I haven’t done any technical calculations. On a quick glance I’d say all of this parking is about half the size of the park itself. Very little parking inside the main park boundaries, which is mostly for service vehicles (these spaces aren’t highlighted).
Just something I was curious about, it’s wild how much we accommodate, and how much space we waste, for cars.
Edit: not shown is the large lot southeast of the park. It is about three times the size of the lot to the southwest. There are other lots further outside the picture that add additional parking space not shown. Thanks to RvTV95XBeo for pointing this out.
That is huge but if I’m being honest I thought it would be bigger.
It is. The largest lot is cut off this map, to the southeast of the park.
You missed the biggest lot - Toy Story Lot, Southeast of the park
Also, the employee parking garage (just south of your northern-most lot), and the employee parking lot across Ball Road (north off the map). Gotta zoom out to even see it all.
You’re right, including that lot would have been a considerable difference in overall parking capacity. Even with the lots highlighted there’s still a tremendous amount of pavement.
Remember, we’re in the Itchy lot.
Make an update post including the southern parking lots. Include The convention center since it’s on the same vicinity.
I’m surprised they don’t build structures over the parking lots. Or are these all multi-story parking structures already?
One thing that I’m waiting to see happen is a mass transit line from Disneyland to ARTIC, especially when ARTIC gets connected to California’s High Speed Rail.
It probably won’t without a push from someone, but the region seems ready for a line from Disneyland through the Anaheim Convention Center, ARTIC, and up to the stadiums.
Most of the guests are coming from outside the city/state. Unless we built a national high speed railway, I don’t see how this could be avoided.
Shuttle/train from the airport? Doesn’t seem too difficult to solve honestly.
Flying commercial has a larger carbon footprint than just driving a car.
Anyone coming from out of country is probably flying, which is a significant amount. Anyone coming from the eastern half of the continent is probably too.
You’re forgetting to account for the other parts of the vacation experience. Hotels, restaurants, and other tourist attractions. While you can probably fulfill this with various forms of public transit, a lot of this would require undoing decades of car centric city design. From the perspective of a park, parking lots are a much simpler (though unpleasant) solution.
Fair point. But I still think that would be doable. Might take some time. Odious as parking lots are, they aren’t the worst aspect of cars on cities, so I don’t mind if we wait to eliminate them until other alternatives are present.
we need a shuttle from disneyland to the anahiem HSR station when it’s built
You’re missing 2 more lots!
On the opposite side of the Harbor and Ball Rd. intersection there’s another parking lot. This is “Ball Lot” and is used by employees. Employees need a shuttle to get to work.
Further down Katella, across the street from the convention center, there’s Toy Story/“K Lot”, which is a combination parking lot for guests and more employee parking. This is the largest parking lot of them all, taking up an entire city block.
The lot you’ve marked across from House of Blues is indeed a Disney lot but it is rarely used. Additionally, the “lot” you’ve marked inside California Adventure isn’t a “real” parking lot - just a place for storage of maintenance trucks and stuff that rarely leaves the bounds of the park. If you’re counting those, there’s a lot more area you should count (all of the outside of Indiana Jones/Haunted Mansion, everything from the backside of Space Mountain to Main Street). There’s also a parking garage just below the spot you’ve marked in Team Disney Anaheim - that gray structure to the south of the parking lot is a parking garage for corporate folks that have their office behind the park.
(I used to work at Disneyland.)
