Lake Winnepesaukah has the oldest ride of what type, which finishes with a climactic splashdown?
Lake Winnepesaukah Lake Winnepesaukah, commonly known as Lake Winnie, is an amusement park located in Rossville, Georgia, just south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Carl and Minette Dixon opened the park to over 5,000 guests on June 1, 1925. They named it after the Native American word "Winnepesaukah", meaning “bountiful waters” or “beautiful lake of the highlands”. The park originally featured the largest swimming pool in the southeastern United States, which debuted in 1926 and was later removed. Its Boat Chute attraction, designed by Carl Dixon, opened in 1927 and is the oldest mill chute water ride of its kind still in operation in the United States.
'Opaeka'a Falls ʻ Ōpaekaʻ a Falls is a waterfall located on the ʻŌpaekaʻa Stream in Wailua River State Park on the eastern side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai. It is a 151–foot waterfall that flows over basalt from volcanic eruptions millions of years ago. Below the ridge down into the ravine through which the water falls can be seen the vertical dikes of basalt that cut through the horizontal Koloa lava flows. The name "ʻ Ōpaekaʻ a" means rolling shrimp, "ʻ opae" being Hawaiian for "shrimp," and "kaʻ a" for "rolling". The name dates back to days when the native freshwater shrimp "Atyoida bisulcata" were plentiful in the stream and were seen rolling and tumbling down the falls and into the churning waters at the fall's base.