Wisconsin Dells: Water Park Capital
No city stays up on water park trends like Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, which bills itself as the “Waterpark Capital of the World.” With multiple indoor and outdoor complexes, this water park mecca is a group destination year-round. Wisconsin Dells’ credentials are staggering:
• Five large water park resorts, one outdoor water park, several small water park hotels
• Nation’s largest water park: Noah’s Ark Waterpark, spanning 70 acres
• World’s first indoor water park: The Polynesian Resort, in 1989
• Nation’s largest indoor/outdoor water complex: Wilderness Territory, at 500,000 square feet
• More than 200 water slides
• More than 16 million gallons of water
• 3,820 inner tubes in town
• 4 million visitors a year
• New in December 2015: Slideboarding at Klondike Kavern