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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 10, 2026
Myrtle Waves opened on June 1, 1985, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and has run every summer season since, earning its reputation as the largest water park in the Myrtle Beach area and in the entire state. Owned by Lazarus Entertainment Group, the same company
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/ July 10, 2026
Emerald Pointe Water Park, known today as Wet ‘n Wild Emerald Pointe, has been a fixture of Greensboro, North Carolina since it first opened in 1984 following a preview run in September 1983. The park began life under the name Aqua Gardens, briefly operated as
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/ July 9, 2026
Sahara Sam’s Oasis opened in West Berlin, New Jersey, on March 21, 2009, as a roughly $23 million, 58,000-square-foot facility that was promoted at the time as one of the first stand-alone indoor water parks in the continental United States. Built largely of concrete beneath
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/ July 8, 2026
Camelbeach Mountain Waterpark opened in 1998 in Tannersville, Pennsylvania, as the summer counterpart to Camelback Mountain Resort’s winter ski operations. Built into the base of the Pocono Mountains, the park spans roughly 30 acres and has grown into one of the largest outdoor waterparks in
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/ July 7, 2026
Zoombezi Bay is a 22.7-acre water park owned and operated by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, Ohio, just north of Columbus. It opened to the public on May 26, 2008, on the site of the former Wyandot Lake Adventure Park, which the zoo
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/ July 7, 2026
Water Country USA is a water park located in York County, Virginia, just outside Williamsburg. Opened on June 20, 1984, it bills itself as “Virginia’s Largest Family Water Park” and is owned by United Parks & Resorts, the same company behind neighboring Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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/ July 6, 2026
Splish Splash is a 96-acre water park in Calverton, New York, on Long Island. Founded by Tony Gentile and Chip Cleary, it opened to the public in May 1991 and has grown into the largest water park in the New York tri-state area, drawing crowds
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/ July 6, 2026
White Water Bay was a water park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that first opened its gates on May 23, 1981 under the name White Water. The park changed hands in 1991 when Premier Parks acquired it and rebranded it as White Water Bay, the name
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/ July 5, 2026
Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark opened in January 2018 in Grand Prairie, Texas, as a publicly owned attraction built by the City of Grand Prairie and operated by a private management company as part of the EpicCentral development. At about 80,000 square feet, it is one
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/ July 5, 2026
Aquatica San Antonio is an 18-acre water park located next to SeaWorld San Antonio in Texas, operated by United Parks & Resorts. It opened on May 19, 2012, on the site of the former Lost Lagoon water park, which closed on Labor Day weekend 2011
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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 and
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/ July 3, 2026
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles is a separately gated water park in Valencia, California, sitting right next to Six Flags Magic Mountain. It opened on June 16, 1995, as the original Hurricane Harbor location, a brand that Six Flags later expanded to other cities
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/ July 3, 2026
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Arlington is North Texas’s biggest water park, sprawled across 47 acres directly opposite Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington’s entertainment district. It’s home to a roughly one-million-gallon wave pool, a lineup of thrill slides that drop riders six stories, and a
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/ July 2, 2026
For 35 summers, Breakers Water Park was the place Tucson-area families went to beat the desert heat, floating in a wave pool the size of a small lake and racing down slides that kept getting taller and faster. Then, almost overnight in early 2018, it
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/ July 2, 2026
Wildwater Kingdom was a water park in Aurora and Bainbridge Township, Ohio, that opened on June 17, 2005, as the aquatic half of the Cedar Fair-owned Geauga Lake resort. It rose on the site once occupied by SeaWorld Ohio and later the marine-life section of
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/ July 1, 2026
Soak City is the 20-acre water park located at the back of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, and admission is included with a regular park ticket. It first opened in 1992 as Hurricane Reef, was expanded and renamed WaterWorks in 1999, and took on its
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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 admission required. With 36 water slides, two wave pools, a lazy river, a dual-racing water coaster, and
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