Buena Vista Street, Themed area in Anaheim, California, United States
Buena Vista Street is the entrance land of Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, built as a street of 1920s Los Angeles around Hyperion Avenue. Its centerpiece is a small-scale working replica of the Hyperion Bridge that carries the Disneyland monorail, and the street ends at a recreation of the Carthay Circle Theater.
Sunshine Plaza, the park's original entrance hub, was replaced after The Walt Disney Company announced a $1.1 billion expansion on October 17, 2007. Construction of Buena Vista Street began in October 2010 and the land opened on June 15, 2012. The Golden Gate Bridge replica and sunburst fountain gave way to a Carthay Circle Theater recreation, site of the 1937 Snow White premiere.
The street's name comes from the real Buena Vista Street in Burbank, where the Walt Disney Studios stand, yet the plaza itself depicts Los Feliz around Hyperion Avenue in the 1920s. Shops carry period names such as Elias & Co., Julius Katz & Sons, Kingswell Camera Shop and Oswald, and the Carthay Circle Theater replica recalls the 1937 Snow White premiere.
The land links the park's main gate to Avengers Campus, with the Hyperion Bridge replica carrying the Disneyland monorail overhead. Dining and shops line the route, including Carthay Circle Restaurant, Clarabelle's Hand-Scooped Ice Cream, Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Café, Elias & Co. and Julius Katz & Sons. A Red Car Trolley has been parked on the street for photos since the line closed on February 8, 2025.
The street incorporates a replica of the Hyperion Bridge and architectural references to the Los Feliz neighborhood where Walt Disney lived when he first arrived in California. These details pay tribute to Disney's personal connection to the city during its formative years.
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