Disney's Blizzard Beach is one of the attractions at Disney World Florida. Disney tickets can be purchased through this website.

Florida sun meets alpine snow in Disney's Blizzard Beach water park. Legend has it that a freak snowstorm resulted in Florida's first ski resort, but when temperatures rose, the Florida sun turned the ski runs into water slides.

The most eye-catching attractions at Blizzard Beach can be found on the slopes of Mt. Gushmore. It is home to Downhill Double Dipper, side-by-side racing water slides that stand 50 feet high and 200 feet long. Guests will travel up to 25 mph, twisting and turning before shooting out through a curtain of water. Mt. Gushmore also features slalom courses, toboggan and water sled runs and the awesome, 120-foot-high Summit Plummet which is the nation's tallest, fastest free-fall speed slide, visible from almost anywhere in the park.

From Summit Plummet's "ski jump" tower, it's a breathtaking high-speed 60 mph plunge straight down to a splash landing at the base of the mountain. Next to Summit Plummet is the tall but less steep Slush Gusher, a speed slide that drops guests through a snow-banked mountain gully.