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 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 first opened its gates on May 23, 1981, in Oklahoma City, and the water park has been a summer fixture there ever since, even though it now runs under a different name and different owners. If you’re trying to plan an actual
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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, parking,
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/ July 3, 2026
Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles is the water park that started it all — the original Hurricane Harbor, opened in Valencia in 1995 and later copied at Six Flags properties across the country. Sitting on 22 acres right next to Six Flags Magic Mountain,
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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 tucked into the back of Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, and it’s one of the most overlooked reasons to visit the park — admission is included with a regular Kings Dominion ticket, so there’s no separate water park
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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 water park admission required. With 36 water slides, two wave pools, a lazy river, a dual-racing water
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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 name Bay Area families knew this Concord water park by for roughly a decade, and if you’re searching for it today, the short answer is reassuring: the park never closed. It’s still running every summer, at the same address, just under
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