Water Parks Upping The Ante

By Author: Steve Robinson
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People are increasing willing to travel out of their way to water parks via cheap airplane tickets and stay in discount hotel rooms. The reason people are increasingly traveling to water parks is because their rides are more exciting than ever.

Gone are the days where most water park rides consist of log flumes and mat slides. Today guests travel down water swishing half pipes, free fall slides dropping riders from almost 10 stories high, and near vertical looping slides that shoot riders out like cannonballs at 40 mph.

The following are just a few examples of the country’s most popular water parks:

• The 70 acre Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, Texas claims to be home to “the World’s Longest Waterpark Ride” and offers 3,600 feet of waves, rapids, and waterfalls for tubers.

• Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari, in Santa Claus, IN, has come out with “the Mammoth” which it claims is the world’s longest water coaster. It stretches over 1763 feet and using hydromagnetic technology to speed riders up and down in circular six person rafts. It is also home to Pilgrim’s ...
... Plunge which is the world’s tallest water ride. Passengers are taken 13 stories up in a boat like elevators and then dropped at a 45 degree angle, creating major splashes.

• Disney World’s Typhoon Lagoon is the busiest water park in the world. Visitors can snorkel with sharks, bodysurf in six foot waves in the country’s biggest wave pool, and ride the new “Crush ‘n’ Gusher” a 400 foot long whitewater raft ride with multiple steep plunges and hairpin turns.
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