Blue Bayou Waterpark and Dixie Landin’ are adjacent amusement park

Amusement park

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Louisiana

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. Blue Bayou is a water park

Water park

A waterpark is an amusement park that features waterplay areas, such as water slides, splash pads, spraygrounds , lazy rivers, or other recreational bathing, swimming, and barefooting environments...

 and Dixie Landin' is a more traditional amusement park with thrill rides.

About Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou has 20 attractions including a lazy river, a behemoth bowl, a wave pool, a proslide tornado, and many other slides. Over the years, Blue Bayou has been adding new attractions. The newest attraction is Voodoo, an enclosed behemoth bowl which opened in 2008. Blue Bayou also refurbished two older slides the same year. Blue Bayou is also known as "The Land of the Giants."

Waterpark Attractions

• Voodoo (World's Largest Dark Behemothbowl)
• Azuka (World's Largest Tornado Slide)
• Racers (World's Largest Water Racer)
• Conja' (Worlds 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
• Lazy River

About Dixie Landin'

Dixie Landin' was built in 1999. Some of its rides came from the now defunct Family Fun Fair Park which was located on Airline Highway. Dixie Landin' includes rides for all ages, including kiddie rides and thrill seeker rides. Dixie Landin' currently has 27 attractions, including an S&S combo drop tower, a log flume, four roller coasters and a variety of flat rides. The Drop Tower, Hot Shot was originally O2 Tower from the now defunct Miracle Strip Amusement Park

Miracle Strip Amusement Park

Miracle Strip Amusement Park was a popular local theme park built in 1963 in Panama City Beach, Florida, across the street from the beach. It featured several rides that were uniquely spectacular by placing them within enclosed spaces and adding pounding music and lighting effects, in addition to...

. In 2008, Hurricane Gustav destroyed the Coca-Cola concert stage, however, a new stage was built in time for the 2009 season. In the next 4 or 5 years the Army Corps of Engineers will help expand the theme park to make room for additional rides and a campground.

Attractions

• Candie ooh la la
• Barataria Pirate
• Black Widow (spider)
• Over the Rainbow
• Flyin' Tigers
• Gumbo YoYo
• Hot Shot (Combo Drop Tower)
• Sidewider
• Jambayala
  Twist (ride)
  The Twist, also known as the Twister, Cyclone, Sizzler, Scrambler, Merry Mixer, Jambalaya, or Grasscutter is an amusement ride in which suspended riders spinning in cars experience the illusion that they will crash into other suspended, spinning cars. Riders are seated in small carriages clustered...
  
  
• Fouchon Flyer
• The Giant Wheel
• Zydeco Express (Music Express)
• The Splinter
• The Delta Crop Dusters
• Cajun Collision
• Grand Carousel
• Gasoline Alley
• Dixe Landin' Manchac Railroad
• Merry Go Round
• Zoom
• Drums of Fun
• Combination
• Old 99's

Roller Coasters

• Rajun Cajun
  Steamin' Demon
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• Xtreme-spinning coaster

• Galaxi
  Galaxi
  Galaxi is the common name of a series of mass-produced roller coasters manufactured primarily by Italian company S.D.C, which went bankrupt in 1993...
  
  
• Loco-Loco
  Loco-Loco
  Loco-Loco is the newest roller coaster at Dixie Landin amusement park in Baton Rouge, Louisiana....
  
  

Incidents

On June 6, 2006, two-year-old Kobe Carter fell from the Over The Rainbow ride vehicle and sustained moderate injuries.

On July 11, 2010, a Layette women, 21-year-old Lindsay Zeno, fell approximately 30 feet off the Xtreme roller coaster. She died later that same day.

Future Expansion Of Dixie Landin'

Dixie Landin' has plans of expanding. They plan to add a campground, a new roller coaster, and more flat rides. They filed with the U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers. As of November 2011, it was reported the expansion plans to rezone 65 acres for heavy commercial use to further expand the park was denied by the metro city council.

Hurricane Gustav

Hurricane Gustav caused major damage to the amusement park. Many trees were snapped/uprooted. The Coca-Cola stage was destroyed. The awnings were blown off the "proslide tornado." A part of the Pirate's Cove roof was blown off and blown a long distance, It landed on a fence a few yards away causing it to fall down. An outbuilding was flipped over and completely obliterated causing debris to be scattered everywhere. Light poles were blown down. The roof of the Musik Express was torn off. Benches were tossed around. Metal roofs from other buildings were torn off and scattered around the amusement park. Windows were also blown out of some buildings. Luckily, when the storm hit, Blue Bayou and Dixie Landin' were at their closing point for the year. The damages were still horrible but they were replaceable things that were up and fixed for the next upcoming summer.