Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' facts for kids

Blue Bayou Waterpark and Dixie Landin' are adjacent amusement parks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Blue Bayou is a water park and Dixie Landin' is a more traditional amusement park with thrill rides.

Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou has 20 attractions including a lazy river, a behemoth bowl, a quadruple aqualoop, a wave pool, a ProSlide Tornado, and many other slides. Over the years, it has been adding new attractions. The newest attraction is "Mambo", a quadruple aqualoop which opened in August 2012. For the 2012 season, it also updated its lazy river, bathhouses, food menus, and kids section. It is also known as "The Land of the Giants", as it is home to five of the world's largest water slides.

Attractions

• Mambo (World's Largest Aqualoop)
• Voodoo (World's Largest Dark Behemothbowl)
• Azuka (World's Largest Tornado Slide)
• Racers (World's Largest Water Racer)
• Conja' (World's Largest In-Line Water Slide)
• Mad Moccasins
• Pirate's Cove (A Children's Play Area)
• Flyin' Pirogue
• High Water
• Awesome Twosome
• Hurricane Bay (Wave pool)
• Lafitte's Plunge (A 90 Foot Free Fall Slide)
• Atchafalaya Run (formerly Lazy River)

Dixie Landin'

Dixie Landin' was built in 1999. Some of its rides came from the now defunct Fun Fair Park which was located at the intersection of Florida Boulevard and Airline Highway. It includes rides for all ages, including kiddie rides and thrill seeker rides. It currently has 27 attractions, including an S&S combo drop tower, a log flume, three roller coasters, and a variety of flat rides. The Drop Tower, Hot Shot, was originally the O2 Tower from Panama City Beach, Florida's now defunct Miracle Strip Amusement Park. In 2008, Hurricane Gustav destroyed the Coca-Cola concert stage, however, a new one was built in time for the 2009 season.

Attractions

• Barataria Pirate
• Black Widow (spider)
• Over the Rainbow
• Flyin' Tiger
• Gumbo YoYo
• Side Winder
• Jambayala
• Fouchon Flyer
• Zydeco Express (Music Express)
• The Splinter
• The Delta Crop Dusters
• Cajun Collision
• Grand Carousel
• Gasoline Alley
• Dixie Landin' Manchac Railroad
• Merry Go Round
• Zoom
• Drums of Fun
• Combination
• Old 99's

Roller coasters

• Ragin' Cajun
• Gilbeaux's Galaxi
• Loco-Loco

Hurricane Gustav

Hurricane Gustav caused moderate damage to both parks on September 1, 2008. Many trees were snapped, blown over, or uprooted. The Coca-Cola stage was destroyed, the awnings were blown off the Azuka, a portion of the Pirate's Cove roof was blown off, and a storage building alongside the Lazy River had its metal chimney knocked down onto the roof (it still remains lying on the roof, and was actually damaged again by Hurricane Isaac in 2012); the storage building contains the Lazy River's water flow pump. Multiple other attractions and buildings were affected. Luckily for Blue Bayou/Dixie Landin', the parks had just ended their season when the storm struck. They reopened in time for the 2009 season.