Sunshine Plaza is where you first walk into when you go into California Adventure. You will see the San Francisco Bridge, a huge shiny sun, a train and a few palm trees.  In the afternoon Sunshine Plaza is very calm and kind of quiet. At 11:00am, 12:30pm and 3:00pm there is a High School Musical production shown and it’s really loud. People are dressed up like people from the movie, they sing and they dance. The High School Musical production is also shown in Disneyworld. A picture of High School Musical is to the left from California Adventure. At night, around 9pm when the park is closed, the Sunshine Plaza is full of people trying to leave.

When you first walk up to the Hollywood Pictures Back lot you will see two Egyptian pharaoh dogs with a sigh that says “Hollywood Pictures Back lot” and a huge painted blue sky in front of you. If you walk straight and turn left you’ll see Monster’s Inc the ride. If you go to the right you will see the tower of Terror. This ride drops you 13 stories randomly and goes right left, up and down, forwards and back. When you first go into the Hollywood Tower Hotel you’ll the 50’s hotel lobby. You go into a library with a TV and it shows the hotel getting struck by lightning. Then a door opens up and you go into the basement. There are three elevators, but you will only ride one. When you come off the ride you’re off for good… unless you want to go on again!

Paradise Pier is set up as like a 50s beach in California where a carnival is. There is face painting, tattoos, a lake and a whole bunch of other fun things to do. There are quite a few rides to rides: California Screamin’, Sunwheel, Maliboomer, Mulholland Madness, Orange Stinger, Golden Zephyr, King Triton Carousel, Jumping Jellyfish and there are games on the boardwalk. California Screamin’ is a rollercoaster that goes up to 61 mph. The ride is about 2:35 minutes long and plays music during the whole ride. The highest point is 120 feet and opened on February 8, 2001. You first go down a track and then go on water and it does a count down then you go up a huge hill. The best part of the ride is going through the loop that’s Mickey Mouse’s Ears.

When you go to the main entrance of the Golden State from Sunshine Plaza, you enter Condor Flats. It’s based on the Mojave Desert during the aviation days of the mid 20^th century. Another part of the Golden Sate is Grizzly Peak Recreation Center where you can go on the Grizzly River Run ride. Across from the Grizzly River Run is the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail where you can hike, do activities and a whole bunch of other fun things to do. The Bay Area path is molded after the 20^th century San Francisco, with models of Victorian houses lining the path. The attraction in The Bay Area is Golden Dreams. Also if you go to the Pacific Wharf you can go on the Tortilla Factory and the Bread Bakery tour. The Grizzly River Run is a wet ride that opened on February 8, 2001, is 6 minutes long and can hold 8 people per raft. Golden Dreams is a movie starring Whoopi Goldberg is all about California and how it became California.  

A Bug’s Land is based on the movie A Bug’s Life. It has rides for younger kids and it is like you’re a bug. It has 7 rides: It’s Tough to Be a Bug, Bountiful Valley Farm, Flick’s Flyers, Francis’s Ladybug Boogie, Hemlich’s Chew Chew Train and Princess Dot Puddle Park.  It's Tough to be a Bug movie is based on a bug's perspective of life. Flik's Flyers is a spinner ride that has you seated in Flik's bug-made contraption fashioned from man-made objects. The vehicles appear to have been fashioned from used food containers and have been stitched together by leaves and twigs to become “balloons” that whirl around a pie plate centerpiece. It's A Bug's Land opened on October 7, 2002.

Entertainment

 There are many things watch when you're in California Adventure. There's Disney's Electrical Parade which is shown at night. The floats are: The Blue Fairy, Casey Jr. Circus Engine, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Peter Pan, Snow White and Pete's Dragon. There is also Disney's Block Party Bash. There are people dresses up as Disney characters that sing, dance and do gymnastics. There are 2 show stops; the length is 40 minutes from the entrance to the exit gate.

Downtown Disney

Downtown Disney is an outdoor shopping mall, dining and entertainment area themed like a garden walk. Downtown Disney has an AMC 12 screen theater, with the following restaurants: Catal, Haagen-Dazs, House of Blues, Jamba Juice and Wetzel's Pretzels. There are many retail stores there: Disney Vault 28, Anne Geddes, Basin, Build-A-Bear Workshop, Club Libby Lu, Disney's Pin Traders, Sephora, LEGO and the World of Disney Store.