List of former Disney California Adventure attractions


Disney California Adventure is the second theme park built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, United States. This is a list of attractions – rides, shows, and parades – that have appeared at the park but have permanently closed. Character meets and atmosphere entertainment are not listed.

Buena Vista Street

2001–2011, Sunshine Plaza: Sunshine Plaza, originally Entry Plaza, was one of the park's original four themed areas. Located at the entrance of the park, Sunshine Plaza was a collection of stores and food service locations. It included an abstract theme meant to evoke the feeling of stepping into a giant postcard. Outside the park's entrance gates were three-dimensional sculptures of letters which spelled out "CALIFORNIA". Giant tile mosaic murals resembling scenes from California lined both sides of the park entrance. A replica of the Golden Gate Bridge served as a façade for the Disneyland Monorail track. The south end of the plaza featured a large sun icon sculpture with a fountain beneath it, which splashed water in a manner reminiscent of ocean waves. Reflectors located around the plaza would reflect real sunlight into the sun icon causing it to gleam in the daytime. The west side of the plaza included a non-functioning replica of the California Zephyr which housed two food service locations. The park's daily parades originally began on the east side of the sun icon.
In 2011, the Sunshine Plaza was closed, renovated, and completely remodeled as part of the park's 2007–2012 redesign and renovation. The California Zephyr locomotive was removed and donated to the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, California. The sun icon was donated to the city of Anaheim for future use. The "CALIFORNIA" letters were donated to Friends of the California State Fair, a nonprofit organization, and currently sit at the entrance to the CalExpo fairgrounds. The area reopened in 2012 as Buena Vista Street, a representation of Los Angeles in the 1930s. The buildings that housed Sunshine Plaza's stores and restaurants still house stores and restaurants under the present theme, while the sun plaza is now the site of a replica of the Carthay Circle Theater, which houses a restaurant.

Hollywood Land

Hollywood Land was known as Hollywood Pictures Backlot from 2001–2012.
Attractions closed while part of Golden State include:
was originally one of the sub-areas of Golden State. It was themed to a desert airfield and testing facility, and it celebrated California's aeronautic history. It became its own land in the park in 2012. It closed in 2015 to become the Grizzly Peak Airfield, a new subarea of Grizzly Peak.

Grizzly Peak

was originally one of the sub-areas of Golden State. It became its own land in 2012. In 2015, Condor Flats closed and became the Grizzly Peak Airfield, a sub-area of Grizzly Peak.
Cars Land opened in June 2012. Inspired by the 2006 Disney·Pixar film Cars, it is a 12-acre land that recreates the town of Radiator Springs from the film. The land includes rides, shops, and restaurants.
As part of the park's $1.1 billion expansion, the land known as Paradise Pier from January 8, 2001 to June 22, 2018 was renovated and rethemed from a modern seaside amusement park reminiscent of the Santa Monica Pier, to a late 1920s Victorian era seaside boardwalk. Many attractions, shops, and restaurants were either removed or rethemed. The original Route 66 section of Paradise Pier was rethemed to fit the new look of the area, with the Route 66 theme being retired. Again, many of the attractions were rethemed when the land became Pixar Pier on June 23, 2018. Part of this Land was renamed Paradise Gardens Park on June 22, 2018.

Parades