White Water Branson is located in Branson

Branson, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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 and is known by most in the area as just White Water. It features a wave pool

Wave pool

A wave pool is a swimming pool in which there are artificially generated, reasonably large waves, similar to the ocean's. Wave pools are often a major feature of water parks...

, a series of tubular slides, a ProSlide

ProSlide

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 mammoth family raft ride, and a slide deck featuring 2 speed slides and 4 "Racing Lanes".

History

When it opened sometime around 1980, advertisements declared it to be a stunning "Beach Within Reach". It was advertised as a simulated beachside landing, featuring the very first wave pool, and public and private cabanas. Although these things are still continued to this day, the park has been expanded extremely to meet the thrill needs of the modern era.

Non Height Requirement Rides

These rides have no height requirement, although not always gentle

• SurfQuake Wave Pool - A large pool with tube slides for floating. Large wakes are expelled every 15 minutes. Max Depth is 8 ft. when wakes occur pool may be 12 ft. deep at most.
• Lazy River - A large interactive pool, with a stream traveling up to 5 miles per hour while passengers float on provided inner tubes.
• Tropical Twister - A ProSlide
  ProSlide
  ProSlide Technology is a Canadian manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters with conveyor belts, funnel-shaped Tornado slides, and Bowl slides...
  
   Mammoth style family ride.

Intense Rides

• Bermuda Triangle - Extremely intense covered dark tube slide. Riders flow through a long stretch of slide, riding on an innertube.
• Caribbean Plunge - Two tube slides ending in a catch pool
• Raging River Rapids - A series of intense tube slides. There are blue and white ones. They do not permit double inner tubes. Added in 2005
• Kalani Towers - New in 2007, it is a four person ProSlide
  ProSlide
  ProSlide Technology is a Canadian manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters with conveyor belts, funnel-shaped Tornado slides, and Bowl slides...
  
   Racer (The Tower Racer), and a steep 70 degree drop freefall body slide (The Speed Slide). Also known as a ProSlide
  ProSlide
  ProSlide Technology is a Canadian manufacturer of water rides and water park resorts. They manufacture both traditional slides and innovative rides such as water coasters with conveyor belts, funnel-shaped Tornado slides, and Bowl slides...
  
  Pipeline.

Former Rides

• White Lightning - A five story tall slide that was removed in 1988 to make way for Niagara Falls.
• Niagara Falls - A five story tall family raft ride that was removed in 1991 to make way for Paradise Plunge.
• Typhoon Tunnel - An enclosed tube slide that was removed in 2004 to make way for Raging River Rapids.
• Hurricane Rapids - A raft adventure ride filled with hills and whirlpools that was removed in 2004 to make way for Raging River Rapids. Portions of it can still be seen today. It has been incorporated into the theme of Raging River Rapids.
• Paradise Plunge - Removed in 2006 to make way for Kalani Towers.

Attractions

• Little Squirts Waterworks
• RainTree Island
• Splash Island
• Sand Volleyball

External links

• White Water Branson's Official Site