Summers in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just like most other places in the United States, get hot and at times the outside heat can seem unbearable. Water parks located near Ann Arbor offer a place to enjoy the day, cool off and experience fun rides with your friends or family. Although the Great Lakes surround Michigan, you don't have to drive to the shores of one to experience the fun of playing in the water during the summer.
Open from Memorial Day through Labor Day, Rolling Hills Water Park offers visitors a wave pool, 750-foot-long lazy river and two water slides, one for children and one for adults. In addition, the park has an activity pool for younger children that includes bubbles, a waterfall and a small slide. The park also has two playground areas that shoot water from different points, and an area for toddlers to play in the sand. If you don't want to join your child, you can watch them while lounging close by underneath one of the parks shade-creating umbrellas. The park offers a full concessions area complete with all kinds of food options and summer treats. You can also buy child-sized life jackets, swim diapers, swimsuits, sunscreen and locker services at the concessions area.
Rolling Hills Water Park
7660 Stony Creek Road
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
734-484-9676
ewashtenaw.org
This indoor water park offers a place for year-round summer fun, even in the dead of winter. For children, a Little Squirt Pool and a Water Adventure Treehouse give them a place to enjoy themselves and have fun with other visitors. A floating log walk and adventure slides that weave in and out of the building give older and more adventurous visitors a place to let off some steam and have fun in the water. The entire family can relax together in the River Raisin, an indoor lazy river. Parents get to escape from all the action into an adult-only hot tub hidden from the rest of the scene. After a long day in the water, Tree House Pub & Grill helps you re-fuel. Admission passes are available for participants and spectators for either a full day of fun or half a day of activities.
Splash Universe
100 Whitetail Drive
Dundee, MI 48131
877-752-7482
riverrun.splashuniverse.com
With two long, twisting water slides that are more than 200 feet long and a pool and spray area, Splash-N-Blast has an attraction for anyone, whether you like the thrill of water slides or just like to relax in a themed pool area. A spraying area with palm trees, snakes, cannons and a whale that shoot out water give kids a fun area to play in while their parents either play with them or look on from a close distance.
Splash-N-Blast
2240 Buno Road
Kensington Metropark
Milford, MI 48380
800-477-3178
metroparks.com
