Summer never ends at one business near the intersection of New Hope Drive and Bagdad Road.
The Splash Shack, a cavernous indoor water park where the air temperature is always 82 degrees, opened in November 2018 after spouses Tom and Lauren Davis accumulated decades of experience working for outdoor water parks; in fact, Tom said he and Lauren met when they were both working at—where else?—a water park.
“It’s always been a dream of ours to own our own water park,” Tom said on a recent Saturday as dozens of kids swarmed around the slides. The cavernous 10,000-square-foot building holds a three-story playscape offering water slides—with heated water—and different types of water features. The structure is crowned by a huge metal bucket; every five minutes, the bucket dumps 1,000 gallons onto a terraced ledge that sends the water throughout the structure.
For safety reasons, children must be at least 3 feet tall to ride the slides. A splash pad off to the side of the structure is available to families with infants and smaller children, Tom said.Rows of Adirondack chairs allow parents to sit back and watch the fun from a dry area, and a concession stand sells drinks and snacks.
