White Water Bay is a water park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city in the state of Oklahoma. The county seat of Oklahoma County, the city ranks 31st among United States cities in population. The city's population, from the 2010 census, was 579,999, with a metro-area population of 1,252,987 . In 2010, the Oklahoma...

 built in 1981. Originally built by the Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation

Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation

Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation is a privately owned themed-entertainment company that operates several theme parks and tourist attractions within the United States....

, White Water Bay was picked up by Premier Parks (then known as Tierco) in 1991 and its name was changed from White Water to White Water Bay. Both White Water Bay and the nearby theme park Frontier City

Frontier City

Frontier City is a western-themed amusement park in Oklahoma City's Adventure District. It is currently owned by CNL Lifestyle Properties and operated by former Six Flags executives Kieran Burke and Gary Story. The park is the subject of the song "Frontier City" by the Nashville band Kings of...

 were sold again in a seven park package by Six Flags

Six Flags

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 on January 11, 2007, for $312 million. White Water Bay is currently owned by CNL Lifestyle Properties. CNL leased White Water Bay to PARC Management

PARC Management

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Rides include

• The Mega Wedgie, Built in 2005, it is a 277 feet (84.4 m) speed slide that features a 64 feet (19.5 m) free fall.
• The Acapulco Cliff Dive is a water slide that begins with a short drop, then levels out in a section with water flowing into the slide, and ends with a long drop to the splash area below.
• The Bermuda Triangle, is a set of three flume-style rides that allow single riders with inner tubes. It is roughly seven storeys tall and reaches speeds of 35 miles per hour. The Bermuda Triangle's starting pools are atop the same tower as those of the "Mega Wedgie" and "The Acapulco Cliff Dive". This tower is clearly visible from Interstate 40
  Interstate 40
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  , with an American flag that could be seen flying on a pole mounted at the top of the tower.
• Cannonball Falls is two slides, each with an 8 feet (2.4 m) drop into a splash pool. One of Cannonball Fall's slides is enclosed and features a long left turn followed by a short right turn before dropping into the pool. The other slide is not enclosed, and has no turns. Cannonball Falls's splash pool has two exits; one is a stairway onto the walkway at ground level, and the other is an entry into "Castaway Creek".
• The Big Kahuna, Opened in 1995, this family tube ride takes up to four passengers down a 542 feet (165.2 m) flume slide and then into a 4 feet (1.2 m) pool for a splash landing. Sits on ground formerly occupied by the defunct "All American Plunge".
• Swashbuckler Flumes Tube is a single-passenger flume slide.
• Castaway Creek is a 4 feet (1.2 m) canal that travels around the park by a slow-moving current.
• The Gangplank is a rock face eleven-feet above the surface of the water at the north end of "Shipwreck Island".
• Shipwreck Island is an activity pool with wobbly "Lily Pads", a set of high jump rocks known as "The Gangplank", and four body slides: "Calypso Cannonball", "Blackbeard's Revenge", and two SBNO rock slides.
• Keelhaul Falls is a shallow water tube ride that floats from one pool to the next via short drops and slides.
• Pirates's Plunge, Formerly called "The Black Hole", it is a tube flume slide that takes goes through a dark tunnel and then out into the west end of "Shipwreck Island".
• Blackbeard's Revenge is a slide that follows a clockwise turn and then exits at water-level close to the middle of "Shipwreck Island".
• Calypso Cannonball is a short slide that exits at water level into the north end of "Shipwreck Island".
• The Wave Pool is a large pool with depths ranging from the zero depth entry to roughly eight feet. In the 2009 season, the waves were on for five minutes and then off for thirteen minutes.
• Kids' Kove is a kid-sized pool with a kove of creatures; an octopus, a submarine, high-rising fountains, and character slides.

Rides on opening day

Every major water ride except one is in place when White Water opened in 1981 is still operational today. The only exception to the rule is the Caribbean Cruise which was replaced by The Big Kahuna in the mid 1990s. Some aspects of the rides (particularly changes at what is now Shipwreck Island) have changed over the years. Below is a list of the names of the rides on opening day, and what they are currently named.

• Great Sea Wave, now known simply as The Wave Pool.
• The Twister and The Sidewinder, now known collectively as Swashbuckler Flumes.
• Pirate's Cove, currently known as Shipwreck Island.
• The Rapids, now known as Keelhaul Falls.
• Little Squirts Island, now known as Kids' Kove.

Defunct rides

• All American Plunge, A speed slide that stood where the Big Kahuna is today. Guests rode special kickboards through a small gate and down this slide facing forwards. Guests could either sit atop the kickboard or lie atop it on their stomachs and ride the All American Plunge head first into the splash pool.

Often riders would skip across the surface of the splash pool on their kickboards in the same way a stone skips across a pond. Due to this, inflated inner tubes were secured to the south end of the splash pool to prevent an impact with the concrete. Also to help prevent this, the kickboards were molded with ridges on the bottom.

For the first two years of this ride's existence, it was ridden without the kickboards...just laying on one's back. (Stomach riding was not allowed). After several injuries due to the way the people would hit the water, the kickboards were added for safety reasons.

There was also a miniature golf area present in the current area on the Northwest corner where they now have picnics. This golf course was not used a lot and removed after about five years.