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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/ August 16, 2026
Cyclón is the slide that put Aqualandia back on the record boards: a 36-meter (118 ft) tower drop feeding a 200-meter raft run that ends inside a 20-meter-wide funnel. The Benidorm park added it in 2019, and it ranks #21 on our list of the
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/ August 16, 2026
When Meryal Waterpark opened in Lusail, Qatar in 2023, it didn’t just edge past the world water slide record — it demolished it. Vertigo launches from the top of the park’s Icon Tower at 250 ft 4 in (76.3 m), making it the tallest water
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/ August 16, 2026
Summit Plummet is the most famous water slide in America: a 120-foot free-fall body slide styled as a ski jump, dropping off the top of Mount Gushmore at Disney’s Blizzard Beach in Orlando. When it opened with the park on April 1, 1995, it was
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/ August 16, 2026
Deep Water Dive is the slide that made Kentucky Kingdom’s 2014 comeback impossible to ignore: a 121-foot ProSlide drop body slide where the floor quite literally disappears from under you. It ranks #19 on our list of the tallest water slides in the world. Part
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/ August 16, 2026
Scary Falls is the slide Caribe Bay saves for its bravest guests: a 38-meter (124.7 ft) plunge taken in complete darkness. The Italian park in Jesolo, on the Adriatic coast near Venice, bills it simply — launch yourself into the darkness and find out what
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the tallest water slides in the world that are actually operating as of August 2026 — body, mat, and tube slides all count, ranked by published slide height and verified ride-by-ride. Slides that no longer exist don’t make the cut, no matter
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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 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 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
A 25-meter glass pyramid still stands on the beachfront at Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, its slides and pools empty behind cracked glazing. That’s what’s left of Aqualud, the water park that drew families to France’s Channel coast for over three decades before shutting for good in 2019.
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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
Wet ‘n Wild Emerald Pointe has been the go-to water park for the Greensboro area since it first opened in 1984, and after four decades of name changes, new slides, and new owners, it’s still packing families into its five pools and roughly 40 acres
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