A New Day Dawns at Disney California Adventure Park

It’s no secret that big changes are underway at Disney California Adventure Park, one of the jewels of Disneyland Resort. Some of the new additions have already been unveiled – but much more is on the way. Today The Insider is honored to give you a peek behind the wall with looks at two big additions to the Park, both slated to open this summer – a whole new beginning to the day for Guests arriving at Disney California Adventure, and a magical new land where they will enter the world of Disney·Pixar’s “Cars.”

First, Imagineer Coulter Winn gives us a look at Buena Vista Street, a trip back in time to Walt Disney’s Los Angeles in all its nostalgia and glamour. 

COULTER WINN: My role on this project started about six years ago. The design team was asked to look at creating a more compelling and story-driven entry to Disney’s California Adventure. And what came out of that was a concept of transforming the entry for the Park into a period street, much the way that Main Street at Disneyland takes our Guests to Walt’s hometown of Marceline, Missouri.

We decided to re-create the Los Angeles that Walt Disney experienced when he first arrived here in 1923, a street that told the story of the first couple of decades of Walt’s experience in California…

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