Wild Island is a water park located off I-80 in the city of Sparks, Nevada. The park is the only one in the vicinity of the double city. Wild Island opened in June 1989 and has grown and expanded throughout its history. The park originally opened with only five attractions and two pools and has since added numerous other attractions. The park is usually open from the third weekend in May to the Fourth weekend in September giving its guests one of the longest water park seasons on the west coast. During the summer of 2013, the park hosted over 200,000 guests.
Attractions
Waterpark
Current Slides
Wild Island includes ten different water slide attractions scattered over four slide towers. All of the park's slide towers are located on the perimeter of the park with no more than three slides per tower. Each tower has its own theme. All slides are accessible by stairs and each attraction includes its proper riding instrument. Family Slide Tower
These slides are the tamest in the park.
Tortuga - A Pro-Slide PIPEline that is the longest slide in the park. This attraction includes a duel start basin.
Fire - A Pro-Slide TWISTER that flashes shades of red and white.
Ice - A Pro-Slide TWISTER that is half enclosed half open.
Speed Slide Tower
All slides are themed to a venomous animal.
Black Widow - A Pro-Slide PIPEline that resembles a widow's leg.
Red Viper - A Pro-Slide FREEfall that is five stories tall.
Scorpion - A Waterfun Products Sidewinder half pipe attraction.
Dragon Slide Tower
All slides are themed to medieval creatures.
Eye Of the Dragon- A Cannon Bowl 40 attraction that spins guests in a bowl structure. Commonly called the “Toilet Bowl” by local visitors.
Dragon's Tail- A Pro-slide TWISTER that is intertwined with the Eye of the Dragon attraction.
Racing Tower
The newest slide tower opened in 2012
Zulu Racer - A ProRACER that includes four adjacent lanes of racing.
Wild Island has four pools which are all filtered by UV light. These pools require little chlorine to maintain cleanliness. Wild Island was the first outdoor water park in North America to have a UV filtration system on all of its pools.
