If you follow us over on Instagram, you may remember we recently asked the trivia question: Which Disney park has the MOST attractions?
Cinderella Castle
We received over 30,000 replies, and as it turns out, over 20,000 (20,098 to be exact) got the trivia question WRONG!
Followers had to choose between the two options of either Disneyland Park or Magic Kingdom for which one they thought had more attractions. The correct answer…is Disneyland!
Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle
Disney’s websites list a total of 41 rides and attractions at Magic Kingdom, whereas Disneyland Park has a total of 55 rides and attractions! That’s roughly a third more than Magic Kingdom.
Space Mountain
There are a lot of “overlapping” attractions at both parks, including Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Splash Mountain, Jungle Cruise, Peter Pan’s Flight, “it’s a small world,” and more.
Haunted Mansion
But Disneyland has a slew of unique attractions, including Indiana Jones Adventure, Matterhorn, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, Snow White’s Scary Adventure, Pinocchio’s Daring Journey, and Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, just to name a few.
Disneyland
Don’t forget that attractions include classics like Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln, Main Street Cinema, as well as the walkthrough attraction inside Sleeping Beauty Castle!
Mickey’s House in Toontown
Disneyland Park is definitely small, but it’s mighty. It even GREW in 2019 with the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, adding two attractions to its list (Rise of the Resistance and Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run).
Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Disneyland Guide Map
When you dig into it, you’ll find that Magic Kingdom is actually the SMALLEST Disney World park at approximately 107 acres. A lot of our Instagram followers also thought that Magic Kingdom is bigger than it actually is!
Main Street, U.S.A.
There’s no doubt that BOTH of these parks sure know how to pack rides and attractions into their relatively small footprint. But how does Disneyland have MORE rides and attractions than Magic Kingdom?
Disneyland’s Adventureland
If you’ve walked around Disneyland Park, you might notice that it’s “tighter” than Magic Kingdom. As Walt himself put it, Florida gave the company the blessing of size, which meant wider walkways and more elbow room in between rides. At Disneyland, those rides are CRAMMED in there (think about all of the classic dark rides shoved into Fantasyland!).
©Disney
In the coming years, BOTH of these parks will add to their total attraction count, with TRON Lightcycle Run coming to Tomorrowland in Magic Kingdom in 2022 and Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway coming to Mickey’s Toontown in Disneyland Park in 2023!
TRON Construction Update
No matter which of these classic “castle” parks has more attractions, there’s no doubt that BOTH are filled with rides for the whole family, and you can easily spend an entire day (and then some!) trying to get everything done.
Click here to see the latest progress in TRON’s construction!
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Having grown up in South Florida, Disney World’s Magic Kingdom will always reign supreme for me. I’ve actually never been to Disneyland and have never really felt the need to since I’ve got Disney World just down the road.
We lived in Southern California for 23 years, and could even hear and see the summer fireworks from Disneyland each summer. Been there hundreds of times. But we’ve also been DVC members for over 25 years, so we enjoy MK as well. I’ve got to give it to Disneyland though; especially since it has the Indians Jones ride.
Of course it’s the original Magic Kingdom right here at Disneyland. We love the MK at WDW but it doesn’t compare to ours.
DVC Members since 2008. Northern California