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Aquatics International

| October 01, 2005 | Mollenkamp, Becky | COPYRIGHT 2005 Hanley-Wood, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One word sums up Wisconsin Dells, Wis.--cold. temperature is below 50 degrees out of the year and the area has an of 30 inches. Though temperatures for a month or two in the summer, the area doesn't exactly seem like the ideal environment for a profitable waterpark resort. Yet every day--even when temperatures drop below zero--families flock to the Dells for tropical retreats. That's became the 18 waterpark resorts in the Dells figured out long ago how to beat Mother Nature: enclosures.

In fact, today, Wisconsin Dells boasts the highest concentration of indoor waterparks in the world.

But it wasn't always that way.

The area boomed during peak ...

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