Hawaiian Falls Water Park – Roanoke

Hawaiian Falls opened its fourth Dallas-Fort Worth area water park this summer in Roanoke.   My whole family was excited because Roanoke is close and we like water parks.   I purchased season tickets as soon as they became available and then waited for the park to open. For several weeks the Roanoke location only had a lazy river, but last week the entire park was opened including all but one of the large waterslides. We went today for the first time and had a ball. The park is larger than I expected.   My boys are ages 5, 8 and 10 so they wanted to do everything. We started in the wave pool which is wide and surprisingly wave-y.   The provided inter-tubes were plentiful and the boys ended up opting to just splash and swim without them.   The deepest part of the wave pool is almost 6 feet deep and it gradually shallows to a beach entry.   It seemed to us that the left side of the pool had bigger waves and that is where we hung out. We then headed over to the lazy river.   I was excited because I was thinking that we would all grab tubes and float for awhile after jumping in the waves. Not my boys. They wanted to go without tubes and RUN in the current. And this river isn’t very lazy to begin with. My older boys were fine in the 3 foot deep rapids, but I felt like I needed to be within arms reach of my 5 year old.   He was running with his head barely above water and certain points of the river are a bit slick on the bottom. After what seemed like an entire track meet, we decided to rest a little by trying the water slides. I like how the water slides are randomly placed on the big play spray structure.   I think it helps keep the lines down and certainly helps keep things cool.   At the top of the orange slide, I was actually cold at noon today! Speaking of the orange slide, Rhett(5) was the first to go down it.   I went down another slide that was next to it at the top.   And then I went on a hunt for the bottom of the orange slide.   Everywhere.   No orange slide bottom. After finding my other two boys and still without a 5 year old, I grilled a nearby lifeguard as to WHERE in the WORLD the orange slide ended. Turns out it ends in a bowl where you climb up a spiral staircase into the play structure. Oh. By the time I located the bowl with the spiral stairs, I found Rhett at the bottom of another slide.   He was completely unaware he was lost and had gone down another slide during my search. We ate lunch at the park and found the food to be decent and not out-of-control priced. What amazed me the most was that Hawaiian Falls does a really good job providing lots of chairs, tables, shade and misting.   I never had difficulty locating a chair to set my beach bag or a table for my boys to sit and eat.   Even though the park was busy, it seemed spacious. We spent 4 hours and headed home. Because the parking lot is a little bit removed from the park, they provide a shuttle.   It is nice not to have to walk endlessly across a hot parking lot with 3 soaking wet boys. I am so glad we have season tickets.   We will be treating Hawaiian Falls Roanoke as our summer home.

She is Dallas info:   Hawaiian Falls is located at 290 W Byron Nelson Blvd. in Roanoke, TX.   It is open daily through August 21 and then on the weekends through Labor Day.   Hours are 10:30 – 6:00 Saturday through Thursday and 10:30 – 8:00 on Friday.   Check the event calendar for activities like Maui Moms and Movie Night.   Admission is $23.99 for anyone 48 inches or taller and $16.99 for those shorter.   Season passes as $79.99 per person with discounts for buying more than 4 and Roanoke residents.   There are also day “family packs” available online.   They are on FB and can be followed on Twitter as @HFalls.