Excelling at watersports, like aging gracefully or enjoying dried fruit, requires acceptance of pruney fingers. Outfit yourself for aquatic play with today’s Groupon to Cowtown Wakepark. Choose between the following options:
- For $19, you get a two-hour cable pass with standard equipment on Monday, Thursday, or Friday (up to a $38 value).
- For $19, you get a two-hour cable pass with standard equipment on a Saturday or Sunday (up to a $38 value).
- For $22, you get a four-hour cable pass with standard equipment on Monday, Thursday, or Friday (up to a $48 value).
- For $28, you get an all-day pass with standard equipment (a $61 value).<p>
Longtime wakeboarding enthusiast Tommy Fambrough founded Cowtown Wakepark to initiate Fort Worth residents into the invigorating world of aquatic exercise. In order to experiment with the surface tension of the Trinity River, wakeboarders make their way around a circular watercourse while grasping onto a secure cable system. The carefully devised network of tow ropes eliminate the need for taming feral boats, and a series of ramps and various stunt platforms work to provide freshwater wranglers with exciting challenges. Kneeboards and wakeskating opportunities also help to vary surface-gliding sessions. With each admission, wakeboarders will also receive helmets and life jackets, which offer a blend of comfort and protection rivaled only by wearable grandmothers.
Although Cowtown Wakepark offers a discounted rate every day before noon, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.
Cowtown Wakepark
Just off a straight stretch of the Trinity River, the sounds of laughter and victorious whooping grow louder. A curious look toward the hubbub yields a vision rarely seen in the city—helmet-clad athletes of all ages splash along the water's surface, launching their bodies in what looks like the offspring of water-skiing and snowboarding onto ramps, jumps, and railings that protrude from the water's surface like geometric islands. It's all part of a regular afternoon at Cowtown Wakepark, the watery brainchild of 20-year wakeboarding enthusiast Tommy Fambrough. During the course of three years, Tommy slowly formed the labyrinth of water-bound obstacles that visitors enjoy today, earning acclaim from the Trinity River Vision Authority's revitalization project for his riverside paradise's part in keeping the area an accessible and productive part of the community.
Each wakeboarding run begins when visitors strapped into their Liquid Force boards grab a cable and are pulled from the shore-side wooden platform across the water, cutting through the river's calm surface and pausing only to heckle passing fish. Spectators stick to the shore under covered tents and at picnic tables, or recline on the water's surface inside tented rafts. Onsite instructors can show first-timers the ropes, and also lead summer day camps to instill children aged 7–16 with wakeboarding, kneedboarding, and wakeskating basics.