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 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 5, 2026
Aquatica San Antonio is the tropical-themed water park next door to SeaWorld San Antonio, home to the tallest drop slide in Texas and the only underwater stingray raft ride in the world. It’s a separate, standalone attraction with its own gates, ticket prices, and operating
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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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/ June 30, 2026
If you’ve been searching for “Soak City” at Cedar Point and coming up confused, here’s the short version: it’s still there, it’s just wearing a new name. The water park that opened on Lake Erie’s shoreline in 1988 is now Cedar Point Shores, and it’s
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/ June 29, 2026
Raging Waters Sacramento once packed 25 water attractions onto 20 acres of the Cal Expo fairgrounds, but the gates have been locked since November 2022 — and the plan to bring it back has now fallen apart too. If you’re trying to figure out whether
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/ June 29, 2026
Raging Waters Los Angeles in San Dimas has been Southern California’s go-to summer soak for over four decades, and the basics — when it’s open, what a ticket costs, and which slides are worth the wait — change enough from year to year that it’s
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/ June 28, 2026
Waterworld California was the beloved name of the Bay Area’s largest water park in Concord, California, for roughly a decade before Six Flags rebranded it. If you grew up riding Cliffhanger or floating the lazy river in the 2000s and 2010s, you’re probably wondering what
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/ June 28, 2026
Wild Waters was a beloved 6-acre water park in Silver Springs, Florida, opening on April 28, 1978. Built by ABC Television as a sister attraction to the adjacent Silver Springs Nature Theme Park, it ranked among the first parks in the American South to use
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/ June 27, 2026
Oceans of Fun is a tropically themed water park in Kansas City, Missouri, that opened on May 22, 1982, as a celebration of the adjacent Worlds of Fun amusement park’s tenth anniversary. Spanning more than 60 acres, it was the largest water park in Missouri
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/ June 27, 2026
Dollywood’s Splash Country opened in May 2001 in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, as an expansion of the Dollywood resort co-owned by entertainer Dolly Parton and Herschend Family Entertainment. Built on 35 acres adjacent to the main Dollywood theme park, it was named Best New Water Park
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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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/ June 25, 2026
Noah’s Ark Waterpark in Lake Delton, Wisconsin — at the heart of the Wisconsin Dells resort corridor — has carried the title of America’s Largest Outdoor Waterpark since 1987, when the opening of The Wave gave the park enough scale to claim that distinction. Spreading
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/ June 24, 2026
Adventure Island Tampa Bay packs a 17,000-square-foot wave pool, a world-record dueling slide, and family attractions across 30 acres of tropical landscaping directly across from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — making it the largest dedicated water park in the Tampa Bay area and one of
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