For those seeking less thrilling pursuits, the park features elaborate flower gardens, a beer garden and an exciting Batman stunt show. Included in admission is a water theme park with wave pools, tube rides, water slides and raft float trips. It's unusual that landlocked Denver would have the nation's largest water theme park, Waterworld. With more than 40 attractions on 64 beautifully landscaped acres, the park includes two ocean-like wave pools, twisting water slides and whitewater adventures. In Denver, you're never far from nature and the city has a wonderful selection of zoos, aquariums and museums devoted to the study of Earth and the creatures who inhabit it.
Visitors follow two river journeys.
The Colorado River trip begins at 12,000 feet above sea level with waterfalls and trout streams, then flows down through red rock canyons to the Sea of Cortez. Along the way there are flash floods, green moray eels and exquisite schooling fish. The Kampar River journey also begins at 12,000 feet above sea level in the lush tropical rain forests of Sumatra and flows to a coral reef in Indonesia. Sumatran tigers, a mangrove forest and a variety of sharks highlight the adventure. With 3,500 animals, the Denver Zoo is the fourth most popular zoo in the nation based on paid admissions.