This park is full of fun play structures for kids, including Hook’s Lagoon, a wooden tree house with plenty of sprayers, water cannons, and a huge tipping bucket for a full body soaking. Families can also enjoy the 500,000-gallon Commotion Ocean wave pool and Adventure River lazy river, or seek out the gentler wave pool and lazy river inside Splash Read more...

Kids will fall for the Tahiti Tree House with tipping bucket and Pirate’s Pool & Lagoon featuring cannons, slides, and volcanoes at Water Country in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The littlest ones will go gaga splashing around Bubble Bay’s geysers and climbing Ollie Octopus in a shallow, zero-entry pool. The New England water park’s 26 acres also include bigger thrills for bigger Read more...

This Long Island gem has 96 acres of adventure. Group raft rides include the winding Mammoth River and in-the-dark Hollywood Stunt Rider. Dr. Von Dark’s Tunnel of Terror is also pitch black and includes 360-degree spins and a 40-foot drop. Little kids will enjoy swinging from the tentacles of a silly octopus, exploring an interactive mini pirate ship and sliding Read more...

Starting May 18, splash on the shores of the Blue Lagoon wave pool, or go all in with or without a raft, up to 6 feet deep at New Jersey’s top water park, which seems to just keep on expanding. Six Flags Hurricane Harbor New Jersey also offers Discovery Bay, a scaled-down wave pool and slides, and a water play area with Read more...

Just three miles from Busch Gardens, this Virginia water park offers more than 40 rides and attractions. Little ones can enjoy plenty of themed, shallow-water playgrounds and activity pools at Water Country. In addition to tubing down the 736-foot Rambling River, visitors to Water Country can body float with a life vest down Hubba Hubba Highway, which provides a fast-moving current. There’s Read more...

California has the most amusement parks of any state, and this is its biggest water park. Located on 50 acres, it has over 36 water slides and attractions. Among the most impressive heart-racers is The Bermuda Triangle — one of the fastest water slides in the U.S. at about 50 miles per hour. It has three different courses that whiz Read more...

Part of Holiday World Theme Park — home of the $22 million Thunderbird roller coaster – Splashin’ Safari Water Park features two of the largest high tech water coasters in the world, the Mammoth and the Wildebeest. (They are also ranked the best in the country.) For those who might be a little too tiny or timid for these bad Read more...

If dropping out a trap door and experiencing a zero gravity, 10-story fall appeals to the adrenaline junkie in you — then head straight for this water park. In addition to the aforementioned Dive Bomber, there is a mix of tube rides, raft rides, rapids, slides, and lagoons for everyone in the family. Bonus: Six Flags has cabanas where visitors Read more...

SeaWorld’s Aquatica is one of the top-three most popular water parks in the U.S. A favorite rid among visitors is Ihu’s Breakaway Falls. According to the park, it is the tallest, steepest, and only multi-drop tower slide in Orlando. (Florida is the state with second hight number of amusement parks.) But what makes this park really unique is its animal-interaction Read more...

ome to Verruckt, the tallest water slide in the world, it plummets four riders on a raft down 15 stories, reaching speeds up to 70 miles per hour. The ride has gotten so popular, visitors who want to ride must make a reservation at the beginning of the day. If that bad boy is too scary for you, Torrent Beach, Read more...