America’s First Family of Waterparks

In 1966, along a stretch of a tree-lined, spring-fed river in the Texas Hill Country, Bob and Billye Henry and their three children began creating what would eventually become the world’s first water resort and the nation’s most popular summertime waterpark. Since what they were building had never been attempted before, the Henrys relied on their own vision of combining water fun and resort accommodations into a family destination.