If you're looking for family fun at a Minnesota hotel when visiting lake country or the Mall of America, you're in luck, since many of the state's hotels and resorts include water parks with a variety of water slides. These facilities are designed both for the adventurous and for those who prefer a more leisurely slide.
In northern Minnesota, Duluth's Edgewater Resort & Water Park features The Edge, a 35,000-foot tropical-themed indoor water park with an exploding volcano, body slides, a vortex pool, children's pool and a lazy river for floating.
The Edgewater Resort is a Best Western property with 300 rooms, which include two-room suites and kid suites. The hotel also offers an arcade, conference facilities, reasonable rates with a variety of specials, and complimentary breakfast.
Edgewater Resort & Water Park
2400 London Road
Duluth, MN 55812
(800) 777-7925
duluthwaterpark.com/resort/index.php
Just a few blocks from the famed Mall of America in Bloomington, the Radisson Hotel is home to the Water Park of America, which takes riders 90 feet above the Minneapolis skyline.
The water park offers the state's only "Flow Rider Surf Simulator" for surfing practice, as well as a wave pool and the longest indoor family raft ride in the world, more than one mile long and 10 stories tall.
The Radisson Hotel has 403 rooms, including suites, high-speed Internet access, room service, reasonable rates, convenience to shopping and other local attractions.
Radisson Hotel Bloomington
1700 American Boulevard East
Bloomington, MN 55425-1216
(952) 698-8888
radisson.com/hotels/mnblmmal/rooms
Located in the popular Baxter and Brainerd Lakes Area, Paul Bunyan Water Park is part of The Lodge at Brainerd Lakes.
The 30,000-square-foot water park includes a holographic tube slide (the second of its kind), which has 16 different themes that come with light and music, a body slide that rockets riders out of the hotel and then back where they land in the pool four stories below, a zero-depth pool and a tree house activity center.
There are life vests provided and life guards on duty. The Lodge itself opened in 2005 and offers 102 updated lodge-style rooms with natural wood and stone fireplaces, as well as conference facilities.
The Lodge at Brainerd Lakes
6967 Lake Forest Road
Baxter, MN
(877) 843-5634
lodgehotelsbrainerd.com/index.php/brainerd-water-park
