Canyon Blaster (Great Escape)
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| Canyon Blaster | |
 Loading station, both lift hills with flume of the Desperado Plunge in right foreground. |
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| Location | The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom |
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| Park Section | Ghosttown |
| Type | Steel |
| Status | Open |
| Opened | 2003 |
| Manufacturer | Arrow Dynamics |
| Model | Out and Back roller coaster |
| Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
| Height | 56 feet (17.1 m) |
| Length | 2,000 feet (609.6 m) |
| Max speed | 45 mile per hour (72.4 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 2 min. 30 sec. |
| Height Restriction | 42 inches (106.7 cm) |
| Canyon Blaster at RCDB | |
| Pictures of Canyon Blaster at RCDB | |
Canyon Blaster is a steel roller coaster located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom in Lake George, New York.
[edit] Ride experience and theming
It is a gentle family-style coaster designed as a runaway mine train featuring two lift hills and a double helix. The ride has a red track with yellow supports and a blue train. In keeping with the Old West theme of the Ghosttown section of the park, the coaster is decorated with broken and crumbling artifacts from the era including a stagecoach, a broken steam train and the fake bones of dead animals. The outer fence is painted with mine blast warnings and notices of when the last (again fake) accident was.
[edit] History
This particular coaster previously operated as the Rock n' Roller Coaster at the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee.
| Roller coasters at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom |
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Alpine Bobsled – Boomerang: Coast to Coaster – Canyon Blaster – Comet – Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon – Road Runner Express – Steamin' Demon |
