Blue Bayou Waterpark and Dixie Landin' are adjacent

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s in

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. Blue Bayou is a

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and Dixie Landin' is a dry 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

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, 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 marketed as "The Land of the Giants", with the park advertising five of its water slides as the world's largest of their types.

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

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's now defunct

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. In 2008,

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destroyed the Coca-Cola concert stage, however, a new one was built in time for the 2009 season.

Roller coasters

Amusement rides

Incidents

On June 9, 2006, a 2-year-old boy broke his arms and legs after falling at least from the “Over the Rainbow” ride. He was seated next to 3½-year-old sister but about from his mother at the time; his mother says she was told that the other adjacent seat was out of order. On July 11, 2010, around 4:00 p.m., a woman fell to her death from the now-defunct Xtreme roller coaster. On August 4, 2011, Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' was fined $25,295 by the U.S. Department of Labor for numerous labor violations. The park was allowing minors to work more than eight hours a day. 49 minors in the 14- to 15-year-old category were found to be subject to child labor provision violations.

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

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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.

References

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External links

Blue Bayou.comDixie Landin'.com
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