The Fall: America’s Tallest Water Slide
The tallest water slide in North America isn’t at a Disney or Universal park — it’s in Wisconsin Dells. The Fall crowns the Icarus Tower at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, dropping riders from 145 ft (44.2 m). It opened in summer 2024 as the headliner of the park’s Rise of Icarus expansion and took the continental record on day one.
Wisconsin Dells calls itself the Waterpark Capital of the World, and The Fall is its exclamation point: taller than anything at Universal’s Volcano Bay, Disney’s Blizzard Beach, or any cruise line’s private island.
Key Stats
| Height | 145 ft (44.2 m) |
| Opened | 2024 |
| Type | Body slide, tallest of five on the Icarus Tower |
| Park | Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin |
| Record | Tallest water slide in North America |
The Rise of Icarus
The Fall is the tallest of five slides on the Icarus Tower, the centerpiece of the Rise of Icarus complex Mt. Olympus opened in 2024 alongside the Icaria Splash ‘N Slide children’s area. Its tower-mates carry equally mythological names: The Journey, The Drop, The Voyage and The Flight. In a park themed entirely to ancient Greece, naming the record-breaker after Icarus’s downfall is about as on-brand as it gets.
The Records It Broke
At 145 ft, The Fall snatched the North American crown from two very different rivals: the indoor slides Thrillagascar and Jungle Jammer at New Jersey’s DreamWorks Water Park (142 ft) and the outdoor Daredevil’s Peak at Royal Caribbean’s Perfect Day at CocoCay in the Bahamas (135 ft). It also towers over the tallest slides at the destination giants — Volcano Bay’s Ko’okiri Body Plunge is 125 ft, and Blizzard Beach’s Summit Plummet is 120 ft.
Globally, it lands at #8 on our ranking of the tallest water slides in the world. The world record — 250 ft 4 in at Qatar’s Meryal Waterpark — is another 105 feet up, but among slides you can reach without a passport, nothing in the hemisphere tops The Fall except Brazil’s Kilimanjaro.
Mt. Olympus, Record Collector
Mt. Olympus has made a habit of superlatives: the resort is also home to America’s first rotating waterslide and Poseidon’s Rage, one of the world’s largest surf pools. The Greek-mythology-themed park has been assembling records across its indoor and outdoor water parks and coaster lineup for two decades, and the Rise of Icarus is its biggest swing yet.
FAQ
How tall is The Fall at Mt. Olympus?
145 ft (44.2 m) — the tallest water slide in North America since it opened in 2024.
What did The Fall beat for the North American record?
The 142-ft indoor slides Thrillagascar and Jungle Jammer at DreamWorks Water Park in New Jersey, and the 135-ft Daredevil’s Peak at Perfect Day at CocoCay.
Is The Fall the tallest water slide in the world?
No — it ranks #8 worldwide. The global record belongs to Vertigo and The Fractionator at Meryal Waterpark in Qatar, at 250 ft 4 in.