a marketing line item for week one, with no published end date on the special.
5. Positioning: a Halal Kitchen, Karaoke Party Rooms and a Parents Lounge
The most distinctive choices at Bolingbrook cost almost nothing in equipment terms. Big Eats runs an all-halal, cafe-style menu. There are four private party rooms, each with karaoke. And parents get a dedicated lounge with a television wall, described in the park’s own event listing as nearly 10 feet wide and 8 feet tall.
Bolingbrook is one of the more diverse suburbs in the Chicago metropolitan area. A fully halal kitchen removes a real friction point for a large share of local families and for group bookings, and it lets one kitchen serve school groups, sports teams and corporate events that a split menu would complicate. The karaoke party rooms aim the four-room party block at teen and adult celebrations, not just children’s birthdays, which widens the bookable calendar into weekend evenings that a children’s party model leaves empty.
Party capacity runs to 300 guests for a private buyout. A single buyout of that size is, in revenue terms, closer to a corporate event than a birthday, and the same four rooms that host it sit idle on weekday mornings. The point for operators is that catering rules and room programming are positioning decisions with equipment-level consequences, and they are made long before opening day. Surface and finish choices that survive a food-service operation belong in the same conversation as equipment materials and build quality.
6. The Opening Slipped by About Two Months
Patch Bolingbrook reported in August that the park planned to open in late August or early September. It opened on October 24. That is roughly a seven-week slip from the original window, and it is worth reading honestly because fit-out delay is the industry’s most common cost surprise.
The visible costs of a slip are rent during the fit-out and a compressed pre-opening marketing window. An illustration, clearly labelled as such because Bolingbrook’s rent is not public: at the national average US retail rent of $24.79 per square foot per year (CBRE, Q2 2026), a 26,000 square foot box carries about $644,500 a year, or roughly $1,766 a day. Two additional months of fit-out is therefore about $106,000 of rent paid before the first ticket is sold. The full mechanics of that calculation are in the rent-per-square-foot analysis.
The less visible cost sits in the membership book. Founding rates are an opening-window product: every week a park is not trading is a week it cannot convert early visitors into annual members at the discounted rate, and annual members are the annuity that carries a park through its first soft season. A delay does not just postpone revenue; it shortens the highest-conversion sales period the park will ever have.
None of this says Big Air mishandled Bolingbrook. Slips of this size are normal, and the park opened with its full attraction list and a live booking system. The lesson is for the planner reading this: your construction contract, your equipment delivery schedule and your pre-sale campaign should share one calendar, because the founding-member window cannot be extended after the fact.
7. What the Record Does Not Show
The disclosure gap is as instructive as the disclosures. Big Air has not published the Bolingbrook investment figure, the number of employees hired, any attendance projection, the rent, or whether the site was a new build or a conversion. It also did not announce additional Illinois locations alongside the opening.
For Texas projects, this site could fall back on the state’s public construction filing database, which is how the $1.2 million declared fit-out for Altitude Arlington became public. Illinois has no equivalent public record this article can cite, so a per-square-foot capex figure for Bolingbrook cannot be computed from public data. We are not going to invent one. The honest answer is that no public number exists, and any figure you see elsewhere for this specific park is an estimate without a filing behind it.
The same boundary applies to performance claims. The press release says the brand operates more than 500,000 square feet of entertainment space across its states, but it does not publish park-level revenue or visit counts, so systemwide averages cannot be checked the way the Airtopia McAlester disclosures could be. Where a park publishes, the numbers get interesting; where it does not, the plan pages and the price ladder are the record.
8. Summary: What an Operator Should Take from Bolingbrook
Five decision rules fall out of this opening, all of them transferable to a park that is still on the drawing board:
1. Count attractions as budget units. Sixteen named slots in a 26,000 square foot building is one attraction per roughly 1,625 square feet of total area, party rooms and cafe included. Use that ratio to sanity-check an equipment quotation before you negotiate line by line, and match it against the trampoline and attraction catalogue you are pricing from.
2. Price the second hour, not the first. A $3 step from 90 to 120 minutes makes the longer pass the default choice. The entry price wins the search result; the marginal price wins the session length.
3. Treat all-day pricing as a membership step. At $4 above the two-hour pass, the all-day option exists to convert heavy users before they ever hit a paywall, and it sets the reference point your membership break-even is measured against.
4. Budget the founding discount as a marketing cost. Seventeen to 20 percent off the annual tiers plus a waived sign-up fee is a cheap price for a founding member base, but only if you open on schedule; the window cannot be recovered after a slip.
5. Let catering and rooms carry positioning. An all-halal kitchen, karaoke party rooms and a parents lounge widened Bolingbrook’s audience more per dollar than any additional attraction would have. The equipment gets families through the door once; the amenity mix decides whether the second visit happens.
If you are planning a park in the 20,000 to 30,000 square foot range and want the attraction count, zone split and price ladder set out as a budget before you commit, start with the design-to-delivery process and the compliance expectations in safety standards and certification.
FAQ
How much does it cost to open a Big Air trampoline park?
Big Air has not published a franchise investment range for its parks, and the company did not disclose the investment in the Bolingbrook build-out. For orientation, published Item 7 ranges from comparable US trampoline park franchisors run from about $1.7 million to $5.4 million, with multi-attraction formats above that; the comparison is set out in this site’s franchise cost breakdown. Treat any Big Air-specific figure you see elsewhere as an estimate without a filing behind it.
What are the ticket prices at Big Air Bolingbrook?
The official admission page lists a 90 Minute Pass at $25, a 2 Hour Pass at $28 and an All Day Pass at $32. Children aged 2 and under need a $12 infant ticket with a paying adult, and brand grip socks are required at $4.00. Grand-opening membership rates run from $25 per month to $250 for the Premium Annual plan.
How many attractions fit in a 25,000 sq ft trampoline park?
Big Air Bolingbrook names 16 attractions across the press release and its own pages in a 26,000 square foot building, which works out to roughly 1,625 square feet of total building area per attraction slot. The playable share per attraction is lower once party rooms, cafe, lounge and circulation are subtracted, so use the ratio as a planning starting point rather than a layout rule.
Is a trampoline park annual membership worth it?
Divide the membership price by your local two-hour walk-in price. At Bolingbrook’s founding rate that is $250 ÷ $28, so about 9 visits a year to break even, and 11 visits at the $300 list rate. A member visiting twice a month pays an effective $10.42 per visit at the founding rate. Below the break-even count, walk-in passes are cheaper; above it, the membership wins and the operator carries the capacity cost.
What is a Valo Arena and why are interactive attractions spreading?
A Valo Arena is a motion-tracking mixed-play space where guests play projected games with whole-body movement, no headset or controller. At Bolingbrook it is one of three electronic attractions out of 16 named, alongside the Visi Jump court and the High 9 Reaction Wall. The pattern across 2026 openings is that one or two interactive slots are now baseline equipment in a multi-attraction box, not a premium novelty.
Sources
- Big Air USA via EIN Presswire (republished by citybiz), “Big Air USA to Open First Illinois Indoor Adventure Park in Bolingbrook on October 24”, October 19, 2026 — citybiz.co
- Big Air USA, official park information page, Bolingbrook (26,000 sq ft, amenities), accessed October 26, 2026 — bigairusa.com
- Big Air USA, official admission and membership page, Bolingbrook (ticket ladder, founding rates), accessed October 26, 2026 — bigairusa.com
- Big Air USA, official attractions page, Bolingbrook, accessed October 26, 2026 — bigairusa.com
- Patch Bolingbrook, “Trampoline Park Opening First Illinois Location” (planned late August or early September opening, halal menu, party rooms, hours), August 2026 — patch.com
- Altitude Trampoline Park, Arlington park pages (walk-in and membership prices used for comparison), accessed October 2026 — altitudetrampolinepark.com
- Oxygen Activeplay, Crawley park page (60, 90 and 120-minute prices used for comparison), accessed October 2026 — oxygenactiveplay.co.uk
- CBRE, “U.S. Retail Figures Q2 2026” (national average retail rent $24.79 per sq ft per year, used in the labelled delay illustration), July 29, 2026 — cbre.com