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        While best known for ocean swimming at its shore beaches, New Jersey has been the site for some notable man-made pools. In 1912, the Palisades Amusement Park in Fort Lee added a pool 400 by 600 feet in dimension which it promoted as the world's largest salt-water swimming pool. Its claim, however, was subsequently disputed since the pool used water pumped from the Hudson River, with a saline content below that of ocean waters. The Palisades Park pool also was one of the first to generate artificial wave action, with large mechanized pontoons moving up and down as they rotated, creating a one-foot wave in the pool.

        The Palisades Pool also became the center for one of New Jersey's most significant civil rights protests during the summers of 1946 through 1948, when African Americans supported by white sympathizers attempted to gain admission to the pool in defiance of its whites-only membership policy. These efforts later provoked litigation by the American Civil Rights Union and demonstrations at the Park's gates organized by the Congress of Racial Equality, with the Park finally opening the pool to African Americans in 1949. Reports persisted, however, that even in later years the Park management discouraged integration through informal means of making minorities feel unwelcome. The pool, along with the amusement park, closed in 1971.

       Another large pool in the state, the Monte Carlo Pool in Asbury Park, was located across the street from the beach with an underground tunnel allowing bathers direct access to walk through the tunnel from the pool to the beach. The Monte Carlo's water supply was piped from the ocean and treated through filters.  Although smaller than the Palisades Park pool at 180 by 200 feet, it also was promoted as the world's "largest saltwater pool" given the questions over whether the water taken from the Hudson for the Palisades pool truly qualified as "salt."

       Apart from these large public pools, the surge in post-World War II suburban housing also saw a proliferation of pool-building by communities and private swim clubs and by builders as backyard amenities in upscale homes. 

       In the summer of 2023, what was claimed to be the largest waterpark in the world--The Island Waterpark at Showboat-- was opened in the Showboat Hotel in Atlantic City as part of the redevelopment of the former casino-hotel into a more diversified entertainment attraction without gambling.

*  Places to Swim in New Jersey, US Masters Swimming (pools with organized adult swimming with available coaching)
*  New Jersey's Best Family Swimming Pools, mommypoppins.com

Formerly Action Park, part of larger Mountain Creek ski, hotel and housing development. Features Zero G, world’s tallest and only double-looping thrill slide where riders enter enclosed launch capsule, then plunging into a translucent flume spiraling through two full loops before splashdown. Other rides include Colorado Rapids whitewater raft trip and High Tide Wavepool. Owned since 2010 by group led by Eugene Mulvihill, original owner of property when waterpark opened 1978 as attraction to supplement visits during off-season closures of adjacent Great Gorge ski area.


Family amusement and water park oriented toward younger children. Amusement section includes Civil War locomotive ride, World War II cockpit, hayride and talking scarecrow. Pirate's Cove water park includes nation's largest wading pool; pirate-themed water slides and rides; and water playground. Indoor arcade with pin-ball, skee-ball and video games. Picnic area.

Owned and operated by Township of East Brunswick, but open also to nonresidents. Two large pools for swimming, water slides, winding ‘lazy river’ and activity and recreational pools. Splash pad with sculpture sprinklers to spray down bathers. Concession stand, basketball and volleyball courts.. Annual memberships and day passes.
  • Sahara Sam's Oasis Indoor & Outdoor Water Park (West Berlin)

    Opened in 2009, owned by Girlya Family, which also owns adjacent Diggerland construction themed park. Open year-round, free-standing, indoor water park with 58,000 square feet of aquatic and arcade attractions including body slide, family raft ride, lazy river and tree fort, also offers water basketball. Lizard Lagoon toddler area. Outdoor Beach Club with splash pad and wave pool. Most recent expansion 2-acre, $6.5 million dollar outdoor facility with 25 meter leisure pool, children’s splash park, full service bar, sand volleyball courts, 12,000 square foot wave pool and Nine Mile 350-foot tube slide which starts inside building and snakes around its exterior.


Situated on 200-acre property on 20-acre Tomahawk Lake with New Jersey's largest white sand beach, site also  includes softball field, horse-shoe and volleyball areas, picnic area with over 800 tables, miniature golf course and, outdoor beer garden with live music on weekends.. Attractions include six water slides  around lake, including 500-foot tube ride "The Black Snake," and 610-foot "Apache Plunge" 4-person flume raft ride. Lakeside 20-passenger paddle wheeler canoes, paddle, swan and bumper boating. Kiddie area "Papoose Land" allows youngsters to play on water slides, climb on  giant turtles and frogs, paddle around in kiddie canoes and bumper boats. 2016 season marks 64th year of operation.
Indoor water park open year-round. Under same ownership as Hotel ML 281-room hotel and conference center. Attractions included Coconut Grove Lazy River inner tube 300-foot cruise; giant whirlpools soaking pool; 1,000-foot water slide; adult-only warm water therapy  indoor/outdoor spa; .Sharks Slam 4-story high 300-foot slide; interactive play area with 150 feet of water sliding; and adult-only warm water therapy  indoor/outdoor spa. Key Quest Arcade features video and boardwalk games.

Located on 45 acres within Six Flags Great Adventure Theme Park. Features Tornado 1,800-foot tunnel slide; Hurricane Mountain 5-story tube and toboggan slide; Blue Lagoon wave pool; Taak It Eez Ee Creek river glide with waterfalls and rapids. Opened 2016 Caribbean Cove interactive water play center with spray nozzles, jets, valves, water guns, action slide and two-story tipping bucket.


Waterpark built 1996 as supplement to existing Keansburg Amusement Park opened 1931 on site of dock of Keansburg Steamboat Co. service to Battery Park in Manhattan. Offers 18 water slides along with spa pools, a lazy river and separate children's play areas.


Features Pirates Cove with shallow-water attractions for younger children; Serpentine Body Slide rising eight stories; Tube Journey single or double tube slide; Splash Down Falls steep body single or double tube slide into pool; Gillian's Pier Log Flume roller coaster; Lazy River through winding turns and waterfalls. Formerly owned by Gillian family, which opened amusement park in 1929 with Ferris wheel and merry-go-round, ownership restructured 2014  were the main attractions of an amusement center that was constructed after a 1928 boardwalk fire.

One of largest amusement complexes in state, includes three amusement piers and two beachfront waterparks. Family owned and operated since 1969, currently run by 2nd generation brothers, Will and Jack Morey. Morey’s Piers has over 100 rides and attractions. It includes three amusement piers and two beachfront waterparks. Raging Waters Waterpark pursues shipwreck theme, kiddie play areas at Shipwreck Shoals and Camp KidTastrophe along with speed slides, Shotgun Falls and an activity pool. Ocean Oasis Water Park and Beach Club with Cliff Dive slide and 5-story drop; six-lane WipeOut! slide race course; Lazy River tube slide. Bonsai Beach interactive children's play area with water jets, climbing ropes and slides.

Opened July 2023 after reported $100 million renovation in Showboat Hotel (formerly a casino-hotel), park features 11 water slides, 30-foot-tall tree house, a lazy river, a surf simulator and nightlife entertainment, covers 120,000 square feet and holds more than 317,000 gallons of water, also has glass retractable roof allowing opening to sunshine during warmer months and closure during rainy days and colder weather. Also includes adult-only features such as six bars, a DJ area and an adult-only pool with swim-up bar with cabanas, Peloton bikes and workspaces. Summer admission rates for water park start at $89 for daytime general admission; twilight admission starts at $69 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.; all-access VIP admission starts at $119, which includes admission into exclusive adult-only section. Hotel guests at Showboat allowed one-hour early access to water park before it opens to public.
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