great escape

The human puke-bucket known as the Rotor represents a piece of my childhood, and maybe yours, that quite frankly couldn’t exist today, probably for good reason.

Ready for a wave of Upstate New York nostalgia?

The Adventure Family Fun Center was on the market for a while and last June the price was reduced to $1.5 million. This property just sold for $1.15 million. Will it remain a fun amusement park in the Lake George tourist region or do the new owners have other plans?

An upstate New York attraction has just been named one of the ten best in the world!

Summer is almost here and that means we can soon head back to Six Flags Great Escape!

Remember this classic attraction at the Great Escape? Jungle Land opened in 1960 and was shut down in the mid 2000's, but thankfully, its nostalgia lives on YouTube!

The Great Escape in Lake George turned 70 this year, and these are some of our all-time favorite rides and attractions, ranked. What are yours?

First responders don't want this to happen.

Surfing in Cohoes?

Growing up in the Capital Region in the 1980s, it was fun to travel up the Northway and spend the day at The Great Escape Amusement Park (formerly Storytown). We couldn't wait to get there and travel through Ghost Town and become a deputy with Marshal Wild Windy Bill McKay. But one of the highlights of the day was the death-defying high dive act.

It looks as if we are going to finally have a summer like we are used to in the Capital Region. With that comes a lot of opportunities. There are two iconic places in the Capital Region that are hiring a ton of positions for the summer of 2022.

These are some of the earliest pictures of Storytown USA in Lake George. They're over 70-years-old, and date all the way back to 1954, the year it opened!