List of the World’s Tallest Water Slides!

Current list of the tallest water slides on planet Earth. This unfinished list will be altered occasionally as new slides are to be entered and categorized from tallest downwards.

If you have any info on other tall water slides (preferably those taller than 90 feet/27 meters), please email me at marcus@waterslidedatabase.com or use the contact box located at the bottom of this page.

List updated: April 29, 2022

  • Location: Barra Do Pirai; Brazil
  • Water Park: Aldeia das Aguas Park Resort
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: 164 feet / 49 meters
  • Rough Speed: 56-60mph / 91km/h
  • Opened in 2002 (X)
  • Kilimanjaro is the current “world’s tallest water slide.” The slide holds the record for the highest drop height on a body slide. The slide utilizes the side of a hill to safely extend it further, and digs into the side of it to achieve its great drop height.

*2. Hurricane Tower

  • Location: Xianyang, China
  • Water Park: 88℃ Hot Spring Park
  • Type: Free-fall water slide
  • Height: 147.6 feet / 45 meters
  • Opened May 27, 2016 with the water park’s opening.
  • Water park is next door to Lewa Adventure amusement park.
  • A red free fall body slide, which shares a structure with two smaller free-fall body slides standing at 25 meters / 82 feet tall.
  • An early article (broken link) posted to the website contradicts the published height information, stating the tallest slide on the Hurricane Tower is 52 meters (170 feet) tall. For now, this list is relying on the information published on the “Rides” page of the website, which states 45 meters (147.6 feet) tall.
  • Update: The original website for the park seems to be offline, at least as of April 29, 2022.

3. Thrillagascar & Jungle Jammer

  • Location: East Rutherford, New Jersey; USA
  • Water Park: DreamWorks Water Park
  • Type: Dual trap-door free-fall slides
  • Height: 142 feet / 43.3 meters
  • Opened October 1, 2020!
  • Part of the newly (soft-opened) American Dream shopping mall in New Jersey (located just outside of New York City), which includes amenities like an indoor amusement park and indoor ski hill. It is to become “North America’s largest indoor water park.” The water park was originally slated to open on November 27, 2019 (source), then on March 19th, 2020, but was then postponed to October 1, 2020, due to the pandemic. (source)
  • Photo tweets by Arthur Levine (@AboutThemeParks):
  • Records broken:
    • World’s tallest indoor water slides.
    • World’s tallest trap door water slides.
    • North America’s tallest water slides.
  • POV video by Attraction Experience

4. Captain Spacemaker

  • Location: Jesolo, Venezia; Italy
  • Water Park: Aqualandia
  • Type: Freefall inline raft slide
  • Height: 137.8 feet / 42 meters
  • Rough Speed: 62mph / 100 km/h
  • Tallest water slide in Europe. This 4 person inline raft slide has an impressive 60 degree slope for it’s drop.
  • Update (May 5, 2019): Despite there being disputes of how tall the water slide is, the official website states it standing at 42m, which means the slide is indeed 138 feet tall. Because of this, the slide has been bumped up on the list.
  • POV video by TubeRides

5. Daredevil’s Peak

6. Insano

  • Location: Aquiraz; Brazil
  • Water Park: Beach Park
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: 134.5 feet / 41 meters
  • Rough Speed: 65mph / 105km/h

7. Meteor

  • Location: São Paulo; Brazil
  • Water Park: Wet’n Wild – São Paulo
  • Type: Trap-door free-fall slide
  • Height: 131 feet / 40 meters
  • Opened October, 2018! 70 degree slope.

8a. Ko’okiri Body Plunge

  • Location: Orlando, Florida; USA
  • Water Park: Volcano Bay
  • Type: Trap-door free-fall slide
  • Height: 125 feet / 38.1 meters
  • Opened May 25, 2017! 70 degree slope.
  • Source of height info
  • Opened May 25, 2017! A fully enclosed trap-door free fall water slide.
  • Location: Orlando, Florida; USA
  • Water Park: Volcano Bay
  • Type: Dual trap-door speed body slides
  • Height: 125 feet / 38.1 meters
  • Opened May 25, 2017! Two separate slides. Shares same structure as Ko’okiri Body Plunge. Both layouts consist of many sharp turns after an initial trap-door drop.
  • Source of height info
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Deep Water Dive at Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay

9. Deep Water Dive

  • Location: Louisville, Kentucky; USA
  • Water Park: Kentucky Kingdom and Hurricane Bay
  • Type: Trap-door free-fall slide
  • Height: 121 feet / 36.9 meters
  • 70 degree slope. Opened along with the amusement park’s reopening on May 24, 2014.
  • POV video
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Summit Plummet at Walt Disney World’s Blizzard Beach.
  • Location: Orlando, Florida; USA
  • Water Park: Walt Disney World’s Blizzard Beach
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: 120 feet / 36.6 meters
  • Rough Speed: 55mph / 89km/h

11. Everest

12a. Verti-GO

  • Location: Benidorm, Alicante; Spain
  • Water Park: Aqualandia
  • Type: Trap-door free-fall slide
  • Height: 108.3 feet / 33 meters
  • Opened in August 1, 2013! The tallest free-fall body slide in Europe. Utilizes a trap-door beginning.

12b. Le Géant

  • Location: Monteux; France
  • Water Park: Wave Island
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: 108.3 feet / 33 meters
  • Rough Speed: 49.7mph / 80km/h
  • Built by Polin!
  • The water park saw a name change in early 2018 from Splashworld to Wave Island, which included new attractions to the park. The park re-opens June 9, 2018. (source)
  • Location: Dubai; UAE
  • Water Park: Wild Wadi
  • Type: Trap-door body slide
  • Height: 105 feet / 32 meters
  • Rough Speed: 50mph / 80km/h
  • Jumeirah Sceirah has, since it’s original version, undergone a new form. Instead of its usual one flume three drop course, it now has two tunneled trap door flumes that have two drops.

13c. Xpirado

13d. FreeFall

  • Location: Quarteira, Portugal
  • Water Park: Aquashow Park
  • Type: Dual freefall body slides
  • Height: 105 feet / 32 meters
  • Length: 423.2 feet / 129 meters
  • Opened in 2015!

13e. El Abismo

14a. King Khajuna

  • Location: Salou, Tarragona; Spain
  • Water Park: PortAventura’s Aquatic Park
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: 102 feet / 31 meters
  • Rough Speed: 6 meters per second
  • Opened May 18, 2013. 55 degree slope.
  • Source 1, Source 2

14b. ZOOMbabwe

  • Location: Santa Claus, Indiana; USA
  • Water Park: Holiday World and Splashin’ Safari
  • Type: Family Raft Slide
  • Height: 102 feet / 31 meters
  • Location: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
  • Water Park: Noah’s Ark Water Park
  • Type: Trap-door aqualoop body slide
  • Height: “10 stories”
  • Note: Cannot yet confirm whether this is the world’s tallest aqualoop-type water slide.
  • Ride begins with trap-door freefall, followed by a large inclined loop element, and ends with an additional downward slope afterwards.
  • This water slide is being added with no ranking due to vague height statistics.
  • Location: Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
  • Water Park: Noah’s Ark Water Park
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: “10 stories”
  • This water slide is being added with no ranking due to vague height statistics.

15a. H2-Oh-No!

15b. Zero-G

  • Location: Vernon Township, New Jersey; USA
  • Water Park: Action Park
  • Type: Trap-door body slide
  • Height: 99 feet / 30 meters
  • Opened in July of 2014! Features two back-to-back flat loops after a drop capsule start.

16b. The Beast

  • Location: Calvia, Majorca; Spain
  • Water Park: Western Water Park
  • Type: Freefall body slide
  • Height: 98.4 feet / 30 Meters

*. WOW

  • Location: Benicàssim, Castellón; Spain
  • Water Park: Aquarama
  • Type: Trap-door enclosed body slide
  • Height: 98.4 feet / 30 meters
  • Capsule / trap-door slide start. Shares the same structure as The Devil’s Drop. An impressive 210 meters / 689 feet in length with many turns and helixes.
  • Video: Construction time-lapse and preview POV.
  • Opened June 19, 2021 (x), but was later closed for maintenance.
  • Update (March 12, 2022): The slide is no longer listed on the park’s website. Have not yet found confirmation on whether the side is still being worked on. The slide is being kept on this list for now, but the ranking is removed.
  • Location: Orlando, Florida; USA
  • Water Park: Walt Disney World’s Blizzard Beach
  • Type: Triple-dip body slide
  • Height: 90 feet / 27.4 meters
  • Sits below Summit Plummet freefall body slide.
  • Location: Shakopee, Minnesota; USA
  • Water Park: Valleyfair’s Soak City
  • Type: Dual freefall body slides
  • Height: 90 feet / 27.4 meters
  • Opened May 25, 2015!

If you have any info on other tall water slides (preferably those taller than 90 feet/27 meters), please email me at marcus@waterslidedatabase.com or use the contact box located below.