Splashway Family Waterpark

Late this spring, we snagged discount tickets to Splashway Family Waterpark in Sheridan, Texas. We had never been to this water park before, but the price was right and we had a good feeling the kids would love it. We made it out to the water park in June. Splashway has a campground onsite, so we drove out on Friday afternoon to camp for the weekend. We camped Friday night, played at the water park all day Saturday, camped Saturday night, and then packed up to head home on Sunday morning. The restrooms for the campground are actually also used for the water park during the day, and they were great. By far the largest campground shower stalls I've ever seen! We had an amazing time at Splashway on Saturday. We loved the fact that although Lily wasn't QUITE tall enough for some of the bigger slides, they still allowed her to go down them (she was very close to the requirement and not a bit scared). Also, they have lifeguards at the bottom of the slides who will catch kids who need help when they come out the bottom of the slide. Dylan was a little uneasy about the water spraying on him at the top of the slides at first, but once he'd been down them a couple times we couldn't hardly get him to stop! We discovered that his life jacket was a little too bulky for him climbing the stairs and getting situated at the top of the slides. Once we took the life jacket off, he seemed to feel a lot more comfortable and able to move around. This was early in the summer, though, before he really gained his swimming pool confidence. Now he's grown into his life jacket more so it seems to fit better, and he's also a lot more of a daredevil around a pool of water than he was a couple months ago. Now when I take the kids to the pool by myself, he has to wear a safety floaty of some sort. He can't be trusted to wait for someone to be able to catch him before jumping in. And he does NOT know how to float! But like I said, in June at Splashway, he didn't need the life jacket and had more fun on the slides without it. The slides he could use did not have pools at the bottom anyway, only about 8" of water at the ends of the slides. Something we loved about Splashway was that there were slides of varying difficulty for all ages of kids, from itty bitty crawlers all the way up. There really were plenty of fun things for Dylan to do, as well as Lily and grownups too. It was not as wild as, say, Schlitterbahn, but it was definitely still fun for adults. The park was very well rounded. We were at the park from open to close, with a short break for lunch at our campsite. Everyone was thoroughly exhausted and very happy by the end of the day. We were so busy playing in the water that we didn't even have a chance to take very many pictures - we barely remembered to ask someone to take a couple of group pictures for us before we left for teh evening. We had so much fun - We'll definitely be back again next summer!