Disneyland Gates → Sleeping Beauty Castle
3.3 km · 16 postcards · designed for 1 day
Walt's original park in Anaheim, walked from the gates: Main Street, Adventureland, New Orleans Square, Bayou Country, Galaxy's Edge, Frontierland, Tomorrowland, Fantasyland and Toontown, ending at the castle.
Along the way
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Disneyland Gates
The only Disney park Walt Disney walked himself, opened in July 1955. The plaque over the tunnels reads: Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow and fantasy.
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Town Square
City Hall, the fire station and the railroad station around a flagpole. Walt kept an apartment above the fire station, and a lamp still burns in its window.
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Jungle Cruise
The skippered river trip that opened with the park in 1955. The jokes have been getting worse ever since.
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Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
A runaway mine train through Big Thunder's red rocks on the Rivers of America. The town of Rainbow Ridge sits at the bottom.
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Pirates of the Caribbean
The last ride Walt Disney worked on, opened in 1967 in New Orleans Square. The boats drift past the Blue Bayou restaurant before the first drop.
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Indiana Jones Adventure
A troop transport bouncing through the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, opened in 1995. The queue alone is a tour of the excavation.
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Haunted Mansion
A white antebellum mansion on the river, opened in 1969. Its stretching room is really an elevator going down.
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Tiana's Bayou Adventure
The flume that used to be Splash Mountain, rethemed to The Princess and the Frog in 2024. It ends with a big drop into Tiana's celebration.
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Rise of the Resistance
A whole mission on Batuu: captured by the First Order, then a breakout through a Star Destroyer. It opened in 2020.
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Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Fly the Falcon with a crew of six, each with a job in the cockpit. The ship is full size, parked in Black Spire Outpost.
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Mickey's Toontown
A cartoon town where the buildings lean and wobble, with Mickey's and Minnie's houses. It reopened in 2023 with more green space.
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"it's a small world"
The singing dolls brought home from the 1964 World's Fair, behind a white and gold facade by Mary Blair. Its clock tower parades figures every quarter hour.
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Matterhorn Bobsleds
A one-hundredth-scale Matterhorn with bobsleds racing inside it, opened in 1959. It was the first tubular steel coaster in the world.
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Space Mountain
Tomorrowland's coaster in the dark, opened at Disneyland in 1977. Astronauts of the Mercury program were there for opening day.
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Partners Statue
Walt and Mickey hand in hand in the hub, first unveiled here in 1993. The castle is behind them and Main Street in front.
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Sleeping Beauty Castle
The first Disney castle, opened in 1955 and only 77 feet tall. Its drawbridge has been lowered twice.
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