When the days get hot in summer, it’s always nice to cool down and have some fun by visiting a water park. Whether you love rushing down the water slides, floating on a lazy river, or just splashing around in a wave pool, these parks offer all kinds of ways to have fun and stay cool without having to hide from the sun. If you live in the Indianapolis area, you can find plenty of fun water parks near you.
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The Waterpark
Keep things simple by spending your day at The Waterpark, a popular destination in Caramel, Indiana just off East 111th Street and North College Avenue. The Waterpark offers a lap pool for general activities, several water slides, a lazy river loop that covers an eighth of a mile, a shallow kiddie pool, and even a climbing wall suspended over the deep pool. However, the park’s biggest attraction is the FlowRider, a wave pool with waves so strong that you can surf on them.
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Freedom Springs Aquatics Park
While The Waterpark is on the north side of Indianapolis, the Freedom Springs Aquatics Park is on the south end in Greenwood. You’ll find it just behind Greenwood Middle School on County Road 100 West. Like the park on the north side, Freedom Springs offers several slides, a lap pool, a lazy river, and a children’s play area. They also host a great many local attractions such as live music concerts, movie screenings, and private events held in the park’s many shelters.
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Indy Island Aquatic Center
The Indy Island Aquatic Center is east of central Indianapolis, and you’ll find it on East Raymond Street near the Raymond Park Middle School. Unlike the first two parks on this list, the Indy Island Center is an indoor pool, so it’s open year-round instead of only during the summer months. It’s not as big as the outdoor parks, but it still has several water slides, a waterfall, and a shallow pool where kids can have plenty of fun. It also has a separate lap pool for visitors who want to exercise or play in the deep end.
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Splash Island
This park is on the west side of Indianapolis, and you can reach it by heading north on Vestal Road from Main Street. Splash Island offers three water slides, a play area for visitors of all ages, two vortex pools, and a 900-foot lazy river with a side path that takes you under a cool waterfall. You can also practice your swimming and diving in the six-lane competition pool with a diving-friendly deep end. Then there’s the zero-depth kiddie pool where very young visitors can play in water jets or dump a 500-gallon bucket.
When you want to have some outdoor fun and stay cool at the same time, a water park is hard to beat. And while you won’t find a big water park in the middle of downtown Indianapolis, you’ll certainly find what you’re looking for in every other direction.
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