![]() ![]() So, the park is not the largest in square footage (although it is large) it's the largest in terms of the number of hotel rooms. ![]() We've already established that there are North American indoor water parks that are much bigger. The Fallsview folks, however, claimed their complex included 1,200 affiliated hotel rooms, which was the most hotel rooms of any indoor water park resort. As it was being built, its designers added a mezzanine and outdoor pool which brought the total up to 125,000 square feet. Before it opened, Fallsview's developers said that it would be 90,000 square feet. "North America's largest waterpark hotel." That was the claim made by Fallsview Indoor Water Park in Niagara Falls. That's just a few thousand square feet shy of its sister park in Texas and Canada's World Waterpark. The Kalahari Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania expanded in 2017 and doubled the size of its water park to 220,000 square feet. But it is a bit strange that its parks are not all in one place. ![]() Adding the fourth water park to the total puts the combined square footage of the indoor water parks at the Wilderness at 240,000 square feet, which would make the Wilderness bigger than the Kalahari (and World Waterpark). It offers its own small indoor water park, Cubby's Cove. The Wilderness Territory resort includes the nearby, but detached Wilderness on the Lake. The combined square footage of the three indoor water parks in the main part of the resort (which guests can access by padding through its labyrinth hallways) stands at 205,000 square feet. The Wilderness in Wisconsin Dells spreads its indoor water parks among four separate buildings. Kalahari’s Texas location is the nation's second largest indoor water park under one roof. Why, then, does the Kalahari make the claim as America’s largest indoor water park? Beats us. But, at 370,260 square feet, the DreamWorks Water Park is considerably bigger. That barely eclipses the Kalahari in Pennsylvania (see below) and almost (but not quite) matches the size of the World Waterpark in Alberta. The 350-acre property includes about 1,000 hotel rooms, a 200,000-square-foot convention center, an indoor family entertainment center with rides, and a 223,000-square-foot indoor water park. In fact, its newest location, which opened in November 2020 in Round Rock, Texas, claims to be the largest in the U.S. The Kalahari chain of indoor water park resorts boasts large parks. But it's the claim for the second spot that gets interesting. Similarly, American Dream in New Jersey offers the Nickelodeon Theme Park along with a host of other attractions, and has plans for a hotel.Īs outlined above, DreamWorks Water Park in New Jersey is the country’s largest indoor water park. But the mall does offer some onsite hotels, so it could be argued that the mall itself is one giant resort. A standalone water park, it is one of the attractions at the West Edmonton Mall (which also includes Galaxyland, an indoor theme park). Unlike most of the other parks included in this feature, however, it is not a water park resort. World Waterpark is the second largest indoor water park in the continent under one roof. However, Wilderness in Wisconsin Dells may be able to claim the second spot (which we will discuss later). It now comes in second to DreamWorks Water Park in New Jersey. ![]() At five acres, or roughly 225,000 square feet, the mall's water park used to lay claim as the largest indoor water park in North America. Long before the hotels in Wisconsin Dells kicked off the indoor water park phenomenon and resorts started battling it out for bragging rights, the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, opened World Waterpark. ![]()
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