Earlier this year, four members of the Coaster101 team visited Six Flags Darien Lake for the first time to check out the park’s collection of eight coasters and other attractions. While Darien Lake has a...
Another coaster celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year is the Intamin-built Ride of Steel at Darien Lake, located just outside of Buffalo, New York. Background Six Flags Darien Lake has gone back and forth between...
Darien Lake has opened for the 2019 season with a new name and a new “star” attraction: the Six Flags SkyScreamer. Adding to the excitement, the park has officially rejoined the Six Flags family and...
After a short one-year break, Give Kids The World has announced the return of their popular “Coasting for Kids” program, and this time, it’s bigger and better than ever! From 2009-2015, Coasting For Kids took...
Six Flags recently announced all of their 2019 projects. The Coaster101 team got together to discuss our thoughts on the whole range of announcements, including what surprised us, what we’re most excited about, and what...
It was a big day for Six Flags today, as the company announced the chain’s 2019 additions. From children’s areas to new roller coasters, each park in the chain will receive some form of capital...
Darien Lake officially opened Tantrum, a Gerstlauer euro-fighter coaster, on Friday, June 1 — though it had soft opened to guests over the Memorial Day weekend. The ride was manufactured by Gerstlauer Amusement Rides and was...
The Six Flags name will once again fly above Darien Lake and Frontier City. Six Flags today announced that it had acquired “lease rights” to operate two former Six Flags theme parks and three additional...
In 2015, Darien Lake will add a “freefall” double water slide and a seven-story “giant loop” to the park’s ride and slide lineup. Learn more about these two new attractions below: Rolling Thunder Standing seven stories tall,...
Opening this year at Darien Lake is Rowdy’s Ridge, an entire area of the park dedicated to fun attractions for the entire family. New attractions making their debut in the Rowdy’s Ridge area include Rowdy’s...
The amusement industry has received a lot of national media attention the past few weeks due to a series of tragic and unfortunate accidents (and other non-events completely blown out of proportion). We thought it...
Herschend Family Entertainment, the owners of both Dollywood and Silver Dollar City, will take over management of Elitch Gardens and Darien Lake beginning today, January 25, 2011. The company released the following press release: “January...
