Slick City Action Park

About

Buy your ticket for this park and no other one. Slick City's own terms state that an online purchase cannot be transferred to a different location, and a visitor who arrived with a pass and a signed waiver from the Lakewood branch found that out at the counter. The same visitor is worth hearing on the other point: this park is a good deal smaller than Lakewood and the slide list does not match it.

What it does have is slides, more than a dozen, and very little else. A four-lane racing chute, a bowl that spins you before it lets go, a half-pipe you surf back and forth, a serpentine tunnel and the chain's signature launch, plus air-cushioned courts for dodgeball and basketball. A child who wants exactly that will get an afternoon out of it. A child who wants variety will be finished early.

The age rules are strict and worth reading before you pay. The slides start at four, and a child of three or under is on a junior ticket that covers two junior slides and the air-cushioned courts and nothing else, which is a thin afternoon if the older sibling is the reason you drove out. Everyone who slides wears the park's own socks, bought there: grip socks from other play centers are turned away at the door, so the pair in your bag will not save you anything.