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Summer pool featuring slides plus swimming lessons, wading areas, and diving boards.
The lap pool and leisure pool at Last Chance Splash Waterpark are both heated to a comfortable 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
What are people saying (AI review summary)? This water park presents a mixed experience for visitors. Positive aspects include fun water slides (a fast green slide and a slower blue one), an enjoyable diving board (though only one is typically open), good value for families, spacious and clean locker rooms, and a potentially decent refreshment stand. However, significant downsides are frequently mentioned. Many patrons find the lifeguards to be overly strict, condescending, and authoritarian, enforcing arbitrary rules that detract from the fun and can target children. There are strict prohibitions against splashing, water play, and pool toys. The park is also criticized for frequent and frustrating closures due to perceived lightning, often leading to lost admission money as funds do not carry over. Additionally, the splash pad area is deemed unsafe and unsupervised for very young children, with older kids misusing water features, making it unsuitable for babies and toddlers.
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Amenities
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Good for Children
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Accessible Entrance
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Accessible Restroom
Reviews
Listing Reviews
August 11th, 2025Michel Maykuth
This is a fantastic pool with well-trained lifeguards as well as stellar management. They are looking out for everyone's safety as they should. The lifeguard pictured in Brody's review has worked at the pool for many years and would not ask someone to leave without good cause. I've never seen anyone get asked to vacate the premises, so that must say something about you and your children's behavior.
August 4th, 2025Britt M
Ok pool for what it is. They have 2 diving boards but can only use one at a time due to them being too close together. The website contradicts what is being allowed on site rules wise. No splashing, or water play allowed, so if your kids want to play around they can’t. No pool toys allowed. Heaven forbid a grey cloud head your way, they’ll immediately blow the whistle because they “see” lightening, and close for 30 minutes, which inevitably turns into the whole day being canceled. Which means even if you just entered 10 minutes prior, you’re out that money as it doesn’t carry over to another day due to them closing. My kids love the water slides, but other than that you’d have more freedom going to the creek or lake.
August 22nd, 2022Matthew COS
We visited last chance splash water park the first time two days before it closed this season, and we were quite impressed! It was fun! Me, my wife, and our girls, 9, 7, and 5 years old, had a great time on the slides, and also on the diving board. We wish the second board would have been open, but at least one was, and it was very fun to bounce off and dive deep. The green water slide, everyone said it hurt your back, but I barely felt any discomfort, and I went on it between 20-25 times. It was great because you have to be quite tall so there was no line, and you go FAST! The blue waterside was the one all the kids could go on but it was much slower and wound around. It’s still fun but much less interesting than the faster one. It took 5-10 minutes to get through the line too. As for the locker rooms, they were spacious and clean enough. The refreshments stand was out of most everything, as this was the next to last day of the year, and of course they don’t want to get stuck with a bunch of food, but the food that was there and the listings looked like it was a pretty good selection and reasonable prices as well. Our family of 5 could go there for $18.50, and we spent nearly 4 hours swimming. It’s a good value at that rate. They need to add more chairs in some of the emptier areas though, as there wasn’t much room left to sit. We will come again next year!
July 17th, 2025E N
The condescending, brusque, and authoritarian demeanor of the lifeguards at Last Chance Splashpark will suck the fun right out of the most glorious of summer afternoons. I really feel like the lifeguards resent their clients. If your kid has any semblance of personality, the lifeguards here will target your kid, and you. The lifeguards here will bully any and every patron for making “mistakes” that in no way shape or form are actual safety issues, but will power trip you and yours into following their idiosyncratic, wholly arbitrary, unposted, edicts until you have had enough and are sprinting for the exits.
July 1st, 2025Clancy Jones
I do not suggest bringing any 0-3 year olds to the splash pad. No supervision (from parents or life guards). The only working things are buckets that drop water and a spray gun that older children were purposefully spraying at my young son and niece (my son is 4 months old, niece less that a year). They were spraying anyone that tried to get to other parts of the park as well. Kindly asked them to stop, and they continued to spray us both again a minimum of 4 times. I was under the impression that the splash pad was for young kids, that was clearly not the case. It sucks because there is no other splash pads in Helena, it’s the only one and it’s not safe nor comfortable for babies. Huge bummer.
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | Closed |
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| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | Closed |
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