New at Schlitterbahn... Just in case you haven’t been paying attention to the calendar, the month of May has finally arrived. That means warmer weather, a holiday weekend, and the need to hit the nation’s water parks. It’s fine if you save your 2011 visit until June, July, or August, but here are five of the biggest and baddest slips and slides hitting the parks this season:
· Constrictor
The temperature is already too hot to handle in Arizona, so that’s why we’re suggesting a visit to the Wet ‘n’ Wild in Phoenix. There’s tons of attractions and rides to cool you down, but new this year is Constrictor. It’s an enclosed flume slide that sends riders through a bunch of corkscrew turns and spirals—kind of like a coiled snake, get it, Constrictor?—all while they try to hold onto their group sized rafts. Park officials are promising the tightest water slide turns in the world, as well as a water slide that’s never been seen anywhere else. They’re still putting together the final bits and pieces so don’t go just yet, but they do promise it will be open in time for the sweltering summer temperatures.
· Bombs Away
The towns in Northern California don’t get as toasty as their sister cities down the coast, but there’s still plenty of warm days where the kiddies of San Jose will need to cool off. Raging Waters is challenging visitors to enter a capsule at the tippy top of the park’s newest water slide Bombs Away, and from there it’s going to be a 55-foot vertical drop thanks to a sneaky trap door. The soaking doesn’t end there, as after the free-fall riders will be tossed about a loop before hitting a final splashdown pool. It sounds a little dangerous to us—especially if your bathing suit isn’t firmly attached—but we still suggest checking out when it opens Memorial Day weekend. ]]>
