CenTOONial Park

March 2023 – present

LOCATION

Mickey’s Toontown – CenTOONial park is one of the first spaces you’ll see when entering Toontown. Once you walk beneath the bridge, the park entrance will be on your left, at the top of the slightly inclined hill.

BACKGROUND

In spring 2022, Disneyland closed Mickey’s Toontown and announced plans to update and enhance the land as a whole. Part of the goal was to create more accessible and open play spaces for children, offering little ones a much-needed reprieve from lines and chaos in the rest of the park. The CenTOONial Park opened alongside the rest of Toontown 2.0 in March 2023.

EXPERIENCE

Details:

Single rider line – no
Lightning lane – no
Height Requirement – none
Duration – n/a

CenTOONial park is a free play space, with interactive features that include:

An interactive fountain with water tables for splash play
A dreaming tree with oversized roots to climb and explore
Gentle hills to race around and play on

Around the park, you’ll also find benches for parents and kids alike to rest on, most of which are situated in the shade.

MY RATING – ★★☆☆☆

Whether or not you have little ones in your group, CenTOONial Park is a place to take a breather. It’s also close to the train station if you want to make a pit stop here before riding to another land. The park is a lot more “bare bones” than the interactive features might suggest – you’ll basically watch little ones run around astroturf for a while. But nonetheless, it’s a shady place to chill out for a bit or let the kiddos get some energy out.

VISITNG TIPS

This area closes early on evenings with fireworks performances, as does the rest of Toontown. Otherwise, there’s no better or worse time to visit, as it’s an open park and requires no waiting in line.

TRIVIA

CenTOONial Park is a spoof of Centennial Park, which is a name for parks in several cities in the US (most notably Nashville).

According to Disney lore, the dreaming tree in the park is inspired by the tree a young Walt Disney “would daydream under in his hometown of Marceline, Missouri”.