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Sunscreen was advised - as were bathing suits - when a wave of media was unleashed at White Water Bay to capture the phenomenon's splashy headlines firsthand.
White Water Bay, Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Waterpark, opened last weekend for endless days of summer as the first indoor water park and hotel combination in New York state. The 38,000-square-foot water facility is Six Flags Inc.'s latest endeavor in the area.
"Today is a magical day, an exciting day," said Mark Shapiro, Six Flags' president and CEO. "It's symbolic of the future" and where the company is headed with its ideas.
Six Flags is banking on the hotel and water park becoming a year-round destination, offering the concept of 365 beach days per year to all - from foliage followers and ski bums who visit the region in the typical off-season, to those who call the area home.
Built inside an Adirondack camp-style hotel, White Water Bay is the main draw, with eight primary water attractions. The hotel also includes 200 suites of varying sizes, the "Serenity at the Lodge" health spa, a 325-person ballroom, several conference rooms, the Starlight Arcade and a fitness center.
White Water Bay's front-and-center feature, the Tall Timbers Treehouse, calls to be explored. The treehouse mezzanine features a multi-level maze and playground with water pluming, jetting, blasting and dripping from all types of fountains, swivel curtains and water wheels. Small water slides swirl around the nearly 160 interactive water features and activities, and high atop the treehouse, a giant wooden bucket slowly fills to max capacity, only to empty gallons of water onto revelers below.
Boogie Bear Surf - which had all the media wishing they'd brought their bathing suits after all - is the first "FlowRider" in the Northeast. It provides a continuous sheet of water, simulating a wave, for body boarding or surfing, all in an area less than three inches deep. Grab an inflatable tube and roll on down the Tak-it-eesi Creek for what's billed as a "leisurely adventure."
The creek winds around the treehouse and flows right into Lott-a-Watta Bay, an open lagoon that's as close as you're going to get to an old-fashioned swimming pool.
Tip-A-Kanu Beach is White Water Bay's answer to a kiddie pool. Designed for tots, the area features sprinklers, slides and a mini beach. For those who need a break from the kiddie action and happen to be 18 and older, Soakum Springs provides a relaxing warm water spa, slightly removed from White Water Bay and the hype of the treehouse.
In the way of water slides, the park offers the Avalanche, a group slide with a raft holding up to four people as they simulate white water rafting and rush down a 382-foot path ending in a 41-foot drop. Glacier Run and Snow Shoe Falls are two single-rider slides, one in complete darkness, that take riders looping and curling through tubes that reach out of the building, also ending with a 41-foot drop.
Lounging areas and plenty of boardwalk refreshments are available within White Water Bay. And when the sun is shining, sometimes even if it's not, the water park's roof of transparent Texlon allows guests to toast themselves year-round.
Designed with rustic details to catch the flavor of the Adirondack area, the hotel's warm, wooden interior with exposed beams and Native American influences evoke a sense of log cabin coziness. Suites are detailed with local art of the mountains and rustic furniture. In the hotel lobby, an enormous Alaskan moose head presides over the two-story, gable-roofed room, inviting guests to lounge near a full-wall stone fireplace.
The vacation lodge theme of the hotel amenities is ideal for guests looking to escape into Adirondack luxury - and then grab those bathing suits for
Lot-Sa-Fun in the waterpark.

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