Water Country USA is a water theme park in York County, Virginia, about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. It is the Mid-Atlantic's largest water park, and it offers live entertainment, shops and restaurants, water rides, and other attractions, all of which have a 1950s or 1960s surf theme. It is owned by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a division of The Blackstone Group. The park is just a few miles away from Busch Gardens Williamsburg, with which it shares clientele. Multi-park passes are available, and a parking pass at Water Country USA is valid for same-day entry to Busch Gardens Williamsburg.

Rides

• Aquazoid: Family ride. About 80% enclosed in the dark, had special effects but most were abandoned, and four water curtains. Opened in 1997.
• Big Daddy Falls: Family ride with a tunnel, water curtain, a "cannon blaster," and two splash pools. Opened in 1995.
• Hubba-Hubba Highway: Fast-moving action river with interactive water features. Opened in 2003.
• Jet Scream: Four single-rider inner-tube slides.
• Juke Box Tower: Home of three body slides known as "Funky Chicken", "The Hully Gully", and "The Twist". Opened in 2008.
• Little Bopper: Small children's slide in the Rock N Roll Island area. Opened in 2008.
• Malibu Pipeline: Two mirror image slides with covered sections and two water curtains. Opened in 1993.
• Meltdown: Slowest but steepest ride in the park, with a three person tube. Opened in 2000.
• Nitro Racer: This ride uses six slide lanes to allow guests to race face first on plastic/foam mats. Opened in 1998.
• Rampage: A toboggan slide which drops riders 75 feet at a 60 degree angle.
• Surfer's Bay: Virginia's largest wave-pool, offering four-foot waves.
• Wild Thang: Two person inner tube ride through open/covered sections and three water curtains.

Defunct Rides

• Atomic Breakers: A series of slides and splash pools. Closed and removed 2007.
• Lemon Drop: 2 short Yellow body flumes which dropped into a deep (10 ft) section of the Adventure Isle pool. Closed and removed in 2008.
• Peppermint Twist: Two steep purple-colored body slides take riders through a 180 degree curve. This ride closed following the 2007 season. The tower, however, remains intact and is used as the tower for the new Jammin' Jukebox body slides.
• Volleyball Courts: Several beach volleyball courts that took up the space where Hubba Hubba Highway is now, and before that were located across from Jet Scream where the lockers are. (Catering was where the restrooms are.)
• Little Twister: A small pink children's water slide. Demolished and removed in the 2008 season.

Shows

• Island Quest: a 20 minute performance by high divers, acrobats and trampoline artists.

Attractions

• Adventure Isle: A water obstacle course surrounded by Water Country's Rambling River, around which guests may float on one- or two-person inner-tubes. Was renamed Rock & Roll Island in the 2008 season. The pool was filled in to 3 foot and re-painted, 3 new tube slides debuted on May 8, 2008.
• Cow-A-Bunga: A heated water playland for children under 54", offering water slides, fountains and waterfalls.
• H20-UFO: Slides and fountains in an area set aside for patrons under 56".
• Kritter Korral: Play equipment and miniature slides for the park's smallest guest. Reserved for children under 50".

External links

• Water Country USA