Can’t wait for your next water slide fix? We’ve rounded up 16 of Australia’s biggest and best water parks for a family-friendly day out.
From Queensland and the Coffs Coast all the way up to Darwin, these are the must-slide attractions for kids across the country. It’s not all thrills and spills, either—these family-friendly water parks have great facilities for all ages, including some fun water play areas to satisfy the most junior family members.
Toddlers, teens and grown-ups alike will have a blast across these parks’ towering slides, tropical pools, lazy rivers and shady cabanas. If this sounds like your idea of paradise, dive into our ultimate list of Australia’s most epic water parks below!
1. Water park at the Big Banana Fun Park
Where: Coffs Harbour, North Coast, NSW
Open: Seasonal – from 14 September to 5 May 2025
It’s home to the biggest water park between Sydney and the Gold Coast—and the Big Banana Fun Park is soaring to even greater heights this year.
From Summer 2024, kids (and grown-ups) can race through over 170 metres of mirrored track on the park’s new Duelling Raft Slides. Starting from a four-storey platform, tandem riders zip through open and enclosed sections, complete with space-age lighting effects.
Kids from 110cm tall can ride with an adult, but there’s plenty here for all ages, including an aqua play area, mini slides and wading pool for under-threes. Thrill slides reaching up to 60km/h satisfy the need for speed—minus the crowds and extended queues at big city theme parks.
Once you’ve cooled off, there’s bunches more to discover at this iconic NSW North Coast attraction. Other Big Banana activities like mini golf, laser tag, bowling, ice skating and the downhill toboggan ride can all be bundled into great-value family passes.
2. Wet'n'Wild Gold Coast
Where: Oxenford, Gold Coast, Queensland
Open: Year-round (excluding Christmas Day and Anzac Day)
Experience Australia’s tallest water park slide tower and a huge splash zone at Wet’n’Wild on the Gold Coast! As one of the Gold Coast’s best family theme parks, thrill slides are the biggest drawcard here. The slide tower is 27 metres tall and features three heart-racing slides — the Kaboom!, Double Barrell and Super Ripper.
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It’s surrounded by the H2Oasis splash zone, with tipping buckets, water jets and more. There’s also the AquaLoop, which releases you via a trapdoor and sends you into a vertical free fall, and the Wet’n’Wild Junior precinct designed for younger adventurers.
3. Water park at BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park
Where: Helensvale, Gold Coast, Queensland
Open: Year-round (including public holidays)
The water park at BIG4 Gold Coast is the tallest play structure in any holiday park in the Southern Hemisphere.
It has more than 300 metres of slides, including a multi-lane body slide, four aqua tube slides, and a smaller slide for littlies. Not to mention the tipping bucket of all tipping buckets! Parents can look on from the comfort of a poolside cabana.
4. Z4K Water Park at Paradise Resort Gold Coast
Where: Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland
Open: Year-round
The award-winning Paradise Resort has kids’ activities galore, but in our opinion the water parks are the main attraction! The star of the show is the incredible three-level Z4K water park, which has a tipping bucket, water cannons and several slides.
There’s also a large lagoon-style pool with a gently sloping beach entry, a spa full of happy kids, and another water park for little ones.
5. BIG HUGE MEGA Waterslide Park at BIG4 Adventure Whitsunday Resort
Where: Airlie Beach, Queensland
Open: Year-round
With 13 colourful waterslides linked by bridges and stairways and a massive tipping bucket in an area the size of an Olympic swimming pool, this mega water park in Airlie Beach is nothing short of impressive!
There are also fun smaller features for toddlers in the shape of a frog and octopus, with sun loungers nearby for parents to relax while keeping an eye on their water babies.
6. Sunny's Aquaventure Park at BIG4 Easts Beach Holiday Park
Where: Kiama, South Coast, New South Wales
Open: Year-round
Sunny’s Aquaventure Park at BIG4 Easts Beach Kiama has something for children of all ages. Think multi-level platforms with two water slides and a giant tipping bucket, an ocean-themed splash pad with fun and interactive features, and a shaded water journey for babies and toddlers.
It’s set amidst beautifully landscaped gardens with a partially shaded sun lounge area for parents to relax and watch on while their offspring are having the time of their life!
7. Sammy's Lagoon at Tasman Holiday Parks - North Star
Where: Hastings Point, North Coast, New South Wales
Open: Year-round
Surrounded by tropical gardens and shaded areas, the giant water play area Sammy’s Adventure Lagoon at Tasman Holiday Parks – North Star has 65 interactive features, including mini slides and a colourful maze of water cannons.
There’s also a lagoon pool, wading pool and two eight-metre high tubular Super Slides that spiral through a rainbow of technicolour light features. Kids will also love the 600-litre bucket Big Dripper, which dumps a cascade of water every six minutes.
8. Water park at Rydges Resort Hunter Valley
Where: Lovedale, Hunter Valley, New South Wales
Open: Year-round
Keep the kids happy between winery visits with a stay at the Rydges Resort Hunter Valley, which boasts the only splash park in the region. It’s more than two storeys high with heated water for year-round use.
There’s an assortment of slides, water cannons, flumes and jets designed to entertain the whole family. The highlight is the berry bucket, which fills with 600 litres of water before emptying every few minutes in one enormous splash.
9. Castaway Bay Splash Zone at Sea World Gold Coast
Where: Main Beach, Gold Coast, Queensland
Open: Year-round (excluding Christmas Day)
Hop aboard a shipwreck-themed vessel and battle your way around the Battle Boats track – which features more than 80 water cannons – in Castaway Bay at Sea World. The fully accessible interactive splash zone The Reef has an array of water cannons, spouts and life-sized animal sculptures.
Neighbouring Sea World Resort also has a water park, where kids can dance and sing along to their favourite SpongeBob SquarePants songs under a musical water fountain during the the SpongeBob SplashBash LED light show each evening. Plus there’s an interactive sculpture themed around Dora the Explorer and friends.
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10. Raging Waters Sydney
Where: Prospect, Western Sydney, New South Wales
Open: Seasonal – from Saturday 1st November 2025
Brave some of the tallest and fastest water rides in the world at Raging Waters near Blacktown in western Sydney. It has more than 30 slides and attractions, including a whole zone dedicated to little adventurers called Raging Waters Jnr.
Don’t miss the 360Rush and the first-of-its-kind-slide Whirlwind, which takes riders on a thrilling 206-metre-long journey. And it’s got the best beach ever, with white sandy shores and no rips or sharks!
11. WhiteWater World
Where: Coomera, Gold Coast, Queensland
Open: Seasonal – from 13 September 2025
Dreamworld’s sister park, WhiteWater World, delivers some serious splash with the help of ground-breaking technology. Like one of only two LIM-powered rocket coasters in the world and the only eight-lane Octopus Racer in existence.
Ride into the centre of a surfer’s universe on Australia’s biggest funnel of fun, The Green Room, and go head-to-head with your mates on The Little Rippers and see who will be flushed out first! Or just play in Wiggle Bay or chill out in a tube at the Cave of Waves.
12. Water park at Oaks Sunshine Coast Oasis Resort
Where: Caloundra, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Open: Year-round
With water slides, fountains and interactive activities, the huge multi-level water play park at Oaks Sunshine Coast Resort will keep the youngsters entertained from dawn until dusk.
Parents can kick back with a cool drink and watch all the ‘splashtacular’ action from their sun lounge vantage point atop the timber leisure deck, grass picnic areas and brightly coloured party tents.
13. Oasis Springs at Gumbuya World Theme Park
Where: Tynong, Victoria
Open: Seasonal – spring and summer
Whether you’re taking the plunge on one of the eight water slides, soaking in the ambience with a drift along the 300 metre Lazy River, or getting deliriously drenched on Typhoon Island, Oasis Springs is bursting with family fun. Relax in heated rock pools, catch the perfect wave at Surf’s Up and be sure to try the state’s most impressive family wave pool. For the ultimate splash of style, book your own luxury cabana!
14. Jamberoo Action Park
Where: Jamberoo, South Coast, New South Wales
Open: Seasonal – from 27 September 2025 to 26 April 2026 (select dates)
Thrill-seekers should head straight to Jamberoo Action Park‘s Velocity Falls precinct, which is built into the side of a mountain. Inspired by the tentacles of a Blue-ringed Octopus with eight lanes of twisting, high-speed thrills, Octo Racer is a must for those with a competitive spirit.
Speed demons will also love The Stinger, based on the purple jellyfish. Little ones can play in shallow pools, enjoy mini water slides and dodge jets of water from large make-believe critters like Charlie the Croc, Percy the Pelican and Freddie Frog. Right in the middle of it all, The Settlers Shack is like a big aqua cubby house.
15. Adventure World Perth
Where: Bibra Lake, Perth, Western Australia
Open: Seasonal – from 27 September 2025 (select dates)
The only theme park in Perth, Adventure World has more than 25 rides and attractions to enjoy, including the giant pendulum swing ride Goliath, adrenaline pumping rollercoaster Abyss, and the longest, tallest and steepest water funnel slide on the planet, Kraken.
There’s also the Hawaiian resort-themed Kahuna Falls, and an interactive aqua playground with colourful spray loops, mini bucket tips and a mushroom rain tree in the enchanting Kingdom Falls for younger kids.
16. Darwin Waterfront Precinct
Where: Darwin, Northern Territory
Covering an area of 4,000 square metres, the stinger and crocodile-free Darwin Wave Lagoon rolls out 10 different wave patterns, from gentle swells to waves up to 1.2 metres high, perfect for boogie boarders. There is a 20-minute break in-between each cycle.
There’s also a shallow water play area for younger children, and you can swim, run, jump, flip, climb, bounce and slide your way through the four-metre-high floating inflatable obstacles at Darwin Aqua Park.
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Note: Information is correct at time of publishing, but may vary. Parks and individual attractions periodically close for maintenance or weather disruptions. Be sure to confirm availability for the date of your visit.
Opening image: Water park at the Big Banana Fun Park
