About
Laid-back family resort featuring an arcade, a spa and a water park with a wave pool and slides.
The water throughout Grand Bear Falls Indoor Waterpark's pools and attractions is generally heated to a comfortable temperature, typically maintained around 84 degrees Fahrenheit (approximately 29 degrees Celsius), ensuring a pleasant and warm experience for all guests.
What are people saying (AI review summary)? Reviews for the resort present a mixed, but largely negative, picture, primarily criticizing its dated condition and cleanliness. While some guests found the cabins spacious, certain rooms nice, and children enjoyed facilities like the lazy river, the overwhelming sentiment points to significant issues, especially within the water park. It's frequently described as 'disgusting' and 'filthy,' with black scum, mold, dirty windows, and undertreated water raising health concerns (one reviewer reported a sinus infection). Operational problems are common, with water slides, wave pools, and the lazy river often closed or not functional until late afternoon, attributed to understaffing. Other resort amenities, such as snack shacks and playgrounds, were also noted as closed or in disrepair. Staff interactions were inconsistent, ranging from unhelpful to inattentive. Although the arcade was reasonably priced and hiking trails were praised, many reviewers felt the resort was a 'shadow' of its former self, needing extensive updates and cleaning, and expressed reluctance to return.
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Good for Children
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Accepts Credit Cards
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Accessible Entrance
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Accessible Restroom
Reviews
Listing Reviews
October 8th, 2024Analise Potts
This place has so much potential, but is sorely missing the mark. A view of the waterpark room is available through dirty windows in the main lobby. All windows in the waterpark room were filthy.. Access is in the basement of the lodge. Upon exiting the elevator, a small arcade is available without an entry fee. You enter the waterpark room through a locker room with showers and toilets. The waterpark has plenty of chairs and tables around the edge. However, the waterpark itself is DISGUSTING. I've never seen a Waterpark this filthy. From the windows to the walls to the pools, the whole thing needs to be drained, power washed, scubbed down and disinfected. Black scum coats the pool floor and side while mold grows openly on the parks' walls. The heart-shaped hot tub has piles of sand on the floor and brown scuzzy grout, which is probably coated with 30 years worth of thousands of peoples dead sluffed skin. My legs started burning and itching within minutes of being in it and a dead beetle floated by, (I wouldn't have gone in except I was the guest of a friend and didn't want to be an ahole). This place closes at 9 and was packed at 8:00 pm on a Friday night. The volume was overwhelming; between the echos of screaming children, water dumping, waterfalls pouring and the beeping alarm of the wave pools, chatting in the crowded hot tub was difficult. There's a kiddy pool with a kiddy slide for babys, and a yellow slide into the wave pool that was packed with young kids. The wave pool connects to the lazy river through a double waterfall and a wooden staircase leads up to the two big slides. One is a body slide, and one uses an innertube. The body slide was painful to me, and forced a bunch of that nasty water up my nose, the innertube one was more enjoyable, but I still racked my ankle going down. These tube's go outside of the building but the ride down is mostly in the dark. It would be cool if you could see outside. These slides shoot you into a pool that feeds into the lazy river. The wristbands came with the purchase of our room and were good for Friday and Saturday. When we returned to the waterpark on Saturday at 11, nothing was on. The lazy river wasn't moving, the slides were closed, the water was cold and the wave pool wasn't in action. (There were still plenty of kids playing, running either way up and down around the lazy river but it wasn't as loud) The waterfalls were off and The hot tub had part of a bandaid in it. We learned that nothing gets turned on until 4 pm. On a Saturday! We live 3 hours away and weren't sticking around till then .. If we hadn't rushed down on friday night we wouldn't have gotten to experience anything other than the cruddy hot tub. The Waterpark is staffed with young teenagers on their phones, chatting with each other and drinking slushies. At least I hope that was slushy on the floor. I'm sure kids would love this place, but I wouldn't let a child in that water. Update: Two days later and I now have a sinus infection. Don't go in this cesspool.
July 29th, 2025Christina G
Everything is so dated that it gives off unclean. The water park definitely makes you feel like you are in a petri-dish and at risk for respiratory or bacterial infection from undertreated water. The lobby and rooms were so old that dirt had built up to create a layer on the carpet. The furniture in the rooms is so old and filthy you are hesitant to sit on the furniture.
April 14th, 2025Mike Reyes
Shadow of what I assume was once a decent resort. Fair priced arcade. Resort Staff wasn’t friendly but were helpful when needed. The pool was another story. No working water slides on a Saturday afternoon/evening nor all day Sunday is plain unacceptable. I asked the sole lifeguard on duty who said “no one wants to work and I can’t cover everything” as the reason the slides were down. They have a “cubbie” snack/drink shack adjacent to the pool which would’ve been nice but it was also closed the entire weekend. Non-working Ranger station dump bucket and rusty remnants of what would’ve been nice looking waterfalls adorn the area. The enchanted forest playground across the way has apparently been in closed for years. Breakfast Food at the on site restaurant was ok at best. I imagine 10-15 years ago this was a great spot but I doubt we’ll be returning. Too bad because the hiking was great.
April 14th, 2025Justin Vergason
Cabin was very spacious - plenty of room The swimming facility was clean, plenty of towels provided The children absolutely loved it! The lazy river was awesome! Definitely recommend making a reservation in advance. Spa with plenty of room for kids and adults A yellow slide for little ones and kids And a kid pool with a slide specifically for little ones. This place is great! Highly recommend
March 4th, 2025jessica Gomola
We stayed for the first time this past weekend its not bad for the price you pay. The water park could use a little updating and deep cleaning. Water wasn't too bad. Friday the chlorine smell has strong but Saturday and Sunday it was better. Rooms were nice. Dont go expecting great wolf lodge. The restaurant and Cafe food was good.
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
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| Monday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
| Thursday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
| Friday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
| Saturday | 7:00 AM – 7:30 PM |
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