Florida Water Parks

If the beach is not enough, then there are also a number of water parks in Florida offering everything from wave pools, water slides and chutes to swimming with sharks or dolphins.

One of the earliest water parks is Wet 'n Wild in Orlando which opened in 1977 and boasts the highest visitor attendance of all the water parks. It has a number of traditional water slides and chutes.

Disney have built two landscaped water parks in Orlando, firstly Typhoon Lagoon which is based around a tropical island lagoon and provides an enormous wave pool simulating the surf on a beach and also offers an opportunity to swim over a tropical reef inhabited by (harmless!) nurse sharks. They then created Blizzard Beach which is bizarrely modelled on a ski resort. This park is more for the thrill seeker with impressive water chutes.

Following on from the success of SeaWorld Orlando, Busch Entertainment then created an exclusive water park across the road called Discovery Cove where you can laze on an artificial beach, swim with tropical reef fish and stingrays or interact with dolphins.

They are now building a second water park, Aquatica which opens in March 2008 and will be similar to the two Disney water parks.

In recent years, Cypress Gardens have added a water park to their botanical gardens, zoo and theme park rides.

Today there are a number of water parks in Florida. For more information, click on the related links in the sidebar (top right of page).

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