Best Water Park

Make a splash, a really big splash, at one of the 21 water parks located in the 19 square miles of resorts and megaparks in Wisconsin Dells, north of Madison. Each year it draws about 3 million people, folks who come to the Water Park Capital of the World for the extreme tubing, indoor surfing and more than 200 slides. A favorite? The Great Wolf Lodge’s Howlin’ Tornado, a whirling vortex with a heart-pounding, six-story vertical drop into a plunge pool.