Family Guide to The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Basics

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom is the region's premier theme park featuring over 135 rides and attractions, including thrill rides, family rides, kid's  rides and a full outdoor waterpark. The park is divided into 8 sections (Fest Area, Ghost Town, Hot Rod USA, Hurricane Harbor, KIDZOPOLIS, Splashwater Kingdom, Storytown, Timbertown), each with it own theme. 

Address: 1172 State Route 9, Queensbury, NY 12804

Opening Time: May through October; operating dates and hours vary. Most days, the park opens at 10:30am. Closing hours range from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

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Tickets Prices for 2019 Season

At the Gate Ticket Prices

General Admission: For adults and kids over 48 inches: $64.99
Child Admission: For kids under 48 inches: $48 .99
Children 2 & Under: Free

Online Ticket Prices

Advance Purchase Tickets : as low as $51.99 (save up to $20 when you buy your tickets online at least one day before your trip. )
Any Day Ticket Online : $54.99 (Save $10 on general admission)

2019 Season Passes & Memberships

Season Passes
2019 Season Pass: As Low As $85.99/ea (Visit The Great Escape all season long)
2019 Gold Season Pass: As Low As $85.99/ea (The best way to visit The Great Escape all season)
2019 Special Offer Pass:  As Low As $75.99/ea (Buy 4+ Season Passes and save 49%)

Memberships

Gold Plus Membership: As Low As $5.95/mo
Platinum Membership: As Low As $7.95/mo
Diamond Membership: As Low As $10.95/mo
Diamond Elite Membership: As Low As $16.95/mo

Directions to The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom

ALBANY, NY — 50 miles
Take I-87 North to Exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

BOSTON, MA — 220 miles
Take I-90 West (Mass Turnpike) to Exit B1. Follow I-90 to I-87 (Albany). Continue north on I-87 to exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

NEW YORK CITY — 210 miles
Take I-87 North (NYS Thruway) to exit 24 to Albany. Continue North on I-87 to Exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

MONTREAL, QUEBEC — 175 miles
Take I-87 South (Adirondack Northway) to Exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

BUFFALO, NY — 310 miles
Take I-90 East (NYS Thruway) to exit 24 to Albany. At Albany, continue north on I-87 (Adirondack Northway) to Exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately ¼ mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

RUTLAND, VT — 60 miles
Take Route 7 South to Route 4. Go west on Route 4 to Route 149 West. Follow Route 149 to Route 9 and turn left. Travel south on Route 9 approximately one mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

BURLINGTON, VT — 120 miles
Take Route 7 South to Route 22A in Vergennes. Follow 22A to Route 4 West. Follow Route 4 until Route 149 West. Turn right onto Route 149. Continue to Route 9 South. Travel south on Route 9 approximately one mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

ROCHESTER, NY — 240 miles
Take I-90 East (NYS Thruway) to exit 24 to Albany. At Albany, continue North on I-87 (Adirondack Northway) to Exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

SYRACUSE, NY — 165 miles
Take I-90 East (NYS Thruway) to exit 24 to Albany. At Albany, continue North on I-87 (Adirondack Northway) to Exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

HARTFORD, CT — 170 miles
Take I-84 East/US-6 toward Boston. Take exit 51 to I-91 North towards Springfield. Take exit 14 to I-90 West towards Albany (portions toll). Take exit B1 to I-90 West towards Route 9/Albany/Hudson (portions toll). Merge onto I-787 North toward Troy. Follow exit 9W to NY-7 towards Schenectady/I-87/Saratoga Springs. Merge onto I-87 North toward Saratoga Springs/Glens Falls. Continue north on I-87 to exit 20. Travel south on Route 9 approximately 1/4 mile and turn right onto Six Flags Drive.

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Parking

Preferred Parking: $30/ea (One day parking in the Preferred Parking lot)
2019 Season Parking Pass: $60/ea (Pass Holders can park all season at The Great Escape)
Free Parking for Gold Season Pass Holders

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Map 2019

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom Rides and Coasters List

If you are a thrill-seekers, don't miss the following roller coasters and several thrilling rides.

Flashback (previously called Boomerang) is a Vekoma-built shuttle coaster.  It features a single train which is pulled backwards up a large slope. It then plummets through a number of twists, turns and inversions, before racing back around the circuit in reverse.

The Comet is a classic wooden coaster with a traditional "out and back" layout. This coaster features a series of "airtime" hills and banked turns. The historic, 4,200-foot wooden coaster is regarded as one of the best of its kind in the world, with a top speed of 55 mph and wild curves creating tremendous hang time for its riders.

Greezed Lightnin', a seven-story, chaotic looping roller coaster, is unlike anything you have ever experienced. This steel monster towers over Hot Rod USA, delivering 360-degree thrills to those who are brave enough to ride!

 Steamin' Demon is one of the world's first looping corkscrew coasters that spent its early years operating at New Orleans' Pontchartrain Beach. It was the first major thrill ride built at Great Escape in the modern era and speeds across the 1,600-foot ride hit 40 mph with elevations of 95 feet.

Alpine Bobsled is a "Bobsled" type of roller coaster that is unique and increasingly rare. It is not locked onto a track, rather it flies along a trough to simulate an Olympic bobsled-style adventure.

Extreme Supernova is a pendulum ride that has you spinning around a central axis while you swing up to 50 feet in the air. Your view of the world changes as you come close to swinging upside down.

Sasquatch offers two distinct experiences. One tower is a Space Shot attraction, which blasts guests to the top at high speed. The other is a Turbo Drop, which lifts riders to the top and then sends them plummeting towards the ground below at faster-than-freefall speeds.

Pandemonium is a high speed spin ride  - billed as a "family ride" with a high thrill level. Up to 24 riders face outwards, accelerating rapidly to a high speed spin whilst tilting at all angles.

Dare Devil Dive is a 175 foot high bungee type experience. First, you’ll have to get to the top of a 175-foot tower before taking a flying leap from the top with nothing but sky to catch your fall. In a split second, you are released and plummeting back towards the earth in a state of total free fall. You can plan on hurtling toward the ground as fast as 60 mph.

It is worth mentioning that a number of kids' rides are spread across the Storytown and KIDZOPOLIS areas.  I believe your child will have a good time here.

ZoomJets is a basic children's ride. Young riders board miniature planes that rotate around a central column, and are able to control their height themselves.

Grand Carousel is a classic merry-go-round attraction, which sees guests boarding mock horses that bob up and down as they rotate on a central turntable.

Oakley’s Honey Swings is a junior chair-o-plane ride, in which kids sit in chairs that are suspended from a central structure. This spins rapidly, sending them swinging out to the sides.

Visiting the park on a hot day? The outdoor water park ——Splashwater Kingdom is the best place for you cooling down. There are more than 10 amazing attractions from large pools to lazy rivers and multi-passenger rafting adventures.

Paradise Plunge is a high altitude slide. As you step inside the capsule at the top of this record-breaking slide, you’ll stand and wait before the trap door underneath you opens unexpectedly and gravity sends you down the slide at nearly 90 degrees to a splash landing waiting below. A plunging rider is likely to hit speeds of up to 40 mph.

Tornado is a gigantic funnel that you ride in groups of four. Raft down a 132-foot tunnel into the mouth of a gigantic funnel.

Big Kahuna is a big 100-foot tunnel.  You’re dropped into an enormous bowl, and you’ll feel the power of centrifugal force as you spiral in a dramatic one-of-a-kind water stunt.

Hotels Near The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom

The price of Country Inn & Suites by Radisson, Lake George (Queensbury), NY near The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom from $136. You'll be within half a mile (1 km) of Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom and 2 miles (3 km) of Outlets at Lake George with a stay at this Queensbury hotel. Down-to-earth lodging offering free Wi-Fi, breakfast & parking, plus 2 pools & a BBQ area.

The Price of Home2 Suites by Hilton Queensbury Glens Falls near The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom low to $139. This relaxed extended-stay hotel is 3 miles from the Great Escape amusement park. Along with an indoor pool, this hotel has a 24-hour fitness center and coffee/tea in a common area. Free full breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. All 92 rooms feature kitchens with refrigerators, microwaves, and dishwashers, plus free WiFi, free wired Internet, and flat-screen TVs with cable channels.

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