Waterpark installing new $400,000 slide

The Kentucky Splash Waterpark is getting its first major upgrade this year prior to the opening of the park for its ninth season Memorial Day weekend.

General Manager Diane Bruers said the components for the new slide were delivered Monday morning, and that assembly is expected to be complete by opening day.

“It is a double twisted slide. It twists all the way down and runs into a run out. It is a wet slide, but doesn’t put you into a pool of water,” she said. “I was excited just to see them show up this morning. It has been a long time coming.”

The new $400,000 slide will stand 30.6 feet tall and will include a pair of 212.1 feet long twisting slides.
The new attraction, which is still unnamed, will be located directly in front of the doors going into the park.
The new slide complex will be constructed on a new tower, which Bruers said she hopes will cut down on lines for the slides.

“I think it will help pull people in to have something new to do. We have needed to have something new for a few years now,” she said. “The tower will be set up so that in the future, another slide can come off of it and go into that pool there in the lazy river.”

Bruers said she is concentrating on getting this slide assembled and operational before thinking about a future one.

She noted city officials have been working for about two years trying to get this latest slide.

“There is a lot more to it than people think there is,” Bruers noted. “You have to find something that will work into your budget. We really wanted one of those big bowl slides where it swivels down like a toilet bowl, but that was $750,000 to $1 million. We just couldn’t afford it, so we had to find something that would work into the budget.

“It was hard, but we think we have come up with something good, and it will actually give them two slides instead of one.”