Such an easy getaway: point the car toward the nearest resort with its own indoor water park, with crazy slides, wave pools, lazy rivers, squirters and dunking buckets. Some resorts add an outdoor water park in summer. Meanwhile, at tropical resorts, guests can ride those lazy rivers and water-slides outside, year-round.
1. Great Wolf Lodge Resorts With Indoor Water Park
Photos courtesy of Great Wolf Lodge.
Signature features -- besides great water parks-- include: Grand Lobby with animated Clock Tower, nightly story-telling; all-suite guestrooms; Northern Lights Arcade; spa with Aveda products; Wiley's Woods "dry play zone"; MagiQuest interactive fantasy game; and special seasons Howl-o-Ween in October, and Snowland in December ending with "Snowball" on New Year's Eve.
2. Wisconsin Dells: "Indoor Water Park Capital of the World"
This little burg started the indoor water park trend, as one resort after another built private indoor (and outdoor) water parks for guests. Visitors to "The Dells" will find family resorts with giant water parks and state-of-the-art thrills such as "Tanzanian Twister" waterslide (40 mph, 127 ft.; "toilet bowl" flush). Plenty of tamer slides and fun for little kids, too. Some resorts have extensive "dry play zones" as well.3. Kalahari Resort
Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Dells Chamber of Commerce
Incredibly, this is not the biggest Kalahari indoor water park: that one's in Sandusky Ohio.
4. Sandusky Ohio - Resorts with Indoor Water Parks
Photo courtesy of Cedar Point Amusement Park/Resort.
5. NY: Six Flags Great Escape Lodge and Indoor Waterpark
photo courtesy of Six Flags Great Escape Lodge.
6. CoCo Key Water Resorts
Cherry Valley Lodge indoor water park; photo courtesy of CoCo Key Water Resort.
