Ultimate Fun Spots: Houston’s Top 10 Amusement Parks Ranked

There are also many thrilling amusement and theme parks located in Houston and best suitable for people of different ages. Houston has it all starting with small parks for kids to play and go for picnics to the large resort-like park facilities. Here is a list of the ten best amusement parks in Houston that I would recommend based on their thematic appeal, the type of rides they offer their intensity, and appropriateness for families as well as the overall experience at the park.

Top Six of the list of the best water parks in the United States.

Hurricane Harbor Splashtown has almost 50 different sights and activities for visitors to enjoy on the area of 45 acres, which is why this amusement park is considered the best one in Houston. Whether offering boisterous water slides or a calm waterway that winds around the park, this park blends the daring of a theme park and the zest of a water park. Some of the available rides include the Wahoo Racer, which is a six-lane water slide, Tsunami Surge- a fast water slide that has no equivalent, Pirates Plunge, Thunder Road, and many more. Families will have a great time here with dedicated playgrounds and dining passes to make it perfect to cool off at this park.

Typhoon Texas Waterpark

Typhoon Texas is the largest water park in Texas covering nearly 40 acres, high thrills are offered that include the Tidal Wave Pool, Half-Million Gallon Surf Lagoon, and numerous slides. Push your limit conquering the Tipsy Turtle maze or take ‘family friendly’ to the next level at the Caribbean Cooler line. Children can run wild at Lil Squirts Beach while those who seek thrills can experience falling from Pipeline Tower, which is around eight stories high at Typhoon Texas, all inspired by the tropical atmosphere.

The third museum is the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Featuring walk-through exhibit halls, life-size dinosaur skeletons, and the third-largest planetarium in America, the Houston Museum of Natural Science engages visitors in an almost amusement park-style journey of discovery and curiosity. Said to be the largest museum in the world, it has sections on gems and fossils, ancient Egyptian, chemistry, and a lot more that features STEM learning that is age-appropriate. Avoid the Omni Imax Theater or take a stroll at the Morian Hall of Paleontology, which is one of the largest paleo halls in the United States.

The fourth type of amusement park is the City Centre Amusement Park.

With the wave of fun city malls located right in the middle of Houston, City Centre Amusement Park brings heaps of entertainment even inside its small premises. Some of the attractions that you will find here include some thrilling rides like the Tower of Power and Rockstar, not to mention the spinning teacups for the kids. In between the rides, children can have fun at the Sky Trail Challenge ropes course or play at Adam’s Mount Rushmore-themed mini-golf. This indoor park can be flashy with lively lighting both in the daytime and at night.

Discovery Green

If you walk right in the middle of downtown Houston, there is an urban park like no other – Discovery Green, offering 12 acres of parkland complete with art and playgrounds, and family and fun. Come play instruments at the Soundwaves Installation, get lost at the interactive oak tree ring, and go for a thrilling plunge down the Kinder Ground Level Fountain for an urban splash park thrill. Some of the main features include ice skating in the winter and water features and miniature train touring in the summer.

Main Event Entertainment

Main Event Entertainment is a great combination of bowling, laser tag, arcade games, mini golf, rock climbing, and food all located in one very large building and temperature-controlled for slight weather changes. Feel the rush while challenging your friends in the Epic Obstacle Course right above the bowling lanes and feel the thrill of the gravity ropes course with more than 50 physical challenges. This is because Main Event comes with new products such as glow bowling and indoor roller-skating which make the plan even more exciting.

Zone 28 Park

As a play area for thrill-chasing Sugar Land inhabitants, Zone 28 Park is a rollercoaster of a fun amusement park, ninja courses, wall climbing, a mini golf course, and bungee trampoline activities with an extra-large wooden play structure. Thrill-seekers can thus ride on attractions such as the Stratosphere Ring of Fire, Cosmic Orbiter, and the Barnstormer Swing which has riders effectively zoom, whirl, and plunge around the park. Featuring many toddlers’ zones and other attractions for children, this park offers spectacular action for parents seeking to test their dexterity and bravery along with their children!

Ford Fiesta & Ford Ikon Reborn; The Fast Action Play Park Trampoline Arena

Children, from ages 3 to 18, can run and jump, quite literally, around the walls at the world’s biggest indoor trampoline park and ninja course in Houston. Featuring open jump spaces with angled trampoline walls, and floors plus foam pit jumping, this park enables the children to act as gymnasts and ninja warriors while exercising on the parkour-style obstacles. Develop cooperation and physical development covering features such as the Tumble Track, Foam Block Pit, Wipeout, and Reaction Wall, which characterize this soft play structure.

Plex Park and is fully functional with various amusements including fun chutes, Batting Cages, Mini Golf, Bumper Boats, Rock Climbing, and Go Karts all recorded at #9. Rides like the Crazy Submarine spinner, Frog Hopper jump tower, Red Baron planes ride as well as the Cyclone rollercoaster show that this park offers classic amusement excitement. The games area which is mainly wooden also contributes towards this factor together with the seasonal events such as the “Christmas in the Park” from Fun Plex.

Galaxy Kemah Boardwalk

Situated on Kemah’s exciting waterfront Boardwalk, Galaxy Kemah Adventure Park fits the bill with regards to providing delectable seaside amusement. However, there are more than serene carousel rides over the gulf, although I enjoyed them at Galaxy: there is more excitement such as Greezed Lightnin’ spinning rollercoaster that was spinning faster and, at the same time, there is a Boardwalk Bullet drop tower that lifts you 20 stories and gives you 360-degree views before free-falling back to the bottom. It even has the traditional favorite midway games and restaurants with breathtaking views; those make the Galaxy Kemah perfect for an exciting day by the bay.

From miniature playgrounds to mega theme parks, and from simple to thrilling rides, Houston is stocked full of the most exciting attractions for all sorts of tourists, adventurers, and children. Regarding this, irrespective of the type of amusement that one is interested in, Houston has a variety of entertaining parks where families and friends can have some fun, have some splice, get some adrenaline rush, and have some quality time.