Venessa Wilson, right, and her daughter Ava Wilson, 7, ride in a double tube as they float with others in the wave pool during the opening day of Cowabunga Bay in Henderson on Friday, July 4, 2014. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Beach Blanket Banzai at Cowabunga Bay water park (Courtesy)
Wild Surf at Cowabunga Bay water park (Courtesy)
Patrons relax as they float down the lazy river during the opening day of Cowabunga Bay in Henderson on Friday, July 4, 2014. After several delays the water park opened with 25 water slides and attractions. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Lifeguard Alanis Brea keeps her eyes on the guests during the opening day of Cowabunga Bay in Henderson on Friday, July 4, 2014. After several delays the water park opened with 25 water slides and attractions. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Patrons ride the swells with tubes in the wave pool during the opening day of Cowabunga Bay in Henderson on Friday, July 4, 2014. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Angelo Flores, 6, of Las Vegas is toppled over over by a wave during the opening day of Cowabunga Bay in Henderson on Friday, July 4, 2014. After several delays the water park opened with 25 water slides and attractions. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A lifeguard keeps his eyes on swimmers in the wave pool during the opening day of Cowabunga Bay in Henderson on Friday, July 4, 2014. After several delays the water park opened with 25 water slides and attractions. (David Becker/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Attention families of Las Vegas: Cowabunga Bay Water Park will open its second season of slide-y fun on March 28 with two new raft rides.
The people at the water park say the new “Wild Surf” is a four-person raft ride that drops you 60 feet “through an enclosed flume,” and then you enter “the swell of a mammoth man-made wave,” giving you hang-time and a landing in a pool.
The other new ride, “Beach Blanket Banzai,” will make you “splash over 600 feet of twists and turns,” with an overall 60-foot change in elevation.
Season passes cost $50-$90, and season-parking costs $35, which gets you access to 23 acres of lazy rivers, nine water slides, four pools, and a kids play area. It’s open March 28-April 5; the weekends of April 11-May 17; and daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
