Disneyland Resort → Pixar Pal-A-Round
6.4 km · 28 postcards · designed for 2 days
Both Anaheim parks in a row: Disneyland from Main Street to the castle and beyond, across the Esplanade, then round Disney California Adventure.
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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California Adventure Gates
The gates face Disneyland's across the Esplanade. The park opened in 2001 and was rebuilt between 2007 and 2012.
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Buena Vista Street
Los Angeles in the 1920s, when Walt arrived with forty dollars. The Red Car Trolley runs down the middle to the Carthay Circle Theatre.
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Soarin' Around the World
A hang-glider flight over landmarks of six continents. The original Soarin' Over California opened here in 2001.
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Grizzly River Run
A round raft down the rapids of Grizzly Peak, the bear-shaped mountain. Nobody stays dry.
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure
A clamshell ride under the sea with Ariel, Sebastian and Ursula. It sits in Paradise Gardens Park.
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WEB SLINGERS: A Spider-Man Adventure
Sling webs with your own hands to catch runaway Spider-Bots. It opened in 2021 with Avengers Campus.
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Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
A taxi ride through Monstropolis after Boo. Roz is waiting at the end.
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout
A drop tower in the Collector's fortress, with drops timed to a mixtape. It replaced the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in 2017.
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Radiator Springs Racers
Ride through Ornament Valley, then race another car side by side. The Cadillac Range behind is shaped like the tail fins of 1950s cars.
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Incredicoaster
A long steel coaster right round the edge of Paradise Bay, rethemed to The Incredibles in 2018. Jack-Jack is loose somewhere on the track.
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Toy Story Midway Mania!
A 4-D midway of pies, darts and eggs fired at virtual targets. It opened here in 2008, the same year as Florida's.
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Pixar Pal-A-Round
A 150-foot wheel with swinging and fixed gondolas, the landmark of Pixar Pier. At night it lights up over the water during World of Color.
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