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Awards List

2018 Golden Ticket Award from Amusement Today/Schlitterbahn New Braunfels voted World’s Best Waterpark in annual poll of amusement park fans. 2017 Golden

History Highlights

History Highlights 1966 The Henry family moves to New Braunfels and takes overs Camp Landa, a small resort

Schlitterbahn Marketing History

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Historic Schlitterbahn Images

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Narrative History

Narrative History In 1966 along a stretch of a tree-lined, spring-fed river in the Texas Hill Country, Bob and Billye Henry and

Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts

In 1966, along a stretch of a tree-lined, spring-fed river on the edge of 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 Henry's relied on their own vision of combining water fun and resort accommodations into a family destination.

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