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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/ 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 dueling slide featuring the world’s first head-to-head saucer element, and family attractions across 30 acres of tropical landscaping directly across the street from Busch Gardens Tampa Bay — making it the largest dedicated water park
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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 the rare water park where the theming is as memorable as the slides — a fictional Florida ski resort that melted into 60-plus acres of raft rides, a 120-foot free fall, and a lazy river with its own ice cave. It’s
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/ June 22, 2026
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon is the storm-wrecked tropical paradise at Walt Disney World where a shrimp boat sits marooned atop a volcano, a wave pool churns out 6-foot swells, and a lazy river winds past waterfalls and mist-filled caves. It’s one of the largest and most
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/ June 22, 2026
Schlitterbahn New Braunfels is the 70-plus-acre water park on the spring-fed Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas, that holds the record for the longest winning streak in the history of Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards — 26 straight years as “World’s Best Water Park,” from
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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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