THE GREAT ESCAPE & Splashwater Kingdom
Lake George, New York
Six Flags Theme Parks
 Park News - (8/20/2025) Add this to the list of possible rides that may be removed from Six Flags parks this winter. Again… this is just a RUMOR right now, but someone is claiming that the Canyon Blaster at The Great Escape may be removed. I’m told that the old Arrow Mine Train coaster has been sitting closed for the season and does not appear as if anyone has been trying to repair it.
The ride is a bit long in the tooth, having started out at Opryland USA as the Rock ‘n Roller Coaster back in 1972 to 1997. It them sat in storage at Old Indiana for half a decade (from late 1997 to 2002) before it was installed and reopened at The Great Escape in 2003.
I hate to see the classics go however, so hopefully this rumor is false and maybe they’re just waiting on parts. I’ve heard several other rides at the park have also been suffering from downtime issues this season that could also be put on the chopping block instead so we’ll have to wait and see.
(5/10/2025) According to the local news visitors to Six Flags Great Escape this season will find a new smoke-free policy in place at the park, preventing all smoking (including vaping and e-cigarettes) to now be banned entirely within the park itself. All smoking will be restricted to a designated smoking area outside of the park located between the entrance and the metal detectors.
(7/27/2024) Six Flags has brought on Socrates Imaging to install an interesting new feature to The Bobcat wooden coaster at The Great Escape. Socrates worked with Gravity Group to install “The Rabbit” on-ride video capture system to the trains, which captures HD footage of the riders experience during the entire ride, and allowed them to purchase the personalized video of their ride via a simple QR code link.
The concept of on-ride cameras isn’t new, but it does very much fill a need in today’s social-media driven world, allowing guests the ability to obtain a video shot on professional equipment of their ride, without the need for the dangerous (and typically banned) practice of using their own cell-phones to do it. You can see a great sample video taken from The Bobcat posted here.
2025 - Nothing is expected to be added at this time...
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