Canyon Blaster at Six Flags Great Escape
Pulled up by a chain Never upside down48 inches to ride

Six Flags Great Escape, Queensbury, New York

Canyon Blaster

POV
Ride it: front row POV
Canyon Blaster Watch Performance Should I ride it? Specifications Reviews Planning History

Watch POVs and more

Canyon Blaster front seat on-ride 5K POV @60fps Six Flags Great Escape

youtube.com › CoasterForce

Canyon Blaster - Six Flags Great Escape - Back Row (4K HD POV) - June 2023

youtube.com › ThemeParkMark

CANYON BLASTER On-Ride POV Six Flags Great Escape [HD]

youtube.com › Relaxing Reality

Canyon Blaster (Off-ride Footage) - Great Escape Theme Park

youtube.com › davidjellis

Canyon Blaster Review, Six Flags Great Escape Arrow Mine Train | It's Not a Blast

youtube.com › Canobie Coaster

Great Escape 2012-Canyon Blaster & Screamin' Demon

youtube.com › ChallengerDood

🎢 Six Flags Great Escape Canyon Blaster TV Commercial (2003 VHS Rip) | HQ Roller Coaster Ad

youtube.com › Sleepover Trading Co.

Performance

Vs. other coasters at Six Flags Great Escape

Most Arrow mine trains are pretty rough at this point but this didn’t seem too rough and had a fun first section after a quick lift hill and then a second larger lift hill with a dramatic triple helix...

David

It’s REALLY uncomfortable and the layout is boring, however there is some good theming to be found here.

roller rider

Very rough and many parts are just boring.

Bubble Gaming

It’s a great introduction for kids and it’s great that the park was able to save it from the scrap heap and keep it going.

David

I also like the speed, keeping a consistent pace throughout and gaining a lot of that speed in the finale, which was fine but was the rattliest part of the ride.

roller rider

This does tend to have one of the longer lines in the park since it has only one train and a long ride time.

@collinparsons3363

Should I ride it?

Organize by

Specifications

56 ftHeight
116 Flashback 95 Comet 56 CanyonBlaster
45 mphTop speed
Comet55 Flashback47 Canyon Blaster45 055 mph
0Inversions

What riders say

Criticised for

OverratedRough or rattlySlowed by trimsWeak layout

probably the worst arrow mine train, it feels way shorter than all the others, and doesn’t even have a good ending drop like on most mine trains.

Jamie Óchi, Captain Coaster review

This ride originally from 1972 and refurbished and moved to SFGE in 2003 is an interesting piece of history and is still pretty fun and smooth all things considered.

David, Captain Coaster review

What is also kind of sad is that 1/2 of Ghost Town was ripped apart to build this disappointment.

@TheJediKenneth, review

the lil twirl @ the end is so scary and fun at the same time

@QueenLena122, review

Planning your ride

History

June 27, 2003Opened

A mine train, built by Arrow.

Sources

Restraint types: Captain Coaster. History, incidents and awards: Wikipedia. Specifications and status: Coasterpedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. From the park and maker: Six Flags Great Escape guide. Also read: Captain Coaster (converted to feet and mph). Rider sentiment and performance scores: rider reviews on Captain Coaster, youtube.com, read and scored by AirtimeFever.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Zotdragon at en.wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Video thumbnails remain the property of their channels and link back to them.

The photo slider at the top: CoasterForce's front row POV, Canyon Blaster front seat on-ride 5K POV @60fps Six Flags Great Escape (YouTube), and the page's Wikimedia Commons photographs.