Height Requirements for Disneyland and California Adventure

Planning a trip with your young ones to the Magical Kingdom?  Many of the attractions have height requirements.  Nothing is worse than hiking your way through the park to that attraction you cannot wait to enjoy and then finding one of your family members cannot ride.  So in the interest of avoiding tears and tantrums, the following list provides those rides with height requirements…

Disneyland

Autopia – must be at least 32 inches (81 cm) and accompanied by another rider OR 54 inches (137 cm) to drive alone.

Must be at least 35 inches (89 cm)…

• Gadget’s Go Coaster (Mickey’s Toontown)
• Matterhorn Bobsleds (Fantasyland)

Must be at least 40 inches (102 cm)…

• Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (Frontierland)
• Space Mountain (Tomorrowland)
• Star Tours (Tomorrowland)
• Splash Mountain (Critter Country)

Must be at least 46 inches (117 cm)…

• Indiana Jones Adventure (Adventureland)

California Adventure

Must be at least 36 inches (91 cm)…

• Tuck and Roll’s Drive ‘Em Buggies (“a bug’s land”)

Must be at least 40 inches (102 cm)…

• Jumpin’ Jellyfish (Paradise Pier)
• Silly Symphony Swings – tandem swing (Paradise Pier)
• Soarin’ Over California (Condor Flats)
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (Hollywood Pictures Backlot)

Must be at least 42 inches (107 cm)…

• Grizzly River Run (Condor Flats)
• Redwood Creek Challenge Trail – certain challenges only (Condor Flats)

Must be at least 48 inches (122 cm)…

• California Screamin’ (Paradise Pier)
• Silly Symphony Swings – single swing (Paradise Pier)

Must be at least 50 inches (132 cm)…

• Maliboomer (Paradise Pier)

Can anyone say “platform shoes”?

By the way, Magic Mornings (early park entrance days) are Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.