Soak City (Ontario Place)

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Soak City
Location Ontario, Canada Flag of Canada


Soak City is a waterpark, located in Ontario Place, in Canada.

[edit] Features

Entrance to the Waterplay portion of Soak City, which is a mini-waterpark within the larger Soak City waterpark. The giant tipping bucket is visible in the background.
Entrance to the Waterplay portion of Soak City, which is a mini-waterpark within the larger Soak City waterpark. The giant tipping bucket is visible in the background.

It includes a wide variety of water slides and other water features, including a giant tipping bucket that fills with water and tips over every 6 minutes. A bell sounds before it tips over, so people have time to get to the bucket to receive its blast of water.

[edit] Waterpark within a waterpark

Within soak city is a miniature waterplay park within the waterpark, designed as a beachlike space where people can relax on warm sunny days, and play in an extensive splash pad.

Interactive fluid user-interface: Large handwheels hydraulically control various interactive features of the park
Interactive fluid user-interface: Large handwheels hydraulically control various interactive features of the park

[edit] Interactive features

Many of the features are interactive and are controlled by user-operable valves. The valves are free-turning ball-valves that have been connected to large handwheels, so that the handwheels have no limit stops that might otherwise break or wear out from heavy usage. Each half rotation moves the valve through a full on-off-on or an off-on-off cycle.