This summer ma༒y be mild, but that shouldn’t stop you from getting wet and wild.
Three on-the-marꦜket homes♋ in the tri-state area include thrilling water slides for their new owners to ride.
No, not those fliꦡmsy blue plastic ones: These over-the-top chutes offer twists, speed and tons of late-season fun.
New Canaan, Conn.
“We wanted something for our kids that made it more than just a swimming pool,” says Bryan Street of the splashy spread that he and his w🌳ife Leslie installed in the backyard of their New Canaan, Conn., home 12 years ago. So children Kyle and Sarah — now 22 and 19, respectively — got a 20-foot water slide that cuts through into a wall of fieldstone on the property’s landscape.
“You don’t see it until someone comes out of i🐽t,” adds Bryan, 54, of the slide, which ricochets riders into the pool. “You kind of skim across the top [of the water]. You come out 8 feet before you’re submerged.”
Even all these years later, the kids still get a kick out of it — particularly Sarah, who recently hosted a July 4 party there for about 20 high school friends.
“Everyone congregates to th꧑e slide,” she says. “Everyone is amazed byไ it.”
But the slide doesn’t just wow friends: The college hockey player gets plenty of enjoyment out of it, too. “Whatever chance I get to be outside and be by the pool and using t🍌he slide, I capitalize on that,” Sarah adds.
For adults, the Streets’ pool also includes a swim-up bar, waterfalls, a beach-style walk-in entry and plenty of space for lounge chairs. The couple adꦍded the outdoor perks to make their home a hot spot for entertaining. The property, at 95 Indian 🐻Waters Drive, is now on the market for $2.49 million with Halstead.
ꦬ“It’s all built around that aspect of ev♕eryone coming in, enjoying themselves and hanging around,” says Leslie, 55.
The perks extend inside the 8,🌃564-square-foot home — which has a dining room and a large family room with a fireplace. The couple is selling to downs༒ize and plan on moving nearby.
Yes, they’re leaving behind the slide, but also the sense of escape the entirಌe pool has ꦯprovided the family for the last dozen years.
“You feel like you’re somewhere else,𒅌” says Bryan.
Mahopac, NY
Despite what Mahopac, NY, visitors may think, there is no water park at 815 South Lake Boulevard — a 0.34-acre lakefront estate that boasts a prof꧋essional-grade slide.
“People have asked us if we’re open to the public,” says owner Tracy Edwards, 5ꦑ8, who lives in Florida full-time and has listed the Putnam County property for $1.99 million with 🎃Houlihan Lawrence.
“It feels like it was designed afterꦦ a resort in Turks and Caicos,” adds Edwards’ 3🅘6-year-old daughter, Stephanie Luoma.
It’s a stunner for sure. With an entry up a flight and a half of stairs, the 🐈open slide sends riders through two tight curves before shooting them into Lake Mahopac. Edwards had always wanted to have a souped-up water slide to entertain guests at this home, which is where she grew ꦺup and fully rebuilt beginning some seven years ago.
Some of those guests are Luoma and her three kids: 8-year-old Trenton, 10-year-old Jayden and 12-year-old Lorelai. The Cold Spring residents have figured out how to get the most ou🏅t of the slide their mom (or grandma) dreamed up♒. “Lean into the curves and you get a lot of speed,” says Luoma.
But with serious fun comes serious rules, Edwards says. Riders must be spaced out in 10-second intervals so they don’t land on top of each other, they must be seated upright and they all must ༺weꦉar life jackets.
The 5,000-square-foot house additionally feature🔯s a blue agate bar and, outside, shuffleboard, a tiki hut with a hot tub a🌞nd an outdoor television.
“I’m the coolest grandmother,” crows Edwards.
Ridgefield, Conn.
Two-time Olympic luge star Tucker West grew up shimmying down a 12-foot track in his backyard: the water slide that feeds right into hi꧑s family’s stone-lined pool.
“The kid꧅s used it nonstop, literally nonstop,” Brett West, 53, says of Tucker, 24, and✱ his sisters Tatum, 22, and Gracie, 18. “Up and down, up and down.”
But with the kids grown — and two other homes where they also spend time — the Wests have listed the spread at 390 West Mountain Road for $2.49 million with William Pitt Julia B Fee Sotheby’s International Realty. Beyond the pool and slide, there’s an outdoor movie screen♏ (two other screens are inside), a pool house with a full kitchen, a grass tennis court and a main house with five bedrooms.
Brett and his wife Pam, 51, custom-built this outdoor oasis after buying the 3.27-acre property in Ridgefield, Conn., in 1🍸999. The pool area has upper and lower decks, with the pool itself on the lower and a hot tub on the upper.
“I just ღwanted to take advantage of that — what a cool way to go from the hot tub to the pool,” says Brett. “I can only sit so long in a ꦑhot tub.”
As for the kids, it was simply fu🎀n to have. “There’s probably been 100-plus kids going down that slide over the years,” he adds.
Also included in t🌱he listing: a 400-foot luge track that Brett built for Tucker after he g🌱rew intrigued by the sport as a child during the Salt Lake City Olympics. (Tucker competed in the 2014 and 2018 Games.)
The outdoor luge track is “kind of like the [water slide], but it’s the winte🥂rtime version of it,” Brett quipꦑs.