Gilroy Gardens Water Oasis

Gilroy Gardens teamed up with the Don Chapin Company to construct a complicated and intricate water park. The new $2 million attraction allows children to play and learn about plants and water conservation in three separate areas—Splashpad, Water Journey and Oasis Lagoon. Each area offers interactive and hands-on activities for children. The Splashpad is a forest of oversize flowers and trees, which shower guests with water. Water Journey encourages kids to explore how water moves through waterways. Kids can then move on to the Oasis Lagoon—which has a maximum depth of 18 inches—where they can spray friends with water creatures and slide down water conduits. Officials said the attraction continues the environmental message of the park’s closed micro-watershed system that cleans, recycles and reuses the water within its boundaries.