| Canyon Blaster | |
| Loading station, both lift hills with flume of the Desperado Plunge in right foreground. | |
| Location | The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom |
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| Park section | Ghosttown |
| Status | Operating |
| Opened | 2003 |
| Type | Steel - Mine Train |
| Manufacturer | Arrow Dynamics |
| Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
| Height | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Length | 2,000 ft (610 m) |
| Max speed | 45 mph (72 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Duration | 2 min. 30 sec. |
| Height restriction | 3 ft 6 in (107 cm) |
| Canyon Blaster at RCDB | |
| Pictures of Canyon Blaster at RCDB | |
| Amusement Parks Portal | |
Canyon Blaster is a steel roller coaster located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, Lake George in Queensbury, New York.
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. It has two trains, one brown and one blue, but in the past few years only the brown train has been used. 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.
This particular coaster previously operated as the Rock n' Roller Coaster at the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee. At the Great Escape the coaster is slightly changed structurally and welded to fit its site in the park.
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