Raging Waves Water Park In Yorkville, IL #WelcomeToSummer

Being from Wisconsin, I always knew we could drive a couple of hours and stay in a super tourist town if we wanted water park fun. However, I didn’t know that Illinois’s largest waterpark was right in my backyard! Raging Waves Water Park is right here in Yorkville, IL (which is about an hour drive from my house). There are 45 acres of pure fun!

My kids were raring to go the morning we left. We packed up a bag of towels and off we went. Now, you can rent lockers at Raging Waves. However, I just carried the duffel bag around. When we go again, we are getting lockers. We never really needed the towels and our wallets were in there (and that just made me nervous).

I’ll be honest. This is how I like to spend my day at a water park. My kids, not so much. 🙂 Their first piece of business was to measure themselves to see what they could all go on:

We started off in Kangaroo Falls. These types of structures tend to be Will’s favorite. They kids ran around in here for over an hour.

They had plenty of food there too. Will was even able to get pizza for lunch and we had an ice cream snack later in the afternoon.  They were even able to work with Bill and mine diet (meat and veggies basically).  

If you go to Raging Waves, make sure you see the High Dive Show! The pirates come right into the audience and talk to you!

They also do quite a few amazing dives:

Yes, that second dive is from 80 ft in the air. However, the finale from the 4 pm show is the best. The kids totally loved that one of the pirates was set on fire:

We even checked out the pedal bikes:

Madison went down quite a few of the slides. However, this is the first time we went to water park and the kids actually liked the wave pool!

You literally can spend the entire day here. We found the prices very reasonable. Parking was free (unless you park close, and then it is $7). I also forgot to pack myself a shirt to change into after our day (yes, everyone else had all their clothes to change into except for me.) I was impressed that I was able to walk into the gift shop and buy a t-shirt for around $10. I didn’t feel like I was being price gourged and I cannot be the only person that this has happened to.

Raging Waves Waterpark is amazing. My family and I had so much fun that we will go back! You can literally go there from open to close and never be bored. We did the lazy river several times (no pics sorry!) and they have two huge sand beaches to play in also. Also, the water here is the same ph as your eyes. You don’t have to worry about your eyes being all red and stinging after the day is over. Another thing that Bill noticed is that they are heavy on the lifeguards (as he was a lifeguard himself back in the day). I love that the put an emphasis on safety. You also always saw staff walking around cleaning. It was one of the cleanest parks we’ve been to in a long time.

Now, I know you totally want to go check this place out. If you want to reach out to them on social media, here’s where you find them:

– Facebook
– Twitter
– Instagram

You also can find some great deals on the web.  Here are a few of the ones I found:

Ultimate Family Four Pack:  
Four Over 48? General Admission Tickets – $119.96
Four Tube Rentals – $20
Four Hot Dogs – $11.96
Four Regular Fountain Drinks – $11
One “Bucket O Fries – $6.49
Grand Total = $169.41

OR

Purchase them all together in our Ultimate Family Four Pack for $129.99!  This ONLINE ONLY deal saves you over 23%, and takes care of your tickets and lunch!  

You can also get from Costco 2 Day Passes & 2 Tube Rentals for $39.99!

Hope to see you there later this summer.  You know you’ve had a good day when this happens on the way home:

PS – Don’t use two year old spray sunscreen when you come here. You can guess why. 😉