Attractions

Schlitterbahn built the first surfing wave in New Braunfels and now has built the largest in America at South Padre Island.

Grab your bodyboard and experience the thrill of ocean-style body-boarding without having to paddle out into the Gulf of Mexico! The Boogie Bahn can even be rented out for private parties before or after normal park hours!

Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark's Lily Pad is an aqua blue wading pool that is the perfect spot for young children and families. The raining mushroom and frog slide will entice your young ones to frolic in the water.

The centerpiece of Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark is the Rio Aventura. It's both an attraction and a transportation system. In fact, it's the world's first Transportainment system. Rio Aventura has both slow flowing sections and whitewater rapids. Plus it will carry you from ride to ride and from beach to beach without ever having to get out of the water.

You enter at Rio Beach then float to the nearby Aquaveyor, a conveyor that carries you to the headwaters of the Rio Aventura. The first section of the river is a lazy float. If you wish you can detour off the river and onto two tube chutes: the Agua Blanca or Pirate's Plunge--both of which begin and end in the Rio Aventura. Or you can float into the in-water line for the Gale Force, Storm Chaser, or Sea Blaster uphill water coasters or you can step out of the river and climb to the start of the Tempest uphill water coaster. All of these rides also return you directly into the main stream of the Rio Aventura.

Just past the start of the Tempest, the Rio Aventura tumbles over a waterfall and the whitewater section of the river begins. Eventually the river calms down and you float through the rest of the park to Rio Beach where your adventure began.

Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark's signature landmark is the giant Sand Castle located in the middle of a large family water playground.

The Sand Castle towers five-stories above the park and is really a water funhouse filled with hundreds of hands-on water play elements, giant dumping sand pails, and slippery slides. Dozens of artisans and craftsmen worked many months building this fun and fanciful work of art.

The line for the Sea Blaster is actually a channel of water that leads from the Rio Aventura. Riders need only paddle from the river into the floating "queue" or waiting area to ride the Sea Blaster.

After a short conveyor lifts riders up the first hill, the water blaster of the Storm Chaser take over and power guests up hill and down. The Sea Blaster then returns its riders to the Rio Aventura.