Coming Soon: Great Wolf Lodge in Manteca to open this summer

A massive new indoor water park is getting ready to open in San Joaquin County, and it will be up and running sooner than expected. The Great Wolf Lodge in the Manteca area is near Highway 120 and Interstate 5. The 500-room family resort was supposed to open Aug. 1, but that’s been pushed up to July 1. The water park is 95,000 square feet and will be filled with paddling pools for younger children, a lazy river, a wave pool and slides.“Our most thrilling ride is what we call Wolf Tail, and Wolf Tail starts with a cylindrical tube that you stand in and it closes around you. You cross your feet, you cross your arms, they count to three, and on three, the floor drops away, and you drop a straight vertical 20 feet before the slide catches you, slows you down and dumps you into a pool at the bottom,” said Murray Hennessy, CEO for Great Wolf Resorts. There will also be a family adventure park with a ropes course, arcade, mini bowling and mini golf.This is the second Great Wolf Lodge in California. The other location is in Anaheim.

A massive new indoor water park is getting ready to open in San Joaquin County, and it will be up and running sooner than expected.


The Great Wolf Lodge in the Manteca area is near Highway 120 and Interstate 5.

The 500-room family resort was supposed to open Aug. 1, but that’s been pushed up to July 1.

The water park is 95,000 square feet and will be filled with paddling pools for younger children, a lazy river, a wave pool and slides.

“Our most thrilling ride is what we call Wolf Tail, and Wolf Tail starts with a cylindrical tube that you stand in and it closes around you. You cross your feet, you cross your arms, they count to three, and on three, the floor drops away, and you drop a straight vertical 20 feet before the slide catches you, slows you down and dumps you into a pool at the bottom,” said Murray Hennessy, CEO for Great Wolf Resorts.

There will also be a family adventure park with a ropes course, arcade, mini bowling and mini golf.

This is the second Great Wolf Lodge in California. The other location is in Anaheim.