Paradise Lakes Resort style event weekend

Welcome to the Paradise Lakes Annual Jerky-Off

A full adults-only getaway built around smoky competition, poolside social energy, resort dining, dancing, room packages, and a cheeky annual tradition that feels like it naturally belongs inside the Paradise Lakes world.

Your Complete Jerky-Off Experience

The live Paradise Lakes site leans on a dark luxury resort rhythm, a giant welcome hero, and a sequence of image-led modules. This rebuild follows that same cadence while keeping the Jerky-Off as the central draw.

Pool culture and resort flow

Your Complete Vacation Experience

Paradise Lakes Annual Jerky-Off is positioned as a whole-resort weekend, not a one-note food event. Guests check in, settle poolside, taste across jerky categories, mingle over cocktails, and move naturally from daytime competition into nightlife.

Like the Paradise Lakes home page, the pitch is broad hospitality first: pools, social energy, easy adult fun, and a signature reason to book the stay now instead of later.

Poolside rooms

Stay Just Steps from the Action

Hotel rooms sit only a few feet away from the pools and the social center, so Jerky-Off guests stay immersed in the atmosphere all weekend. A room package can bundle tasting access, welcome cocktails, and priority admission for Saturday awards and Club Reveal.

That mirrors Paradise Lakes’ own room-first conversion logic, where the stay itself is part of the draw.

Summer Hotel Promotion $115 Sunday-Thursday • $155 Friday & Saturday Special Jerky-Off pricing can stack tasting wristbands, couples bundles, and bounce-back booking offers.

Yes, We Have Some G-Rated Sports

The Paradise Lakes flow also sells activity variety. Jerky-Off weekend inherits that same pattern so guests have reasons to stay engaged between tasting blocks.

Water Volleyball

Poolside competition and laughter keep the crowd warm between judging rounds and tasting flights.

Pickleball

Fast, funny, and easy to join, perfect for guests mixing resort play with a food-focused weekend.

Dining & Brunch

Water’s Edge dinner service and a winners brunch turn the event into a full hospitality cycle.

There’s So Much Happening at Paradise Lakes Resort

The current Paradise Lakes site uses event density as a selling point. This weekend schedule mirrors that energy while centering the Jerky-Off.

Weekend event calendar

Jerky-Off Weekend Schedule

Friday: early check-in, welcome cocktails, Meet the Makers social hour, teaser tasting, and Club Reveal kickoff.

Saturday: contest intake, live judging, poolside tasting, sponsor booths, People’s Choice voting, awards, and the “Smoke, Spice & Paradise” headline night.

Sunday: winners brunch, recipe swap, casual resort hang, and bounce-back booking push.

Competition categories

Signature Awards

  • Best Beef Jerky
  • Best Turkey Jerky
  • Best Wild Game
  • Best Sweet Heat
  • Best Savory / Pepper
  • Rookie Maker Award
  • People’s Choice
  • Grand Champion

Why This Becomes a Must-Attend Event

OccupancyRoom packages convert the event into a stay, not just a ticket.
Food & BarTasting, flights, specials, and brunch stack onto normal operations.
BuzzThe Jerky-Off name is playful, memorable, and easy to share.
Brand FitThe structure now follows Paradise Lakes’ own hospitality cadence much more closely.