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/ August 23, 2026
Newport Aquarium sits inside the Newport on the Levee entertainment complex in Newport, Kentucky, directly across the Ohio River from downtown Cincinnati, and it’s one of the region’s top family attractions. Visitors walk beneath sharks, rays, and other marine life through a network of acrylic
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/ July 25, 2026
Zoo Miami is Florida’s largest zoo, spread across roughly 750 acres in South Miami-Dade County. Its roots trace back to 1948, when a small collection of animals from a stranded road show — three monkeys, a goat, and two black bears — was housed at
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/ July 23, 2026
The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden traces its roots back to 1902, when a donated white-tailed deer at Wheeler Park sparked what became the first zoo in the American Southwest. After a devastating 1923 flood destroyed much of the original Wheeler Park collection, the
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/ July 22, 2026
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium traces its roots to 1894, when it opened as the small Riverview Park Zoo. It was renamed in 1963 after a major gift from businessman Henry Doorly, and has since grown into one of the most acclaimed zoological parks
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/ July 22, 2026
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium sits on 202 acres inside Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri, and has welcomed visitors since it first opened on December 13, 1909. What began as a single building housing the zoo’s entire animal collection for $32,000 has grown
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/ July 20, 2026
San Francisco Zoo & Gardens sits in the city’s southwestern corner, tucked between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway. Founded by philanthropist Herbert Fleishhacker in 1929 and built out through the 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project, the zoo was
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/ July 15, 2026
The Oregon Zoo sits in Portland’s Washington Park, just two miles southwest of downtown, and holds the distinction of being the oldest zoo west of the Mississippi River, tracing its roots back to 1888. Owned and operated by the regional government Metro since 1976, the
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/ July 12, 2026
Water Country opened on June 20, 1984, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and has grown into New England’s largest water park. Spread across roughly 26 acres just off Interstate 95, the park draws families from across the Seacoast region and beyond each summer with a lineup
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/ July 12, 2026
Aqua Mundo is the subtropical, glass-domed water park included with every stay at Center Parcs Les Trois Forêts, a 435-hectare holiday domain tucked into the pine forests of Hattigny in France’s Moselle department. Walk in from the changing rooms and the outside world disappears: roughly
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/ July 11, 2026
Darien Lake is a large amusement park and resort in Darien Center, New York, roughly midway between Buffalo and Rochester and about 45 minutes from Niagara Falls. The park opened in May 1981 as Darien Lake Fun Country on a sprawling property that today covers
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/ July 11, 2026
Lagoon Amusement Park sits in Farmington, Utah, about 18 miles north of Salt Lake City, and traces its roots back to a lakeside resort called Lake Park that opened in 1886. When the Great Salt Lake receded and stranded the original site, Simon Bamberger moved
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/ July 11, 2026
Ocean Breeze Waterpark sits just two miles south of the Virginia Beach oceanfront, and it holds a title no other local attraction can claim: the only full-scale water park in the Hampton Roads region. What started in 1974 as a small slide operation called Jungle
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/ July 11, 2026
Wild Water Adventure Park sits on 52 acres in Clovis, California, just outside Fresno, where the Siggers family has run a summer water playground since the property first opened for recreation in 1974 as Serena Vista Lakes, a tranquil fishing and camping spot. Greg Siggers
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/ July 5, 2026
Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark just landed at No. 2 in USA Today’s 2026 10Best Readers’ Choice ranking of the nation’s indoor water parks, its third straight year in the top three. A retractable roof lets the Grand Prairie, Texas attraction run wide open on hot
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/ July 4, 2026
If you’re searching for the Six Flags water park in New Jersey, you’re looking for Six Flags Hurricane Harbor New Jersey, a 22-acre water park in Jackson Township that sits right next door to Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags Wild Safari. It’s the
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/ July 4, 2026
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Chicago is a 20-acre water park in Gurnee, Illinois, sitting right next to Six Flags Great America, with 25 water slides, two pools, and an 86-foot water coaster as its centerpiece. Whether you’re checking hours before a trip, comparing ticket, parking,
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/ July 1, 2026
Soak City is the 20-acre water park tucked into the back of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, and it’s one of the most overlooked reasons to visit the park — admission is included with a regular Kings Dominion ticket, so there’s no separate water park
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/ June 30, 2026
Soak City is the 35-acre water park inside Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, and it’s included free with every Kings Island ticket and season pass — no separate water park admission required. With 36 water slides, two wave pools, a lazy river, a dual-racing water
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/ June 30, 2026
Six Flags Great Adventure opened on July 1, 1974, in Jackson Township, New Jersey, conceived by restaurateur and showman Warner LeRoy as a sprawling entertainment complex he called Great Adventure. LeRoy—grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Harry Warner—envisioned seven distinct parks on a single property. Six
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/ June 26, 2026
Kalahari Resorts Wisconsin Dells pairs a 125,000-square-foot indoor water park with African-themed decor, a seasonal outdoor park, and a nearly 800-room resort — making it one of the anchor reasons Wisconsin Dells calls itself the Waterpark Capital of the World. It opened May 4, 2000,
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