Today is Fun Fact Friday, but also a unique holiday! Last week was “make up your holiday-day” and today is national- “Take a walk in the park day.” Now to a “normal” non disney obsessed person… they would probably assume that taking a walk in the park would mean going to the park around the corner, or visiting your nearest national or metro park (we have a ton of GREAT parks near our home.) To this mouskaholic though, the words “Take a Walk in the Park” immediately makes me think DISNEY parks 🙂 . So for fun fact friday today we will look at the mileage involved in walking through each of the Walt Disney World and Disneyland parks.
Magic Kingdom- If you went all the way around the park with minimal doubling back you’re looking at a minimum of walking 1.85 miles. That does not include the walk to and from the transportation areas, that is simply in the park-
Walking map of Magic Kingdom park if you were to do a single loop of the park- 1.85 miles
Now Epcot is significantly larger than Magic Kingdom. Just to walk around the World Showcase Lagoon in itself is 1.2 miles, and when you add Future World in you’re looking at a minimum of 2.64 miles.
With all of the construction at Hollywood Studios, and it being one of the smaller parks anyway, you’re looking at a much shorter walking distance (again these are just if you were to walk to all the attractions, no going in, waiting in line, no doubling back) . So at Hollywood studios pre-toy story land and pre-Star Wars land you’re looking at approximately a 1.4 mile walk total.
Your second to longest walk comes in around 2.45 miles at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. This is the largest park in square mileage at Disney, but luckily to explore some of the areas you get special transportation… like the safari area you need to be in the safari cars, and to get to Rafiki’s planet watch you take a train to get out there. This has the potential to be a LOT of walking depending on how you’ve planned your day!
Now let’s head to the park where it all started! Disneyland in Anaheim California!
Disneyland is physically a smaller park, you’re looking at the same amount of walking at you would at Disney’s Magic Kingdom… 1.85 miles, and that is mostly because Toon Town is a little farther out of the way
One of my favorite things that makes Disneyland different than WDW is that you can walk in between the two parks, where the WDW property is so spread out, it makes it nearly impossible (you can walk between Epcot and Hollywood Studios). So let’s take a walk across the esplanade over to Disney’s California Adventure park 🙂
I’m always amazed at how many awesome things they can pack into 1.4 miles, but they’ve definitely managed at DCA 🙂 . Things to keep in mind about walking at Disneyland is the you can walk from your hotel, and you’ll walk through Disney Springs or the main gate to get to either park. While the parks are a little one the smaller side in comparison to WDW, the walking potential is still quite high.
While what I mapped above is just a simple route around each park, there is the potential of doing MANY more miles while you’re there. Make sure you have good walking shoes! Mr. Mouskaholic and I average around 7-9 miles per day when we go! So who is ready to take a walk in your favorite Disney parks?
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