1950s

1954

In 1954 local businessman Charles R. Wood opened a small them park in Queensbury New York theamed to mothergoose farytails. This park was named Story Town USA and opened 1 year before Disneyland (as the park loves to boast). Opening day attractions include: The Swan Boats, the old shoe, Moby dick (orginaly located in what is now Timer Town), Jack and the Bean stock, and the many storytown houses. Aledgedly the night before the park opened, park founder Charly Wood sat on the second floor of the old shoe and cryed becuase he was afraid that his work would be a failure. Thankfuly, those fears were unfoudned as opening day would go onto be wildly successful.

1958

Despite the initial success, something was quickly noticed, while the small children and their mothers were enjoying the park, the older boys and their father were staying behind in their cars. To rectify this, Ghost Town was introduced as the high excitement western themed land. Today it remains the parks center for high thrills.

1960s

1963

Heading into the 1960s the park continued to expand adding more area like Jungle Land (most recently known as the Timer Town Trail, unfortunately it has not been open in many years).
Unfortunately, we do not have many maps for the 1960s, but we do have a few different pictures of this one that we be leave was from 1963.

1970s

The 70s saw continued expansion for the park including the introduction of the parks first rollercoaster, Italian Roller Coaster (located where Canon Ball Express and Convoy are today). Unfortunately we only have two maps from this time and are unsure of what year they are from. Other attractions added at this time that are still around include: Thunder Alley, Alice in Wonderland, Aladin's Magical Carpet Sky Ride(now known as Sky Ride), and the International Village.

The other map from later in the decade.

1980s

The 80s started off strong with the addition of Desperato Plunge in 1979. We are not entirly sure when the folowing map is from, but it is in the range of 1979 - 1981

1983

In 1983 The park officially changed its name from StoryTown USA to The Great Escape Fun Park. Unfortunately we do not have a map from this year.

1984

In 1984 the park opened its second coaster: Steamin' Demon. Fun fact, Steamin' Demon is the relocated prototype for the Arrow Loop and Corkscrew and will soon be the last one operating in the USA when Wild Waves Theme & Water Park closes forever on November 1st 2026.

1986

In 1986 the park introduced SkyLab. I feel the map in the image might not be the 1986 map, but we take what we can get.

1990s

1990

The late 80s saw the addition of Raging River and removal of Italian coaster. In 1989 Wood sold the park to International Broadcasting Corporation for $36 million. We are not entirly sure this map is from 1990 but given the presence of Condor we are fairly confident.

1993

In 1993 Wood bought the park back for less than half of what he sold it for.

1994

In 1994 The Comet was added to the park. This coaster has a long and interesting history that ended up with it being installed at the back of the park in 1994. Note: we are not entirely sure that this map if from 94 given the inclusion of some of the water park. It may be from 1995.

1995

1995 saw the addon of the parks watermark, Splash Water Kingdom. Interestingly, due to the position of the Comet at the back of the park, the water park ended up getting split in 2 by the access path to the Comet.

1996

After the completion of the water park, Charly Wood sold the park to Premier parks in 1996 who would later go on to purchase and rebrand to Six Flags.

1999

In the following years Six Flags pumped their parks full of roller coasters and The Great Escape was no exception. In 1997, they introduced Boomerang Coast to Coaster, the first Vekoma boomerang purchased by the company named Six Flags. This was the first ground up coaster the park ever got and would remain the only ground up coaster until 2024. In 1998 Alpine Bobsled was relocated from Six Flags Great America to The Great Escape. In 1999 Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon was relocated from Six Flags Darien Lake.

2000s

2000

Ok, who thought this was a good design for a park map?

2001

2002

2002 PDF

2004

In 2003 Canyon Blaster was introduced, this Arrow mine train was relocated Opryland USA. We do not have a 2003 map.

2005

In 2005 the park introduced a new kids area, Loony Toons National Park. They also took away all the pixels, apparently.

2005 PDF

2006

In 2006 there were no new rides but there was a brand-new parking lot, pedestrian bridge, onsite hotel and indoor water park. 2006 would be the last year Nightmare would operate, being dismantled in 2008. Also, it looks like someone remembered to pay the pixel bill.

2007

Oh no they forgot to pay the pixel bill again. This year they finally added something to the water park, the same tornado ride Six Fags was adding to all their water park around this time.

2008

In 2008 the park introduced their second kids area: Wiggles World, themed to the Australian kids band of that name. Additionally, they also added a new slide to the water park, The Mega Wedgy!

2009

This year saw the introduction of the park's S&S drop tower Sasquatch. This ride was relocated from the former Six Flags New Orleans. The man who operated this ride on opening day still works at the park and like to mention this fact. In 2009 the park would host their only ever holiday in the park event.

2009 PDF

2010s

2010

For some reason we also have a kids map for this year. They mangled the park a lot for this one.

KIDS PDF

2011

For the 2011 season The Great Escape removed all external IPs from the park. This mostly took the form of re-theming the 2 kids areas. Loony Toons national park was turned into Timber Town and Wiggles World was turned into Kidzopolis.

2011 PDF

2012

In 2012 the park added the Alpine Freefalls water slide complex.

2013

In 2013 the park added Screamin' Eagles, the flying scooters ride model.

2013 PDF

2014

In 2014 the park introduced Extreme Supernova, A pendulum style ride.

2014 PDF

2015

In 2015 the kids part of the water park was rethemed from Noah's arc to pirates

2016

In 2016 the park added Greezed Lightnin'. Before the season they said it was going to be a "rollercoaster that does a bunch of loops", A LARSON LOOP IS NOT A ROLLER COASTER. A long with this addition they rethemed the area in the front of the park to hotrod USA, this theme is based on 1950s cars/hotrods. This was also the year they put VR on Steamin' Demon

2017

In 2017 the park added Bonzai Pipelines to the Alpine Freefalls slide complex.

2018

In 2018 the park added Pandemonium, unline other Six Flags parks this is not a Gerstlauer spinning coaster but rather a Chance Rides Wipeout. In fact this was the prototype for this ride model.

2019

The addition for 2019 was Bucket Blasters. When this ride was added, the rides of kidzopolis were removed apart from the planes ride in that area. It was at this time that the water park themed was changed from Splash Water Kingdom to the Six Flags standard Hurricane Harbor.

2019 PDF

2020s

2021

In 2021 the park opened Adirondack Outlaw. This ride was originally intended to open in 2020 but a certain pandemic prevented that from happening. Also near the start of the 2021 season the path facing pars of the helix on Canyon Blaster was repainted, just those bits despite the rest of the ride also badly needing a repaint. No map changes occurred between 2021 and 2022.

2022

2022 PDF

Also, we have a fright fest map!

2023

2023 saw the removal of the flying Trapeze. This was also the last season for Alpine Bobsled.

2024

2024 saw the introduction of The Bobcat, the park's first new coaster in 21 years. Also love this new map style.

2024 PDF

Another Fright Fest Map

2025

While no rides were added in 2025 the park's boomerang: Flashback experienced a major refurbishment. This started with a fresh paint job at the end of the 2024 season. Hang on this map looks familiar.

2025 PDF

We once again have a fright fest map!

2025 fright fest PDF

At the end of the 2025 season a new map appeared on the Six Flags app and in park, this new map matched the style of the rest of the chain. This map never appeared on the website so we do not have it here. The 2025 Fright Fest map does have this style though.

2026

On April 6th 2026 The Great Escape along with 5 other Six Flags parks were sold to EPR Properties and Enchanted parks. The park retained the Six Flags branding through the 2026 season but was no longer operated by Six Flags. This year saw no new addons but did see the removal of the plains ride in Timer Town, Rockies Ranger Planes. This map style sucks.

2026 PDF

This website was initially created less than a week before opening day 2026, all content from here on has been added "in real time".