Schlitterbahn® Waterpark Resort            
New Braunfels, Texas                        
Schlitterbahn FUNfacts                 

 

• Schlitterbahn West has 16,000 thousand black inner tubes to choose from—in all sizes and shapes. Schlitterbahn East only uses colored vinyl tubes because the chlorinated water causes black tubes to make marks on the walls.

• Schlitterbahn Waterpark has been voted “The World’s Best Waterpark” for nine consecutive years in a poll of park fans conducted by Amusement Today.

• Schlitterbahn guests consume about 45,000 turkey legs and 90,000 sausages-on-a-stick each season. Add that to roughly 10 tons of hamburgers, 22 tons of chicken strips and 7 miles of foot-long corn dogs and you may wonder how many packets of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise guests need: 1 million!

• Since 1995, Schlitterbahn has reigned as the nation’s most popular seasonal waterpark, only topped in attendance by year-round waterparks.

• Schlitterbahn pumps 72-degree spring water from the Comal River through some of the rides in the main park. The water is pumped from one end of the park, circulated through several rides in Schlitterbahn West, and then flows back into the Comal River.

• Our six-story Master Blaster uphill water coaster was voted “The World’s Best Waterpark Ride” for the ninth time in 2006. It works by using state-of-the art technology to blast riders uphill on high velocity streams of jetted water. The 1,000-foot-long ride takes riders through six uphill sections and features a coaster-style 36-degree, 27-foot drop.

Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort has a long history of firsts, including:

• The first swim-up refreshment bar was introduced in 1980.

• The first family wave pool with maximum depth of four feet opened in 1989.

• The world’s first fantasy-themed, shallow children’s water playground, Polywog Pond, designed specifically for young children, opened in 1989. Today the park has six water playgrounds.

• The first professional competition on a man-made wave took place in 1992 on the Boogie Bahn surf ride.

• The world’s first uphill water coaster, Dragon Blaster, created a world-wide buzz in 1994.The park now has a Family Blaster, designed for multi-rider rafts, and a six-story version called Master Blaster® that opened in 1996.

• The first Torrent River® which offers customizable, computer-controlled waves also opened in 1996 in the Blastenhoff section of Schlitterbahn East.

• The first USA Triathlon-sanctioned Kids’ triathlon that takes place in and around a theme park occurred in 2004.