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.

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!

I grew up in Western NY & Crystal Beach was our summer fun. It was popular before amusement parks became theme parks; it was a simpler time. It’s fun to see The Comet still operating. Thanks for good memories!

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.

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.

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

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

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 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

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!

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

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.

Even though this is the least invested park, I could see them demolishing the old nightmare building for a rmc raptor clone

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

The new ride bobcat is the best coaster there!

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.

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 🤙

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!!

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.

That ice cream cone looks crazy!! 🍦

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

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 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.

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 might consider going to this park soon.

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!

That ice cream would overwhelm me

Grew up in toga can confirm I went to highschool with 3 managers in the park the time. They would hire anyone

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Glad to say I was one of the nine workers in 2021

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?

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.

I love this park

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

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?

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.

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)?

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

It’s hard for me to have a bad time at a park which I love

Desperado Plunge was relocated from the old Busch Gardens in LA.

its super close to my house and its super fun ive been going since i was a baby

I'm a little late but do you know if you can access the indoor water park with a diamond elite membership?

It’s has been 2015 when the last time I was at the six flags great escape

My review of great escape is Storybook Land in Aberdeen SD meets Great Wolf Lodge meets Six Flags.

Shimmying and shuffling are two types of roughness, what are the differences between the shimmying and the shuffling? What do you think?

It's sad that HUSS Condors are so rare. They are so gracefully forceful if that makes sense. A true gentle giant.

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.

Wonder how long season pass good for

So sad I never got to ride the bobsled coaster

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.

Adirondack Outlaw and Sasquatch have the same color scheme

rip jungle land and the nightmare best parts of the park besides the water show

The park needs a serious overhaul. Unfortunately, I can’t see Six Flags investing much money into it.

I haven’t been to every Six Flags park but this looks much different it’s different not seeing the licensing

What means "pun intended a nightmare to ride"?

"The portions ae unbelievably large." you mean extra 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

The advertising doesn’t seem as overdone is it in person

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

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.

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