Attractions and Places of Interest in New York

The Great Escape & Splashwater Kingdom
Route 9, Lake George, NY 12845
Phone: 518 792-3500

Over 135 rides, shows, and attractions including a variety of roller coasters and a full outdoor water park! The Great Escape has SEVEN roller coasters including a mine train - a great family coaster with two lift hills, an exciting double helix and more than 2,000' of track! On the Boomerang Coaster to Coaster, riders are slowly drawn backwards to the top of the first imposing lift. Then, unexpectedly, the train is released and riders begin a harrowing journey through loops and corkscrews before climbing to the top of a second gigantic lift to do the whole thing again, in reverse. For smaller family members, get up close and personal with your favorite superheroes and become immersed in the World of the Justice League or visit the Looney Tunes adventure park. Splashwater Kingdom offers all the water fun you can imagine. With thrill rides, lazy river, rapids, slides, pools and brand new for 2007, the Tornado - From atop a viewing platform 50 feet in the air, guests will get a bird’s eye view of Splashwater Kingdom before boarding a four person cloverleaf shaped raft. Once aboard the raft, fun-seekers will plunge through a winding tunnel before blasting out into a 60-foot wide giant funnel, splashing back and forth on 5,000 gallons of water.

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The Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. New York, NY 10118

New York's famous Empire State Building, a New York City Landmark and a National Historic Landmark, soars more than a quarter of a mile into the atmosphere above the heart of Manhattan. Located on the 86th floor, 1,050 feet (320 meters) above the city's bustling streets, the Observatory offers panoramic views from within a glass enclosed pavilion and from the surrounding open-air promenade. Since the Observatory opened to the public in 1931, almost 110 million visitors have thrilled to the awe-inspiring vision of the city beneath them.

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Petrified Sea Gardens
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866

The Petrified Sea Gardens is a beautiful outdoor park that is home to almost an acre of exposed Stromatolite fossils approximately 500-million-years old. This huge slab of fossils was once part of an ocean-reef existing when the area that is now Saratoga Springs was in the southern hemisphere at the edge of a warm tropical sea, (the continent straddled the equator) and life was yet to bloom on land. Among many other points of interest along the trail are: a labyrinth, a Native-American Medicine Wheel, a sundial garden, fossil rock-gardens, and a huge 300-year-old white pine tree: the "Iroquois Pine."