Rapids Water Park- Overview & Report

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On March 23rd, I visited Rapids Water Park, located in Riviera Beach, Florida.
Rapids is probably my favorite water park, as it has a HUGE slide selection, with great variety.
Rapids is operated by Premier Parks, who also operates Darien Lake. The park has slides for everybody, from Children's Play Structures, to Brain Drain, two Trap Door slides!
Below I'll share some photos, and what I think of the attractions at Rapids.
Big Red
Big Red is a ProSlide Bowl Slide. This is a very fun attraction, which can have either two or three riders. Riders fly up on the wall and experience some great forces.
 Big Red is a part of the HUGE slide tower at the park.
 
All in All, I really liked Big Red, and found it really fun!

Baby Blue
Baby Blue is another Pro-Bowl, but this one is a body slide. I preferred it to Big Red, as it felt a lot faster, and the drop into the pool was insane!

Big Thunder
Big Thunder is a ProSlide Tornado slide. I preferred this installation over Tornado at Six Flags New England, as this one has a slide portion before the funnel.
Big Thunder also had a very cool viewing area which looked directly into the funnel. 
I found Big Thunder to be very thrilling and a lot of fun!

Black Thunder
Black Thunder is the parks second ProSlide Tornado. This one is very unique, as it's enclosed!
Riding a Tornado in the dark was an amazing experience! This was one of my favorite slides at the park!

Pirates Plunge
Pirates Plunge is a set of yellow, twisted, body slides. 
I found these slides to be quite fun! They had the perfect length, and great twists and turns.

The Pirates Plunge Slides are part of the HUGE slide tower at the park, which houses more than 7 slides!

Brain Drain
Brain Drain is a pair of trapdoor slides, which are also located on the huge slide tower.
The first drop out of the capsule is very steep, and very intense.
The rest of the slides if all of twists and turns! It is the longest trap door slide I've ridden, and one of the longest body slides I've ridden.

Rapids Racer
This is the parks Mat Racer Slide, which I did not ride this time. It looks to be a pretty standard Mat Racer, and guests seemed to enjoy it.

Below are Miscellaneous Photos of the Children's Attractions & More!




 The park is also home to a Lazy River, Wave Pool, and multiple smaller children's attractions.


Thanks For Reading! Rapids is a GREAT water park, filled with some of my favorite water slides! If you're ever in the area, definitely visit this park!
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