Where is breakers water park

Gray DC Bureau. Latest Newscasts. Breakers Water Park closing down. Published: Mar. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest. Share on LinkedIn. Most Read. Border Patrol agent dies in line of duty in Tucson area. Parents call for resignation of Scottsdale school board president after dossier discovered. Wild Burro Trail. Hiking Trails. Ironwood Forest National Monument. Town Of Marana,tucson. Marana Heritage River Park. Crossroads at Silverbell District Park.

New Life Bible Fellowship. See all. Write a review Upload a photo. Most Recent. Very good. Not well managed or maintained. Read more. We visited here one time after moving to the area. What a disappointment. We spent most of our day in the cloudy wave pool. Would never take my family here again - ever. Have had two adult friends break their legs I'm not kidding on the slides not enough water at the end for impact.

Would feel safer in my own bath tub. I went to Breakers on July 13, yesterday. I have never been there before and am used to water parks in Southern California and Central California i. Clovis Lakes. First off the directions they give via their website -- is horrible.

Especially if you aren't going on the I We almost missed it, you think they would put a bigger sign. When you do get to the turn off, its a very old road that can barely qualify as asphault.

There are so many potholes and cracks that you have to drive slow. When we entered the park, around 1 PM, there was no one there and walked right through-- so much infact, that we forgot to pay because it wasn't clear where the booth was we thought it was the Snack Bar.

The park is run down and old. For the admission they could've re asphaulted the place. There is no shade in the area of the Snack Booth and the lockers look like they are from the 70's. They aren't very clear on where to get the lockers or tubes, but you buy them at the dinky gift shop with ugly clothes, left of entry. Then take the tube wristband to a farther building, which is right of the entry, past the Snack Bar. The lockers are next to the bathrooms.

The only thing that interested us was the wave pool. It was large and had some shade. There were some picnic tables around it which many people were lounging on.

At other water parks I have been to they announce when the waves start, but here they just start and they aren't very big. The slides look dull and were so unimpressive they hardly had any lines. The snack bar was over-priced and basically sold greasy food minus the chicken sandwhich and salad Breakers hours are 10 AM - 6 PM I ended up getting cheese fries and the boyfriend got a pretzel, and we sat in the no air-conditioning room behind the snack bar to eat.

I didn't even see any napkins available. If you are looking for a water park in the Tucson area bypass this sad excuse. It's not worth the drive gas or the money for a couple of slides and a wave pool.

Bathrooms filthy, water filthy, snack area in disrepair, food is all unhealthy. You have to fight for shade and seating. Covered with ants. We got to the park at opening to celebrate my son's 11th birthday. We had enough time to rent tubes, and the park was evacuated due to weather.

When we came in they acted like we were crazy and told us the park would be closed the rest of the day because there was too much water in the pools. The gave us a raincheck that is only good for the following day. We work and cannot make it, so essentially they stole our money. Breakers Water Park in Marana near Tucson was once one of the largest water parks in the state.

The wave pool in the park was among the largest in the United States. Despite many new attractions and the addition of an aquarium, the park went bankrupt in Today the former water park lies in ruins and is slowly being torn down.

Warning: Breakers Waterpark is not an abandoned Lost Place. The park is under surveillance and neighbors will call the police, as you can read below!

The metropolitan area of Tucson with more than one million inhabitants is barely 30 minutes away. Ideal conditions for such a park, and especially from the s and s you can find some archived pictures on the internet. Whole school classes went on excursions to the park in summer. Management seemed to concentrate mainly on events: Birthday parties, group and evening events could be booked, including catering.

In the Great Tucson Duck Race with 7, rubber ducks took place here, in the Southern Arizona Special Olympics Polar Plunge , a charity event during which participants jumped into the water in costume. In the new manager Steve Miklosi started to expand the attractions. The Splash Canyon water slide probably opened in , for the website listed a total of seven water slides Bonzai Pipelines and Splash Canyon.

In the season Riptide , consisting of two metre 52 feet high and very steep water slides, was opened. The slides can be seen in the following commercial:. The Rock Slide was opened in next to the Bonzai Pipelines and was equipped with light and sound effects.

At timestamp in the video you can see the accompanying decorations in the form of red guitars. For the season, high jumpers and stuntmen were hired for a High Dive Show :. In the ExplorAquarium was opened. This was an approximately 80 centimetre 33 inch deep tank in which visitors could swim with rays, eels and small sharks — for an additional charge.

Since there never seems to have been an official plan of the park, I created this 3D map from aerial photos and other information. However, some water slides seem to be missing. The last press release before the closure mentions eleven slides, I can only come up with nine? For many people the closure of the park in came unexpected, but actually there had been problems for a long time.

Operating costs kept rising constantly, it took about employees — mainly part-time workers like high school and university students — to keep the park running.