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/ June 30, 2026
Soak City opened in 1988 as the water park companion to Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, offering a splashy counterpart to the roller-coaster thrills next door. Originally home to ten water slides, the park steadily expanded through the 1990s and 2000s, adding a wave pool,
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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 opened on May 4, 2000, as the vision of Wisconsin Dells natives Todd and Shari Nelson. Inspired by a family trip to southern Africa, Todd Nelson named the resort after the Kalahari Desert and designed every corner to immerse guests in
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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 has a 17,000-square-foot wave pool and family attractions spread across 30 acres of tropical surroundings — making it the largest dedicated water park in the Tampa Bay area and one of Florida’s most-visited aquatic destinations. Sitting at 10001 N. McKinley Drive
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/ June 24, 2026
Aquatica Orlando opened on March 1, 2008, as SeaWorld’s dedicated water park — a 59-acre Pacific-themed playground built for roughly $50 million adjacent to SeaWorld Orlando. The park attracted about 950,000 guests in its debut year alone, ranking as the fourth-most visited water park in
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/ June 23, 2026
Universal’s Volcano Bay opened on May 25, 2017, as Universal Orlando Resort’s dedicated water park, replacing the longtime Wet ‘n Wild as the resort’s primary aquatic destination. Built at an estimated cost of $600 million and spread across 27 operational acres, it was the first
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/ June 23, 2026
Disney’s Blizzard Beach is a water theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, that opened on April 1, 1995. Built around the playful premise of a failed Florida ski resort, the park features a sprawling alpine aesthetic complete with ski lifts,
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/ June 22, 2026
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon opened on June 1, 1989, at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, making it Disney’s second water park and today one of two operating alongside Blizzard Beach. Built around the playful legend of a catastrophic tropical storm that
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/ June 22, 2026
Schlitterbahn New Braunfels is the water park in New Braunfels, Texas that held the title of World’s Best Water Park for 26 consecutive years. Spanning more than 70 acres along the spring-fed Comal River — about 30 miles northeast of San Antonio — it opened
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/ June 20, 2026
Cedar Point Shores is the water park at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio — an 18-acre complex of speed slides, a giant wave pool, two lazy rivers, and family splash zones perched directly on the shore of Lake Erie. Operated by Six Flags, it consistently
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