So-Cal Waterpark's!

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Beautiful Southern California. Palm trees, sandy beaches, and Hollywood is what normally comes to mind. However, we are graced with a wide array of water parks to keep your toes free of sand and thrill level at a maximum!


I had the opportunity to visit 4 of them:
-Six Flags Hurricane Harbor-Valencia
-Raging Waters-San Dimas
-Knott's Soak City- Palm Springs
-Knott's Soak City-Orange County

Approaching the Park

Raging Waters is part of a chain of 3 water parks in California

Water slide at the Park
You might recognize this from
the movie Norbit

(Sacramento, San Jose, and San Dimas). However the San Dimaslocation is the most well known, mostly because of its close proximity to Hollywood, it has been featured in numerous movies and TV shows and Music videos. Some of them include Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure, Norbit, and most recently Justin Beiber's "Beauty and the Beat" music video. While the park is not very large, it has more attractions than any other water park in California. There are many winding paths and high and low areas in the park that make for lots of walking throughout your day. Besides the attractions (which are some of the best around) some of the highlights of this park are its unique food outlets that include: Pinks Hot Dogs, Breyers Ice Cream, Dole Whips, and Carl's Jr.


For those of you who don't know where Palm Springs is located, it is about 1.5 hours east of Los

Wave Pool

Angeles, and is at the start of the California Desert. Meaning that once you hit the summer months, it is HOT. Daily temperatures

Tornado

are in the triple digits and clouds are rare. Soak City is located in the middle of the city and has been around since 201 when it operated as the Oasis Water park. Since the Soak City name change, most of the park remained the same with their large Wave Pool, 3 main slide complex's and a lazy river. The only major addition to the park was the Pro Slide Tornado which opened in 2006. The park has a great family atmosphere, and with lots of grass and misters it is easy to stay cool even out of the water.

Soak City OC Slides

The Orange County location is unique as it is a sister park to the Knott's Berry Farm theme park. This location had many of the same types of attractions, and a massive Lazy river. One thing this park benefited from was lots of wide open walkways and seating areas. A unique feature was their "no chairs allowed" grassy areas.  This was neat as it didn't allow guests to move chairs out of their designated areas and gave families nice picnic areas to eat at in the park. With the screams of roller coaster riders in the air, its a great atmosphere for a day in the pool.

Following my day at Soak City Orange County, I ventured into Knott's Berry Farm for some night coasters. One of the attractions I was most

Xcelerator

looking forward to experiencing was the Timber Mountain Log Ride, as they had just recently reopened after a major renovation. While it may seem to be a simple Log Flume ride, it is one of best themed attractions around and certainly the best flume ride that I have ever experienced. However once in the park I found out it went down for maintenance shortly before I had arrived. I planning on returning sometime in the near future. Since the park was closing so soon, I was only able to ride Pacific Spin and

Knott's at Night

Xcelerator (one of my favorite coasters).

 Overall Southern California has a great selection of theme parks and water parks to visit, and will certainly leave any thrill seeking tourist satisfied.

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