Tags: Amusement Park Attraction, Water Ride.
The Tidal Wave is a boat-based shoot-the-chutes amusement ride at Six Flags St. Louis amusement park that opened in 1991 in the Illinois section of the park.It uses 20-person boats and has a 50-foot waterfall that ends in a basin with 300000 gallons of water creating a wall of water 20 feet high and 80 feet wide.