White Water Bay (Oklahoma)
| White Water Bay | |
|---|---|
| Slogan | We Set the Stage! Come Be the Star! |
| Location | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Coordinates | 35°27′41″N 97°35′19″W / 35.461378°N 97.588506°WCoordinates: 35°27′41″N 97°35′19″W / 35.461378°N 97.588506°W |
| Owner |
Herschend Family Entertainment (1981-1991) Six Flags (1991-2007) CNL Lifestyle Properties (2007-2017) EPR Properties (2017-) |
| Operated by | Premier Parks, LLC |
| General Manager | David Riddles |
| Opened | May 23, 1981 |
| Previous names | White Water |
| Operating season | May to September |
| Area | Meridian Oklahoma City |
| Pools | 3 (Wave Pool, Activity Pool and Kids Pool) pools |
| Water slides | 12 (11 Operational) water slides |
| Website | www.WhiteWaterBay.com |
White Water Bay is a water theme park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma built in 1981. Built by the Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation and originally known as White Water, the water park was picked up by Premier Parks (then known as Tierco) in 1991 and its name was changed to White Water Bay. Both White Water Bay and the nearby theme park Frontier City were sold again in a seven park package by Six Flags on January 11, 2007, for $312 million. White Water Bay is currently owned by EPR Properties and operated by Premier Parks, LLC.
Certain rides & attractions, including new rides, may not be open at all times due to maintenance, weather and other circumstances.
Every major water ride except one is in place when White Water opened in 1981 is still operational today. The only exception to the rule is the Caribbean Cruise which was replaced by The Big Kahuna in the mid 1990s. Some aspects of the rides (particularly changes at what is now Shipwreck Island) have changed over the years. Below is a list of the names of the rides on opening day, and what they are currently named.
Dive In Movies - An arrangement of movies from rated g-pg-13, The Bay hosts a movie in the wave pool area. They close the entire park except the wave pool and the guests who stay to watch the movie relax in chairs or enter the water to enjoy the movie. Movie starts at when it gets dark and finishes at the end of the duration of the film.
Often riders would skip across the surface of the splash pool on their kickboards in the same way a stone skips across a pond. Due to this, inflated inner tubes were secured to the south end of the splash pool to prevent an impact with the concrete. Also to help prevent this, the kickboards were molded with ridges on the bottom.
For the first two years of this ride's existence, it was ridden without the kickboards...just laying on one's back. (Stomach riding was not allowed). After several injuries due to the way the people would hit the water, the kickboards were added for safety reasons.
There was also a miniature golf area present in the current area on the Northwest corner. The course is still there just no longer used due to the unpopularity of the attraction.
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