One waterpark anchors the Strand's present; another anchors its past. This guide covers both — the second strictly as history.

Myrtle Waves Water Park in Myrtle Beach! Full Tour of South Carolina's Largest Water Park!

Carmen and Brian

Carmen and Brian's full tour of Myrtle Waves — South Carolina's largest water park — with over 20 slides, a brand-new slide opening right around filming, and the big wave pool with its shaded umbrella areas. Their leaving note is the practical one: the cabanas were sold out. Book shade early.

Key takeaways
  • South Carolina's largest water park; 20+ slides per the tour
  • A new slide was opening as the film came out
  • Cabanas sell out — the film found them gone by leaving time

Myrtle Waves Review & Overview, Myrtle Beach Water Park | Largest Water Park in South Carolina!

Canobie Coaster

Canobie Coaster reviews South Carolina's largest water park slide by slide: Lazarus Entertainment's May-to-Labor-Day park a couple of miles back from the ocean off Route 17. Prices as filmed in 2021 — $35 general admission, twilight and week-long pass options, and $10 entry after 5pm on Friday Family Fun nights — plus combo tickets with sister park Wild Water & Wheels and Broadway Grand Prix. The Arooba Tooba bowl slide is the park's most popular (20–30 minute waits when everything else was a walk-on); hit it first.

Key takeaways
  • Slide-by-slide review of the state's largest water park
  • Prices are as filmed in 2021 — check current rates before going
  • Arooba Tooba, the bowl slide, draws the park's longest lines

Myrtle Waves and Broadway Grand Prix: A Family Business Since 1976 | Myrtle Moments

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

A Visit Myrtle Beach profile of the Lazarus Entertainment Group, the family behind Broadway Grand Prix: third-generation marketer Christina Lazarus Wachs tells how her grandfather started the Grand Prix in 1976 on the south end of Myrtle Beach so regular people could race go-karts, pioneering the family track industry — and how the business grew into today's Broadway Grand Prix (opened 2018) and Myrtle Waves Water Park, with a fourth generation already asking for a summer job.

Key takeaways
  • Broadway Grand Prix opened in 2018; the family's karting roots reach back to 1976
  • The founder's idea: let 'regular average Joes' race go-karts — a pioneer move in family amusements
  • Three generations of the Lazarus family currently work in the business

Myrtle Waves

South Carolina's largest waterpark (20-plus acres, 20-plus slides) gets a full tour and a slide-by-slide review: the Arooba Tooba bowl draws the longest lines — hit it first; cabanas sell out. Prices in the review are as filmed in 2021; check current rates. A Myrtle Moments profile tells the family story behind it — the Lazarus family, in the business since 1976, three generations working today. The destination's own 15-things countdown opens on Myrtle Waves too.

Across the boulevard

Splashes, Family Kingdom's water park across Ocean Boulevard, appears inside the amusement park's profile (watch content).

Myrtle Waves Water Park - MyrtleBeach.com

MyrtleBeach.com

MyrtleBeach.com's short Myrtle Waves profile: tube slides and body slides, the lazy river and the huge wave pool in the heart of Myrtle Beach. Loaded as watch content — the film carries no caption track.

Family Kingdom Amusement Park

MyrtleBeach.com

MyrtleBeach.com's short Family Kingdom profile: rides for all ages, carnival games and go-karts, with the Splashes water park across Ocean Boulevard. Loaded as watch content — the film carries no caption track.

Wild Water & Wheels - MyrtleBeach.com

MyrtleBeach.com

MyrtleBeach.com's 2019 profile of Wild Water & Wheels in its operating days — the Surfside Beach park as visitors knew it, with its water slides, wave pool, lazy river, go-karts, bumper boats and mini golf across the site. Kept as the operating-era record of a park that has since been demolished.

The lost park, as history

Wild Water & Wheels in Surfside Beach closed after the 2022 season and was demolished in 2023. Its two films here are the record: the 2019 operating-era profile, and the Boones walking the perimeter during demolition, slides gone, wave pool drained. They are included as the history of a place generations of visitors remember — not as a park you can visit.

Sources: the 8 videos on this page.

Watch: Myrtle Beach Waterparks Guide, guided

2 videos · summaries from the actual guides

DEMOLISHED! Wild Water & Wheels Waterpark | Surfside Beach | Another One Gone Forever! Land for sale

Beachin with the Boones

The Boones walk the perimeter of Wild Water & Wheels in August 2023 as demolition crews take the closed Surfside Beach park apart. The slides are already gone and the Wipe Out wave pool sits empty; the film mixes ground-level and drone views with the hosts' memories of bringing their own kids here, and notes the roughly 9-acre lot was listed for sale, to be subdivided. A farewell record of the park, filmed as it disappeared.

Key takeaways
  • Filmed during demolition in August 2023 — the park never reopened after the 2022 season
  • Slides removed and the wave pool drained when filmed
  • The roughly 9-acre site was listed for sale/subdivision

15 Things to do in Myrtle Beach

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

The official Visit Myrtle Beach countdown of 15 things you have to do on the Grand Strand, from iconic attractions to local hidden gems. It opens on the destination's defining fact — 60 miles of coastline — and works through water parks, shows and coastal views, with Myrtle Waves, South Carolina's largest water park at more than 20 acres, kicking off the list.

Key takeaways
  • Myrtle Beach means 60 miles of Grand Strand coastline
  • The countdown runs 15 experiences from water parks to live entertainment
  • Myrtle Waves is South Carolina's largest water park, covering more than 20 acres

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