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Slide the City a downtown water slide on steroids
Want to beat the heat with a watery thrill ride?
Check out Slide the City on Saturday, Aug. 13. Slide the City is a 1,000-foot-long water slide — think your backyard Slip ‘N’ Slide on steroids — that will flow down Fifth Street all the way across Broad Street in downtown Chattanooga. Visitors slide down its padded surface in inner tubes, splashing through three city blocks.
The water slide is owned by Sack Lunch Productions and travels the country as a warm-weather attraction that also benefits a local nonprofit. Make-a-Wish of East Tennessee will be Chattanooga’s beneficiary.
The huge water slide is divided into three lanes: one for single sliders, who take off one at a time; the family lane, where parents can slide with their children; and the party lane, for sliders craving a more adventurous ride. Children must be at least 5 years old and over 46 inches tall to slide.
In addition to the huge water slide, Slide the City includes a block party around it with music and food trucks.
With the purchase of a slide pass, sliders will receive a wristband. Hold onto that after your slide, because Flo- Foto will be on-site shooting pictures and the wristband is how you’ll find your pictures at flo-foto.com. Sliders also will receive an inner tube, mouth guard and drawstring bag with their pass purchase, according to Sack Lunch’s website.
Sliders are advised to only bring the bare necessities with them to the event. There are no lockers or bag checks. Employees and volunteers will not baby- sit your stuff. Sack Lunch staff advises: “If you don’t want it on your body during the slide, leave it at home.”
Catherine Fowlkes, development coordinator at Make- a-Wish, encourages sliders to use promo code chattaSTC16 when ordering their tickets online at https://slidethecity.com/location/chattanooga.
“The promo codes gives you 10 percent off a slide ticket, and that money goes to Make-a-Wish,” she says.