When the other water parks are shut down during the cold months, visit an indoor water park and bring the atmosphere of summer fun to your winter vacation. Pack the family in the car for a road trip from Pittsburgh to one of the nearby indoor water parks.
Splash Lagoon offers a variety of water rides and activities for your family’s entertainment. Adventure Bay encourages visitors to play a game of water basketball, and body slides like Shark Attack, Maui Wowwie and Hurricane Hole welcome guests to ride the water down to a pool. The Frog Pond offers a whirlpool with splashing fountains, whereas the Lava Pool is a calmer, more relaxing environment. Paradise Cove provides adults-only fun. Other activities include arcade games, magic shows, board games, crafts and a dry tree house.
Lodging accommodations are not available at Splash Lagoon, but a Residence Inn and Comfort Inn are located next door, ensuring your family can stay for a long weekend at this destination just two hours from Pittsburgh.
8091 Peach Street
Erie, PA 16509-4732
(814) 217-1111
splashlagoon.com/attractions.html
America’s largest indoor water park, The African-themed Kalahari offers all of the joys of a water park all year round. Popular rides include Swahili Swirl, a 60-foot diameter bowl raft ride. Zip Coaster offers the thrills of a roller coaster but in a water slide.
Cheetah Race allows you to speed down a water slide on a mat, racing your friends in the three other lanes. Other amenities include lazy rivers, raft rides and even a swim-up bar. Kalahari also provides surfing simulators and activity pools. Other activities include mini-golf, arcade games, craft-making, and scavenger hunts.
Kalahari also has an outdoor water park, which is open during the summer only.
Restaurants on the premises of Kalahari include Kahunaville and the Great Karoo Marketplace.
Less than a three-hour drive from Pittsburgh, Kalahari also offers lodging accommodations so that your family can experience a vacation close to home.
7000 Kalahari Drive
Sandusky, Ohio 44870
(877) 525-2427
kalahariresorts.com/oh
The enormous indoor water park at Great Wolf Lodge offers a four-story interactive tree house water fort, which is made up of 12 levels of soaking wet fun. Suspension bridges and cargo nets lead the way to water slides in the fort. Every few minutes, a warning bell chimes and 1,000 gallons of water pours from the tipping bucket at the top.
The lazy river allows guests to relax in a raft and let the current take them on a tour of the river. Big Foot Pass gives guests a challenge in agility as they jump from log to log in an effort to stay out of the water below. More slides, towers and pools are available for endless amounts of wet fun.
Other activities include arcade games and story time beneath the Clock Tower.
Lodging accommodations provide kid-friendly wolf dens, which are cave-themed secluded areas with bunk beds and televisions. The wolf dens are located within the family suites, ensuring adults can unwind on one of the queen-sized beds and watch television while the children are in their caves playing Nintendo. This destination is less than three hours from Pittsburgh, allowing you to take the family for a long weekend of water-filled fun.
4600 Milan Road
Sandusky, OH? 44870
(866) 257-5627?
greatwolf.com/sandusky/waterpark
A Caribbean-themed indoor water park, Castaway Bay gives visitors the atmosphere of an island paradise indoors. In the center of the Castaway Bay resort, a five-story structure made up of palm trees, huts and lagoons offers an adventure of wet fun. Attractions like the Tropical Twister, Tropic Tube Slides, in addition to Paradise Plunge and both wave and tide pools, offer entertainment that will keep your family occupied for hours. An arcade is also available on-site for when the children are dry and ready for more fun.
Lodging is available at Castaway Bay and rooms are available to accommodate families of all sizes. Less than three hours from Pittsburgh, this indoor water park makes for the perfect weekend getaway with your family without needing a flight to warm-weather states.
2001 Cleveland Road
Sandusky , Ohio 44870
(419) 627-2106
castawaybay.com/public/explore/waterpark/index.cfm
