Six Flags Great Escape Review, Queensbury, Adirondack Theme Park | Most Charming Six Flags Park
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- The Great Escape in Queensbury, New York is the most charming Six Flags park. This amusement and water park has not been flagged as a Six Flags park, but it has some similarities to their other parks. But more importantly, this theme park still has a lot of charm and walkthrough elements from its Storytown U.S.A. days. While this park has the reputation as a lower tier Six Flags park, it is still a fun park.
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I always considered this my second home park after New England. Every year we would go up to lake George in the summer and hit up great escape. I have so much nostalgia for this park, it’s like “Disneyland at home” if you get the meme, and I love it.
Lake George is an amazing vacation for any New Englander.
I've always considered this my home park even though I live an hour from Great Adventure. I miss the walkthrough attraction in Timbertown, way back when it used to be Jungle Land. I'm glad you gave shout-outs to Martha's and Around the World/US!
Wait they got rid of that? Dang... I remember I loved jumping on the bridges or running across them when I was a kid.
I think the walkthrough is still there (partially), but it's closed off.
My mother has a map of the park from the early 90s that still list this as a section. Shut down because the secluded nature + some questionable decisions people say. Can still see a good portion from the sky coster
That final shot of Million Dollar Beach and the golf courses there gave me so much nostalgia. That location alone has some great memories. This review in general gave me a ton of nostalgia. This did a great job being my homepark, and it's sad it's not 15 minutes away anymore.
The location is beautiful.
I can attest to Martha’s Dandee Cream being the bomb! Their lineup of soft serve flavors is unrivaled, and their milkshakes are delicious too
My wife loves them.
Really enjoy your in depth park reviews! Since I probably won't be coming here anytime in the near future or possibly ever, it is nice to get information and history about the park.
You're welcome!
I grew up 25 minuets away from this park. I can honestly say no one associates this place with six flags unless you saw the six flags guy in the commercials growing up in the 2000s
That's fair.
This park is sooo great for families! This is my true home park (though I like to consider SFNE my HP) I’ve been going since I was a little kid it has such a charm to it
The comet was my first coaster, it’ll always hold the most special place in my heart
I agree it has a nice charm.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
You're welcome!
This was my childhood park. My family would visit from Canada all the time. We would stay at the nearby Great Escape Lodge with the indoor waterpark and walk over to the park from there. You’ve brought back so many moments over the past few days. The Alice in Wonderland Walkthrough and riding the Comet are my earliest Theme Park memories. I will say, I am sad to see the park not getting the love it deserves from Six Flags. The park is only getting more decrepid. I’m just asking for them to do a lot of repainting, not like, shell out for a B&M Hyper or anything
I really hope they get a new coaster in the next few years.
7:52 The craziest thing about the great escape is that it’s 345 acres of land (4th most) and I’m pretty sure that they don’t use even half of it. But that’s proubly because of the swamp that’s behind ghost town.
I heard a rumor they can't use a ton of that land.
Yeh, it would take a lot of work to make the land usable. It wouldn't really be worth it for the park to use it. The neighboring towns would also probably despise the clearing they'd have to do to use the land.
I've spent so long with a condor in my planet coaster park I almost tuned out the background music on this review - I always enjoy the music selection on these!
Condor is a fun one.
I generally choose Sasquatch Drop Side when I check into the park since I have my Diamond Elite Membership. Before I get onto other ones such as Condor, Canyon Blaster, and Steamin Demon. I choose the Comet when I'm ready. I do a flight on its Skycoaster upcharge attraction once in a while. When I eventually try out Adirondack Outlaw and Greezed Lightning, I might risk vomiting afterwards. Even after the ride on Flashback Boomerang especially during rollback.
Nice!
Also there's Glen Twin Drive in Theater just down the road. Spend the day at the park, grab some dinner, and then catch a double feature.
I have never been there since we have a drive-in near our house back home.
The new ride bobcat is the best coaster there!
I hope to try that soon.
Even though this is the least invested park, I could see them demolishing the old nightmare building for a rmc raptor clone
I'd love a Raptor clone.
Grew up in toga can confirm I went to highschool with 3 managers in the park the time. They would hire anyone
At least that's good for people needing jobs.
Really great info on the traffic rules! I always assumed tearing down steamin demon for an rmc raptor would be wise but now I see why they might want to keep it how it is
It's kind of crummy how they're on the hook for that. So I don't blame them for making a consistent profit.
From what I remember steamin demon was the million dollar ride it took me a few years before going in it. To me theme parks aren’t just roller coasters it’s family. They need to clean up the river in the middle and get the swan boats going again, bring back the live shows Lake George area has lost so much now with gas light village the water park is gone now the putts and prizes arcade and mini golf location of the oldest miniature golf in the USA. Magic forest, time town to many attractions gone. It’s time to bring them back
From the few years I lived in ny I had passed this park alot as I went to an ice cream shop across the street alot and wanted to go so its nice to see a video of it!!
Martha's I'm guessing?
@@CanobieCoaster You got it!! Nice video btw
I will say with the larger crowds during fright fest the ride opps for comet were some of the best I’ve seen both at this park and other parks. Like you said most day it’s at most a 15 minutes wait just inside the station without the zig zags being used. When I went to fright fest not only was the station full but it extended out al the way between supernova and the pool for the slides. And it was still Only a 15 minute wait.( maybe 25 for the front.). They had the station train ready to dispatch and even did dispatch it as the active train hit the final break run.
This crew is great.
Awesome honest review of my home park. I love the charm, but naturally hate the coaster lineup. Comet was running really fast towards the end of the year, and that coaster in the rain is another experience in itself! Those laterals at the end are fire in the rain!!
I can't wait for the day we get an RMC Raptor. We're the perfect size park to get one, and we could own 3 trains and roll 2, always keeping one in maintenance to keep them optimized, and still not have major capacity issues due to our low attendance.... a boy can dream right?!
Other concept I've had is sadly removing Alpine Bobsled and putting a proper coaster in it's place. Perfect location in center of the park, has gift shop next to it already you could alter and create a new exit through, and tons of space for queue lines under the track.
Let me know next time you're in the area, and I'll let you know if/when Alpine Bobsled is running 🤙
I got lucky that Bobsled was open for me this year. I plan my trip around Lake George more than Great Escape. My Comet rides were in early August this year.
Awesome review! Great to hear that avalanche is sometimes open despite the app saying it’s closed, and that adults can ride the kiddie coaster. Fingers crossed that’s still the case this year.
Thanks! I have heard Alpine Bobsled has not opened at all this year unfortunately.
We're going in 3 weeks, and the website says that adults can't ride the kiddie coaster without a kid, so I'm really hoping we can ride it! Haha
Just went today in June 2022. I only intended to be in the dry park but ran back to my car to grab my swimsuit! Had a fun time on the coasters and slides
Nice!
Bobcat is going to be a solid addition to this park. The Lake George region is a solid area overall. Me and family went this past July and are already set to go back next June. Martha's Dandee Cream is definitely portion happy. I ordered an Italian sausage sub, and it was huge.
I'm looking forward to Bobcat.
This is like Mishagans Adventure it's a nice park but gets neglected by the chain. I think this park could benefit with a Raptor or something.
I agree.
I might consider going to this park soon.
It's a charming park.
That ice cream cone looks crazy!! 🍦
She loves it.
Martha's is the place to go
Shimmying and shuffling are two types of roughness, what are the differences between the shimmying and the shuffling? What do you think?
Both are types of roughness when the train jitters.
AstroWorld was also a "red headed" step child, as we'd often get relocated rides. Instead of B&M Batman, we got Vekoma SLC. But, to answer your question. Yes! Great Escape DOES have the old early themed park "charm". The trees & mountains really add to this wonderful old park. Thanks for the super GREAT video!
Thanks! Astroworld is a park I wish I could have visited.
It's for these reasons that I take issue with people saying that Great Escape is the worst Six Flags park. The fact that it's so un-Six Flags-like is the reason I like it so much. While the food still isn't "great", I've found the offerings at Alpine Fest Haus to be better than typical park food fare.
Alpine Fest Haus is usually my go-to there as well.
The fried dough was incredible
For being a 20 year faithful customer to the great escape. The park was always full. We stopped going to the lake George area for financial reasons . Seriously was sad to hear 6 flags bought the park. They used to get collage students to staff the park. Everything was open running and busy. So I guess our last year was 1995. I feel most of the problems the park is having is management of six flags. The park always closed around 6- 7 pm Mr wood also owned gaslight village that was opened later in the day that would close around 10pm. I do feel six flags should reopen the swan boat rides the jungle land safari and bring back the live entertainment. It’s disgusting to thing the high dive area became a chalk walk graffiti area. Definitely someone has dropped the ball. They took the Hanes room out if the western town and put the bumper cars in that area. They need to bring back the bank robbery and so much more. The mixed information about money is disturbing either they have money or don’t.
Six Flags has money. They typically just invest more in their other parks. But I am excited for Bobcat next year.
Two questions; how far is it from Six Flags Darien Lake and is admission to the park included when you stay at the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge?
It's 4.5 hours from Darien Lake. The two closest Six Flags parks to Great Escape are La Ronde and Six Flags New England (2.5 hours away). Admission can be included when you stay at the Great Escape Lodge depending which package you pick.
What? I was flatly rejected from riding Frankie’s Mine Train! Even got there before anyone else to be sure I wouldn’t be taking a seat away from a kid, and I was still given an adamant no.
I had a similar issue with Great Chase at Six Flags America in my first few trips until I finally got the credit in 2020. Maybe it depends on the operator?
Came to say the same thing! Didn't even bother attempting to ride it my most recent visit.
That ice cream would overwhelm me
It overwhelmed her the first time.
The comet is definitely the best ride. The operators allow rerides if their isnt a line. That may sound like a one in a million moment, but half the time I was at the great escape, it was just a walk on.
I've benefitted from that policy too.
I went there in the summer it was so fun.when I went there they closed at 7:45pm my family went back to the hotel for the water park
That's one of the perks of staying there.
@@CanobieCoaster the hotel even funner
Biased question: Is Sidewinder the worst thrill coaster at Hersheypark? It's a Vekoma Boomerang, but with the manufacturer's trains with vest restraints. If it's not, then does the park have a bad coaster(in your opinion)?
Trailblazer is a weak mine train so that's probably the worst adult coaster at Hershey.
The park reprofiled some of the bunny hops about 10 years ago which took much of the airtime out of them, most likely reason they don’t feel as wild
Oh dang, maybe that's why.
This park is alright but the area it’s in makes it better,if your gonna go to the lodge and you can spend one day at the great escape then on the 2nd day you can go to the beach or mini golfing and get ice cream and if you don’t wanna go to the great escape you can just drive like 2 hours for New England
True!
I'm a little late but do you know if you can access the indoor water park with a diamond elite membership?
No, you get a discount on the hotel though with that membership.
@@CanobieCoaster okay thanks!
Glad to say I was one of the nine workers in 2021
Nice!
My review of great escape is Storybook Land in Aberdeen SD meets Great Wolf Lodge meets Six Flags.
I want to vist that Story Book Land someday.
@@CanobieCoaster It's really cute. I actually think the figures are better there than Great Escape. My sister used to go to school around there, so I've been a few times. Definitely go during the summer though; it's fine in the spring and fall, but the rides aren't open. The only issue is that the town is really isolated.
The new entrance should help with congestion and the security process. However I've seen online that splash water island and flying trapeze are dismantled. Thoughts?
Flying Trapeze was super unreliable, so I can understand why it may not reopen.
I love small parks. I adored Waldameer, so I think I would love this little park, but it does seem to be "big" for a small park.
It has elements of both a large and small park.
It was better then a full day adventure. Shame they started taking stuff away like jungle land all the live shows the circus and the live bank robbery in ghost town.
its super close to my house and its super fun ive been going since i was a baby
Nice!
Wonder how long season pass good for
Typically a year.
@@CanobieCoaster bx I got mine last year in August so wondering if it's good till rest this season or will it expire in August
It’s has been 2015 when the last time I was at the six flags great escape
Worth a revisit.
Desperado Plunge was relocated from the old Busch Gardens in LA.
Oh neat!
What? The log ride? From Busch Gardens Van Nuys??
@@StamfordBridge at least the logs were relocated, if nothing else. You can look up pictures - the logs look the same, and the timeline makes sense.
@@amusementnow4416 So you don’t know it to be the case; you’re just conjecturing? Anyway, I’m just asking because I actually rode the log ride at the Van Nuys Busch Gardens, though I was quite young.
@@StamfordBridge Do a search for Desperado Plunge with "Busch Gardens" in quotes and you'll see many sources that say so. I don't know any Arrow flumes that used this style of logs outside of the Busch parks.
It’s hard for me to have a bad time at a park which I love
I enjoy my time there.
i visited this park just over a month ago... was not impressed, the rides looked and felt well under maintained. The directions to the parking was bad. I was visiting friends that were from Syracuse and we spent the weekend up Lake George, they had 2 little kids and i had my 14 yr old son..... half of the kids rides weren't open, and if they were people running it looked 12.... it has an old musty camp feel. So at the start of the video when you stated Red Headed step Child.... i Laughed hard at that, because me and my son went to darrien lake six flags a few days later before we went home and totally can see it now.
I've had good visits and I'm glad they're getting a new coaster in Bobcat.
It's sad that HUSS Condors are so rare. They are so gracefully forceful if that makes sense. A true gentle giant.
I enjoy them.
So sad I never got to ride the bobsled coaster
Bobcat should be even better.
rip jungle land and the nightmare best parts of the park besides the water show
I didn't enjoy Nightmare too much to be honest.
It'd unique but it could use improvement, definitely one of those worst Six Flags in terms of ride lineup but it has a different feel than the others. I personally am more for the rides than the different feel so I probably wouldn't enjoy this place as much but what they do have is ok. They just need to ge something new as its been forever.
I love the feel. They just need another big coaster.
What means "pun intended a nightmare to ride"?
It had very low capacity.
The park needs a serious overhaul. Unfortunately, I can’t see Six Flags investing much money into it.
I hope they get more investment, especially with Alpine Bobsled closing.
Adirondack Outlaw and Sasquatch have the same color scheme
Both look good.
I haven’t been to every Six Flags park but this looks much different it’s different not seeing the licensing
This and Frontier City feel a lot different. Both parks also get a ton of hand-me-downs.
Up until the 07 recession six flags was investing in this park. It had justice league and loony tunes, and almost got a relocated SLC which I believe would have replaced Nightmare. Hopefully that fire will revive and six flags will start investing again. The effort they went through to get the new ride open this year with COVID delays and zoning reviews are a plus. So maybe they do care a little more then people think. Positive thoughts.
"The portions ae unbelievably large."
you mean extra small
Some are very small.
The hotel water park is way better and if you really wanna enjoy your day go down to Canada Ave bars restaurant game room etc
I prefer the theme park's water park, but the hotel is nice too.
Why go to a park where you drive half of your day plus just to get there and close early because of neighborhood Karen’s just go to New Jersey or New England get your money’s worth
I prefer Six Flags New England and Great Adventure, but Great Escape is still fun.
The advertising doesn’t seem as overdone is it in person
It's more subtle than other Six Flags parks but it is there.
If you dont like noise DONT MOVE BY A FKING AMUSMENT PARK. if a park is already established all who buy homes in the area should have to sigh waivers that theybunderstand a amuasment park is close and that they waive any right to complain.
It's unfortunate people complain about a park they know is already there.
this park is NOT worth visiting, it's a pure rip off. Everything is dated, their coasters are terrible except the comet. They will never add another serious coaster because they care about the residents needs more than the customers. They will close one day permanently
This park is in a vacation destination and they have a steady pool to pull from annually.