Canyon Blaster is a steel roller coaster

Steel roller coaster

A steel roller coaster is a roller coaster that is defined by having a track made of steel. Steel coasters have earned immense popularity in the past 50 years throughout the world...

 located at The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom, Lake George

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom is an amusement and waterpark located in Queensbury, New York. It is advertised as being located in Lake George, New York...

 in Queensbury, New York

Queensbury, New York

Queensbury is a town in and the county seat of Warren County, New York, United States. The town is located in the southeastern part of the county. The population was 25,441 at the 2000 census. The town is named in honor of Queen Charlotte, the consort of George III of Great Britain and Ireland. It...

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Ride experience and theming

It is a gentle family-style coaster designed as a runaway mine train featuring two lift hills and a double helix. The ride has a red track with yellow supports. It has two trains, one brown and one blue, but in the past few years only the brown train has been used. In keeping with the Old West theme of the Ghosttown section of the park, the coaster is decorated with broken and crumbling artifacts from the era including a stagecoach, a broken steam train and the fake bones of dead animals. The outer fence is painted with mine blast warnings and notices of when the last (again fake) accident was.

History

This particular coaster previously operated as the Rock n' Roller Coaster

Rock n' Roller Coaster (Opryland)

Rock n' Roller Coaster was a steel roller coaster located at the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park in Nashville, Tennessee. Manufactured by Arrow Dynamics, the ride opened with the park in 1972 and remained its only full-size coaster until Wabash Cannonball opened in 1975 as part of a major park...

 at the now-defunct Opryland USA theme park

Opryland USA

Opryland USA was an amusement park located in suburban Nashville, Tennessee. It operated seasonally from 1972 until 1997...

 in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. At the Great Escape the coaster is slightly changed structurally and welded to fit its site in the park.