St. Mary’s, Ont. quarry to welcome floating waterpark, installed by helicopter
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The St. Mary’s quarry will soon be home to the Super Splash floating waterpark, the first of its kind for the London, Ont., region.
While Londoners continue to battle the blazing heat amid a two-day heat warning, Canada’s largest swimming pool is gearing up to make a big splash with a new tourist attraction for the summer season.
The St. Mary’s quarry will soon be home to a floating waterpark, the first of its kind for the London region.
“We looked at various locations in southwestern Ontario and there was clearly a demand for this,” said Patrick Jackson, owner of Super Splash.
Opening June 25, in conjunction with the St. Mary’s quarry, the Super Splash Waterpark is known as “the ultimate playground,” according to their website.
Jackson and his wife started their business in 2017 after seeing a similar attraction in Kelowna.
“I was just sitting on the beach and thinking, ‘Wow, my kids are having such a great time on this. It’s different, challenging, gets them running and such a well-rounded activity for the summer,’” Jackson said.
The following year, Super Splash opened its first floating waterpark in Hamilton, where Jackson noticed the increasing abundance of out-of-town traffic.
“We were getting traffic as far away as Sarnia, London, Kitchener Stratford,” Jackson said. “We looked at the population base here in St. Mary’s and quite frankly, this is the only place where we can do something like this in southwestern Ontario,” Jackson said.
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