Six Flags Great Escape roller coasters with POVs

Every coaster here

Pick the rider's height to see what they can ride. Tap a coaster for its own page.

Rider's height

Intensity

Sort

Showing all 6

Thrill Flashback Steel · Opened 1997 117 fttall47 mphtop speed3xupside down 48 inches to ride Runs forward and backward Coaster page

Thrill Comet Wooden · Opened 1994 95 fttall55 mphtop speedNeverupside down 48 inches to ride Fastest here Coaster page

Thrill Canyon Blaster Steel · Opened 2003 56 fttall45 mphtop speedNeverupside down 48 inches to ride Mine train Coaster page

Thrill Steamin' Demon Steel · Opened 1984 3xupside down 48 inches to ride Oldest here Coaster page

Bobcat Bobcat Opened 2024 Newest here

Frankie's Mine Train Frankie's Mine Train Opened 2005

Intensity is our own three-step scale from published figures: extreme is 150 feet or taller, 74 mph or faster or 6 or more inversions; thrill is 100 feet or taller, any inversion, or a height to ride over 42 inches; family is a height to ride of 42 inches or less. A coaster those figures do not place has no label. Height to ride is from the park or, where it publishes none, Wikipedia.

How they compare

Ridden one? Find it here and see where the rest sit.

Flashback117 ft
Comet95 ft
Canyon Blaster56 ft

Thrill

Coming soon

Nothing announced

No new coaster is listed as being built at Six Flags Great Escape.

Retired coasters

The 3 that used to run here, newest closure first.

Coaster	Ran	What it was
Alpine Bobsled1998 to 2023	1998 to 2023	Steel, no track rails, runs in a trough
Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon1999 to 2006	1999 to 2006	Steel
Italian Roller Coaster1971 to 1988	1971 to 1988	Steel

Questions

How many roller coasters does Six Flags Great Escape have?

6 are operating. 3 more have closed for good.

Which coaster is the tallest, and which is the fastest?

Tallest: Flashback, 117 feet. Fastest: Comet, 55 mph.

What are the height requirements?

48 inches. At 48 inches a rider can ride 4 of the 4 with a published height. Our sources give no height to ride for Bobcat and Frankie's Mine Train.

Which coasters go upside down?

2 of the 6: Flashback (3 times) and Steamin' Demon (3 times). The rest never turn you over.

Is a new coaster coming?

Nothing announced. No new coaster is listed as being built at Six Flags Great Escape.

Closest parks

Straight-line distance from Six Flags Great Escape, among US parks with five or more coasters.

110 miles southeastSix Flags New England

Agawam, Massachusetts. 10 coasters. Tallest: Superman the Ride, 208 ft.

190 miles southLuna Park

Brooklyn, New York. 5 coasters. Tallest: Thunderbolt, 115 ft.

210 miles southwestDorney Park

Allentown, Pennsylvania. 7 coasters. Tallest: Steel Force, 200 ft.

Sources

Which coasters are open and closed, plus type, year, height, speed, times upside down and intensity: the Airtime Fever coaster dataset (Six Flags Great Escape, read Thu 10/1/2026). Our sources give no height to ride for Bobcat and Frankie's Mine Train. Figures are rounded to the nearest foot and mph.

Closest parks: straight-line distance between park locations from Wikidata (each park's coordinates, or the middle of its coasters' coordinates, read Fri 10/2/2026), rounded to 10 miles, among parks with five or more coasters.

Photographs via Wikimedia Commons: Sébastien Champoux (CC BY-SA 3.0), Tyler A. McNeil (CC BY-SA 4.0), Zotdragon at en.wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). A ride with no usable photo of it shows its name instead.