Best Water Park Kids' Area (2015)

Within the balmy interior of Wild West, the biggest indoor water park at Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells, little squirts will find four stories of interactive aquatic fun at Ransack Ridge. This interactive play structure has it all: body slides, water cannons, blasters and, of course, a 750-gallon tipping bucket.
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Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus, Ind. might be most famous for housing the world's two longest water coasters, Mammoth and Wildebeest, but it also caters to kids at Safari Sam's SplashLand, a zero entry activity pool (maximum depth of 18 inches) where kids have their pick of eight different open and enclosed body slides.
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Head to the Boardwalk in Hersheypark in Hershey, Penn. to find East Coast Waterworks, a water playground boasting 54,000 gallons of fun in the form of seven slides, two crawl tunnels, bridges, ropes, tip cones and some 600 interactive water toys.
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Young guests at Schlitterbahn on South Padre Island find five levels of spray and play fun at Sand Castle Cove. This water play area, shaped like a giant sand castle, is outfitted with hundreds of water play elements, dump buckets and waterslides. A giant tipping bucket atop the castle makes for a perfect (and wet) family photo op.
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Young guests at the original Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, Texas love Han's Hideout, a five-level water-filled fun house in the shape of a German pirate ship. Crawl tunnels, body slides, climbing nets, dumping buckets and water cannons provide hours of fun for kids of all ages, and the 500-gallon water bucket on the bow of the shipwreck soaks unsuspecting pirates below to many a kid's delight.
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Joker Soaker, the interactive playground and wading pool at California's LEGOLAND amusement park, not only offers water cannons, gadgets and a 350-gallon tipping bucket, it also boasts a jester made from LEGOs who keeps guests laughing with his jokes as they play and splash below.
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At LEGOLAND Florida, the largest LEGOLAND park in the world, guests find a tangle of slides, water toys, cannons and more on the dual-level play structure known as Joker Soaker. Every few minutes, a 300-gallon tipping bucket soaks little ones waiting below.
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At the heart of America's largest water park, kids big and small get sprayed, splashed and soaked in Tadpole Bay, the kid-centric play zone at Noah's Ark. Topped by an 8-foot-tall tipping bucket, the colorful, multi-level structure boasts four waterslides and 50 interactive water toys and elements.
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At Splash Attack, the watery play area at Adventure Island in Tampa, kids and adults alike are sure to get soaked thanks to 500 feet of open and enclosed slides and 50 water play toys covering a giant tree house structure at its center. Guests scramble over bridges, crawl along nets and webs and climb ropes all while awaiting a 1,000-gallon wooden bucket to dump over their heads.
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Inside Lost World, one of eight water parks at Wilderness Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wis., kids often make a beeline for Fossil Falls, a spray and play structure with a dinosaur theme. Topping the multi-level aquatic playground is a 750-gallon tipping bucket.
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