Where is the biggest slide in America?

Towering 135 feet tall, Daredevil's Peak waterslide is North America's tallest, and it's only for Royal Caribbean guests on their private island, Perfect Day at CocoCay. It's located in the separate admission water park called Thrill Waterpark.



As of 2026, the title for the tallest water slide in America belongs to "The Rise of Icarus" located at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. This monumental slide tower, which debuted in mid-2024, reaches a staggering height of 145 feet, narrowly beating out the "Thrillagascar" slide (142 ft) at DreamWorks Water Park in New Jersey. Riders on "The Rise of Icarus" experience a high-speed plummet that pays homage to the Greek myth, reaching significant velocities before splashing down. For those looking for the tallest "trapdoor" style slide, the "Jungle Jammer" in New Jersey still holds a record for that specific vertical-drop mechanism. In 2026, these "mega-towers" are part of a trend in American water parks to use height as a psychological thrill, often combining near-vertical drops with translucent "Aqualucent" tubing to give riders a disorienting sense of flying before they hit the splash pool at the bottom.

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WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. — Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park is known for their innovative nature. In late 2021, the Park announced America's first rotating water slide, Medusa's Slide Wheel.

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Oak Tree Mountain has officially opened the Oak Tree Mountain Slide. The slide is the longest in the US at 350ft long. With American theming, riders can choose from nine lanes and can enjoy one ride, three rides or enjoy a full hour of thrills on the slide.

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As for the world's tallest waterslide, it sits a continent away in Barra Do Pirai, Brazil, near Rio de Janeiro at the Aldeia das Aguas Park Resort. Named Kilimanjaro, after the world's largest free-standing mountain, the waterslide is 164 feet tall, according to the Water Slide Database.

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High Speed Slides - Riversport OKC. Experience the tallest dry slide complex in the United States! RIVERSPORT Adventures offers two 72-foot tall spiral slides, the Sky Slalom and new Sky Luge that will have you racing up to 22 miles per hour before you get to the bottom.

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Known and loved as the “Waterpark Capital of the World”, Wisconsin Dells is home to the largest concentration of indoor and outdoor waterparks on Earth — over 20 different parks.

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Located in Barra Do Pirai, Brazil, Kilimanjaro is the world's tallest waterslide opened in 2002. The water slide focuses on creating this thrill without safety as an expense.

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Walt Disney World isn't known for its thrills, but Summit Plummet is one of the world's tallest and fastest water slides. And it just may be the single most thrilling attraction at the Florida resort.

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The red slide is 33 meters high and it is the highest capsule slide in the world — and you can only find it exclusively at Aqualandia. Adrenaline, velocity, speed, and height are just some of the adjectives that our most daring guests mention after having enjoyed and felt this Aqualandia attraction for themselves.

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Where you'll find it: Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas. The Blaster is the Big Daddy of waterslides at sea. At 800 feet, it's the longest ever built on a cruise ship.

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