New Orleans Square

Disneyland Resort


New Orleans Square has all the charm of the eponymous city's French Quarter but none of the marauding drunks. New Orleans was the favorite city of Walt and his wife Lillian, and he paid tribute to it by building this stunning square lined with restaurants and attractions.

Pirates of the Caribbean is the longest ride in Disneyland (17 minutes) and provided ‘inspiration’ for the popular movies. You’ll float through the subterranean haunts of tawdry pirates, where dead buccaneers perch atop their mounds of booty and Jack Sparrow pops up occasionally. Over at the Haunted Mansion, 999 ‘happy haunts’ – spirits, goblins, shades and ghosts – appear and evanesce while you ride in a cocoon-like ‘Doom Buggy’ through web-covered graveyards of dancing skeletons.


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1. Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island

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Frontierland’s Tom Sawyer Island – the only attraction in the park personally designed by Uncle Walt – has been reimagined in the wake of the Pirates of…

2. Pirates of the Caribbean

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Pirates of the Caribbean is the longest ride in Disneyland (17 minutes) and one of the longest running, opened in 1967. That's half a century of folks…

3. Haunted Mansion

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A total of 999 ‘happy haunts’ – spirits, goblins and ghosts – appear and evanesce while you ride in a cocoon-like ‘Doom Buggy’ through web-covered…

5. Indiana Jones Adventure

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Enormous Humvee-type vehicles lurch and jerk their way through the wild for spine-tingling encounters with creepy crawlies and scary skulls in re…

6. Splash Mountain

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Critter Country’s main attraction is this flume ride through the story of Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, based on the controversial 1946 film Song of the…

7. Mark Twain Riverboat

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One of Disneyland's original rides from 1955, the Mississippi River–style paddle-wheeler Mark Twain Riverboat offers a relaxing cruise on the Rivers of…

8. Sailing Ship Columbia

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Take a slow boat on the Rivers of America in this replica of an 18th-century sailing ship.