Calverton: Water Park, Indoor Surfing and Grumman Heritage

Calverton brings together several distinct reasons to stay: a water park, an indoor surfing experience, an ice rink and a place of aviation history. If you’re looking for a hotel in Calverton, it helps to first decide what you want to focus on during your trip. Will a water experience be the deciding factor, would you like to include ice skating, or are you more interested in a historic visit? These attractions differ in theme and give you specific points to consider when choosing your destination.

Water Park and Indoor Surfing

Splish Splash covers 96 acres and features water slides and swimming pools. The water park also has two large wave pools. Stingray Bay is a water play area with spray features and small slides.

This distinction can help you decide what you’re interested in: the acreage describes the park’s size, while the pools and areas mentioned describe the types of attractions. This way, you can distinguish between the park’s overall size and its specific water activities when planning your trip.

Scott’s Pointe is also in Calverton, but has a different focus: the adventure park offers an indoor surfing experience on its ProFlow surf wave. Scott’s Pointe is family-owned and operated, and is an adventure park for all ages. Unlike Splish Splash’s pools and slides, the focus here is indoor surfing. The different focuses can help you decide which type of water experience better suits your travel plans.

More Activities

Swan Pond in Calverton has a hand-launch boat ramp. Parking at this location is limited to three cars. If you’re including Swan Pond as a separate stop in your travel plans, this limit is worth keeping in mind as you prepare.

The Peconic Hockey Foundation’s ice rink is located in Veteran’s Memorial Park. It adds a distinctly different focus to the water park and indoor surfing: ice skating. If you’re considering more than one type of activity for your trip, you can include the rink as a separate stop in your plans. The EPCAL bike path is also listed as a recreational highlight. The EPCAL bike path is listed as a recreational highlight in its own right. Cycling is a different focus from water activities and ice skating.

Aviation History at Grumman Memorial Park

Grumman Memorial Park preserves the legacy of Grumman Aerospace at the site of the former Grumman final assembly and flight test facility. It also honors the employees of Grumman Corporation. A Grumman-built F-14A Tomcat is the centerpiece of the park. The site’s former function connects the company’s history to Calverton, while honoring its employees adds another perspective on its aviation heritage. This historical focus is distinctly different from the water and ice-skating attractions.

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