USA TODAY 10Best: Great Wolf Lodge named top 10 indoor water parks. Find one near Delaware

Anthony DiMattia, Delaware News Journal
Updated ·2 min read

Summer is almost here, so that means it's time to swim.

Luckily for you, one of the best indoor water parks is only a short drive away.

Great Wolf Lodge, the water park and hotel chain with multiple locations on the East Coast and other parts of the U.S., was selected as one of the best indoor water parks as part of the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.

The USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards highlight the very best in travel, food and drink, and lifestyle. Every week, USA TODAY 10Best invites a panel of industry experts to nominate their favorite points of interest and attractions across a wide range of categories. 10Best editors then vet these nominations and select a final set of nominees to be presented to the voting public for four weeks.

The indoor water park at an existing Great Wolf Lodge.
The indoor water park at an existing Great Wolf Lodge.

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USA TODAY 10Best indoor water parks

Great Wolf Lodge Resorts is a chain of indoor water park resorts located in the United States and Canada. The resorts' water parks include indoor and seasonal outdoor activities such as tube rides, wave pools, waterslides, hot tubs, and surfing simulators.

Here's where it ranked on the list:

1. Kalahari Resorts (Multiple locations)

2. Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark (Grand Prairie, Texas)

3. DreamWorks Water Park (East Rutherford, New Jersey)

4. Aquatopia Indoor Waterpark (Tannersville, Pennsylvania)

5. Great Wolf Lodge Resorts (Multiple locations)

6. Massanutten Indoor WaterPark (Massanutten, Virginia)

7. Splash Lagoon (Erie, Pennsylvania)

8. Timber Ridge Lodge & Waterpark (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin)

9. Tropic Falls at OWA (Foley, Alabama)

10. Island Waterpark at Showboat (Atlantic City, New Jersey

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Great Wolf Lodge locations near Delaware

Perryville, Maryland

Great Wolf Lodge Maryland opened in June 2023. This is Great Wolf's 20th resort and its largest with 700 family-friendly suites and a 126,000-square-foot indoor water park.

Address: 1240 Chesapeake Overlook Parkway, Perryville, Maryland

Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania

Great Wolf Lodge Pocono Mountains opened in 2005 in one of the East Coast’s most popular, traditional family vacation areas.

Address: 1 Great Wolf Drive, Scotrun, Pennsylvania

Williamsburg, Virginia

Built in 2005, this Great Wolf Lodge is located in America’s Historic Triangle of Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown. It was Great Wolf Resorts’ first East Coast location.

Address: 549 E. Rochambeau Drive, Williamsburg, Virginia

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