Canyon Blaster (Great Escape)

Infobox roller coaster
name = Canyon Blaster


caption = Loading station, both lift hills with flume of the Desperado Plunge in right foreground.
location = The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom
section = Ghosttown
type = Steel
manufacturer = Arrow Dynamics
designer =
model = Out and Back roller coaster
lift = Chain lift hill
status = Open
opened = 2003
height = 56
drop =
length = 2000
speed = 45
inversions = 0
duration = 2 min. 30 sec.
capacity =
restriction = 42
rcdb_number= 2214

Canyon Blaster is a steel roller coaster located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, Lake George in Queensbury, New York.

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.

History

This particular coaster previously operated as the Rock n' Roller Coaster at the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee.