Dive into the best water parks around. ThrillZing covers the wildest slides, wave pools, lazy rivers, and must-know tips for every major water park — everything you need to plan the perfect splash day.
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/ July 12, 2026
NRH2O Family Water Park has been North Texas’s summer staple since 1995, when it opened as the first municipally owned water park in Texas and one of the first city-run water parks in the country. Nearly three decades later, the 17-acre park in North Richland
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/ July 12, 2026
Enchanted Forest Water Safari is a water and amusement park in Old Forge, New York, tucked into the Adirondack Mountains. It opened on July 7, 1956 as The Enchanted Forest of the Adirondacks, a storybook-themed attraction built on 35 acres of reclaimed swampland, and was
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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
Aquapark Istralandia opened on 21 June 2014 in the Brtonigla municipality of Istria County, Croatia, becoming the country’s first dedicated water park. Built roughly 5 km inland from the Adriatic coast between Novigrad and Nova Vas, the park quickly became a fixture of Istrian summer
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/ July 12, 2026
Aqua Mundo is the name Center Parcs gives to the subtropical, glass-domed water parks included with every stay at its European holiday villages. The concept dates back to 1980, when the very first covered water park of its kind opened at Center Parcs De Eemhof
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/ July 12, 2026
Aqualibi is an indoor water park in Wavre, Belgium, built alongside the Walibi Belgium amusement park and operated under the same Compagnie des Alpes ownership. Opened in 1987, it has grown into one of the country’s most visited water attractions, drawing families from Brussels and
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/ July 12, 2026
Aqualud was a beachfront water park in Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, on France’s Channel coast in the Pas-de-Calais department. Opened in 1985, it was one of France’s earliest water parks and the first built in the Hauts-de-France region, drawing families from across the region for more than
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/ July 12, 2026
Aquaboulevard opened in April 1989 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, inaugurated that May by then-mayor Jacques Chirac. Developed by Forest Hill group CEO Michel Corbière in partnership with the City of Paris, the project cost roughly 450 million francs, well over its original budget,
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/ July 12, 2026
Tropical Islands Resort sits inside the Aerium, a colossal former airship hangar in Krausnick, Brandenburg, about 50 kilometers south of Berlin. Built by CargoLifter AG and completed in November 2000, the hangar became the world’s largest free-standing hall without interior support pillars before CargoLifter’s 2002
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/ July 12, 2026
Galaxy Erding is the water slide complex at Therme Erding, a massive thermal spa in the Bavarian town of Erding, about 30 minutes northeast of Munich, Germany. The Galaxy section opened on March 31, 2007, adding a dedicated slide park to the thermal baths that
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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 has been Myrtle Beach’s largest water park since it threw open its gates on June 1, 1985, and heading into the 2026 season it’s still splashing away on Mr. Joe White Avenue, just off the Grand Strand. Four decades in, the park is
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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. Spanning roughly 40 acres just south of downtown, it packs in more
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/ July 9, 2026
Sahara Sam’s Oasis in West Berlin, New Jersey pairs a year-round indoor water park with a seasonal outdoor area, making it one of the few South Jersey attractions that works as a day trip in January and July alike. Whether you’re checking hours before a
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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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