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Best water park 27 years in a rowOperating

Schlitterbahn

Started in 1979 with four slides by the Henry family. The Master Blaster and the FlowRider were both invented here.Founded by the Henry family with four slides ("slippery road" in German); birthplace of the Master Blaster and the FlowRider; Golden Ticket Best Water Park every year from 1998 to 2024. Sold to Cedar Fair in 2019 (now Six Flags). The Kansas City sister park closed in 2018 and was demolished in 2021.

📍🇺🇸New Braunfels, Texas, United States
📅1979opened
🛝3documented slides

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Its name means "slippery road" in German. It was voted best water park in the world every year from 1998 to 2024.

🛝Slides at Schlitterbahn

First uphill water coaster (technology 1994)

Master Blaster

The very first water coaster in the world.The world's first uphill water coaster: 65 ft tall, 1,100 ft long.
First FlowRider

Boogie Bahn

The world's first surf machine, still running in Texas since 1991.Tom Lochtefeld's first FlowRider sheet wave opened at Schlitterbahn New Braunfels in 1991 and still operates.
World's longest tubing river (claim)

The Falls

A tubing river over a kilometre long, with rapids, at Schlitterbahn in Texas.The Falls (2011) is a ~0.

Only record-holders and notable slides are documented so far. Help us add the rest.

🗺️Where is it?

New Braunfels, Texas, United States · 29.711, -98.132. Show on the World Slide Map → · Official website ↗