Witches' Water, Mountain theme park in Söll, Austria.

Witches' Water is a theme park at the middle station of the Söll cable car in Tyrol, Austria, opened on 16 June 2002. Its core is a water play area of ponds, rivulets and two dark wooden trough-like chutes that carry a thin flow of water down into a shallow channel between grey stone blocks. The site also holds a barefoot trail, an indoor water workshop called Blaues Wunder, a bee house and a more than 300-year-old farmhouse, the Simonalm.

The meadow where the park sits was used for alpine farming and seasonal grazing for generations, following a pattern common across the Tyrolean mountains. When the park was developed, it kept the open character of the pasture, which still gives the site its shape today.

The name Hexenwasser (Witches' Water) draws on Tyrolean mountain tales of witches and hidden springs in the high pastures. A witches' trail in the surrounding area traces these legends past the spots where they are set. The site is run by the Söll cable-car company with creative director Matthias Schenk of Schloss Freudenberg, and it is expanded each year.

A gondola lift from the village of Söll brings visitors up to the park and can carry strollers and wheelchairs. The park is open in summer, and the water stations are best enjoyed on warm days when children can get wet without discomfort.

A barefoot path winds through the park, guiding walkers across patches of moss, wet sand, bark, and smooth stones. Most visitors expect the water stations to be the highlight, but many end up remembering this path more than anything else.