Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon
| Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon | |
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Building exterior and entrance to the Nightmare. | |
| Great Escape | |
| Park section | Ghosttown |
| Coordinates | 43°21′09″N 73°41′33″W / 43.352491°N 73.692515°WCoordinates: 43°21′09″N 73°41′33″W / 43.352491°N 73.692515°W |
| Status | Closed |
| Opening date | 1999 |
| Closing date | 2006 |
| Darien Lake | |
| Status | Relocated to Great Escape |
| Opening date | 1996 |
| Closing date | 1998 |
| Kentucky Kingdom | |
| Status | Relocated to Darien Lake |
| Opening date | 1987 |
| Closing date | 1995 |
| Beech Bend | |
| Status | Relocated to Kentucky Kingdom |
| Opening date | Unknown |
| Closing date | 1984 |
| General statistics | |
| Type | Steel – Enclosed |
| Manufacturer | Anton Schwarzkopf |
| Model | Twister roller coaster |
| Lift/launch system | Chain lift hill |
| Height | 44 ft (13 m) |
| Length | 1,765 ft (538 m) |
| Speed | 31 mph (50 km/h) |
| Inversions | 0 |
| Height restriction | 48 in (122 cm) |
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Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon at RCDB Pictures of Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon at RCDB | |
Nightmare at Crack Axle Canyon was a steel roller coaster of twister at Great Escape in Queensbury, New York. This simple steel coaster was enclosed in a warehouse-like building allowing the cars to run in the dark giving a heightened sense of disorientation as the cars go around the sharp curves of the track.
The coaster was placed in the park’s Ghosttown area and was appropriately themed with Old West decoration.
History
Before coming to The Great Escape, Nightmare was located at Beech Bend Park and Kentucky Kingdom as Starchaser, and Darien Lake (formerly Six Flags Darien Lake) as Nightmare at Phantom Cave. The 2006 season was the last season that the roller coaster was open at The Great Escape. The park has confirmed in the past the coaster is no longer and has been scrapped. It is presumed the coaster was scrapped shortly after its 2006 closure. In 2013, at The Great Escape during Fright Fest (Halloween event) the building is used for a haunted house.
Capacity issues
The trains were single cars with a capacity of four riders, there could be up to two in each row. Due to the small number of riders allowed on the Nightmare and the car design, wait periods were often lengthy; signs were posted in the queue line, listing times up to two and a half hours. To remedy this, the new Flash Pass system (named for the Flash, a licensed DC Comics character) was introduced in 2006. Riders arriving at the Nightmare were given a ticket and asked to return at a designated time, when lines were noticeably shorter.