When temperatures rise, families start searching for exciting places to cool off. Fortunately, water parks across the Deep South are continually improving, featuring new attractions that promise bigger splashes, thrilling drops, and exciting raft rides.

01. Alabama’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

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02. Arkansas’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

Magic Springs & Crystal Falls Water and Theme Park: This theme park boasts the largest water park in Arkansas, featuring a lazy river, numerous body slides, and interactive toddler playgrounds.

03. Louisiana’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

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04. Mississippi’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

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05. Oklahoma’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

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06. Tennessee’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

Dollywood’s Splash Country, Pigeon Forge: This expansive 30-acre water park features over 23 slides, including the Mountain Scream body slide and RiverRush, Tennessee’s first water coaster, alongside two interactive children’s playgrounds that offer great fun for all ages.

07. Texas’s Biggest and Best Water Parks

Schlitterbahn, New Braunfels: This flagship water park offers a variety of interconnected attractions, including the famous Tubenbach section, which is known for providing an incredible floating experience with 3,600 feet of waves, rapids, and waterfalls.

BSR Cable Park, Waco: Featuring the Royal Flush, this popular waterslide has captured attention across social media.

Aquatica at Sea World, San Antonio: This large water park embraces a South Seas theme with exciting rides such as Stingray Falls, a family raft ride that provides an underwater adventure filled with exotic sea life.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas, San Antonio: This amusement park offers an array of attractions from wave pools and lazy rivers to body slides and a thrilling water slide complex.

Schlitterbahn, South Padre Island: This venue encompasses both an outdoor water park by the beach and a climate-controlled indoor water park housed within a hotel, featuring attractions like Boogie Bahn and Torrent River.

Corsicana Water and Adventure Park, Corsicana: Set to open in 2014, this water park will feature multiple pools, a lazy river, mat racers, tube slides, ziplines, beach volleyball courts, and a stunning water fountain show.