Water slide at Escape Theme Park, Penang, Malaysia

 My kind of ride, just five minutes of moderate speed sliding

Not So Lazy Rivers of Summer - The Current - Atlantis - The Bahamas

I'd be the jerk who goes to the Bahamas and never went to the beach.

Theming!  Tunnels!  Rapids!  Fog machine!  Conveyor belt!

Not So Lazy Rivers of Summer - The Falls at Schlitterbahn

The Falls
Schlitterbahn
New Braunfels

Perhaps my favorite water ride that I've been on, but I've seen perhaps better executed versions of the same. Depending on where you start - the top level consists of a wide lazy river with occasional dips. At the end there's a turn with a pretty long rapids section - just the right speed for my tastes. Some more lazy rivers before a bottleneck at the conveyor belt to the top. I've ridden this for hours at a time.

The "transportainment" concept is flawed. There are two parks with the entrances about couple hundred yards apart, and the exits from the ride are in-between them. Nobody uses it as a means of getting from one side to the other. Could use a lot more shade as well. If you are intending to ride this, call ahead, as the ride is not in operation for the full season for some reason.  Also keep in mind that they count this as like five different rides on the map.

 

Lazy Rivers of Summer - Lazy River - Tiki Bad Dunrell

Tiki Bad Dunrell
Wassenaar, Netherlands

I have a perverse fascination with the industrial indoor water parks of northern Europe.  This may be unique - an enclosed indoor/outdoor lazy river.

Lazy Rivers of Summer - Cross Country Creek - Blizzard Beach - Walt Disney World

Cross Country Creek
Blizzard Beach - Walt Disney World

Lazy Rivers of Summer - Castaway Creek

Castaway Creek
Typhoon Lagoon - Walt Disney World

Lazy Rivers of Summer - Loggerhead Lane

Loggerhead Lane
Aquatica - Sea World
Orlando

Waterfalls!  Goes under another water feature!  Aquarium!

Lazy Rivers of Summer - Caribbean Bay

Caribbean Bay

Korea

Hard to find good footage of this one, but some nice, tall, themed walls around the river.

Lazy Rivers of Summer - BSR Cable Park

BSR Cable Park
Waco, TX
5000 Ft?

Claims to be the longest lazy river in the world.  They also claim to have the tallest and longest water slide in the world, which it isn't and isn't.  A concrete trench of urine-filled brown water cram packed with drunken douchebros.

Lazy Rivers of Summer - Big Bird's Rambling River

Big Bird's Rambling River
Sesame Place
Langhorne, PA
1000 Feet



More theming than most, and lots of stuff going on.  It's integrated nicely into the rest of the park, though I can't help but think kids are going to throw french fries at you as you pass the eating areas.

River Slide at Lalandia Water Park, Denmark

Lately I've been obsessed with Nordic indoor water parks, the kind that look like warehouses or airplane hangars filled with tubes and pasty white people.  Especially like indoor/outdoor rides (enclosed tubes don't count) - I like how this one has a double water curtain at the entrances.

All the Waterslides

Well, not all of them, but over 7000s POV waterslide videos by AmusementForce.  And it doesn't even cover North America.  A lot of duplicates, but still, that's a lot of waterslides.

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