Matterhorn Bobsleds is closing for refurbishment this summer at Disneyland, but we now have a reopening date. The attraction takes guests through a snow-capped mountain on a speeding alpine sled while avoiding the clutches of the Abominable Snowman.
Matterhorn Bobsleds Reopening Date
According to the Disneyland calendar, the ride will close on July 20. The last day to ride before its closure is July 19. Guests will only have to do without for a couple days, however. The Matterhorn Bobsleds is scheduled to reopen on July 24, just four days later.
Matterhorn Bobsleds is one of the few Disneyland rides that has not been recreated at any other Disney park. There are two bobsled tracks: one on the Fantasyland side of the mountain and the other on the Tomorrowland side.
Walt Disney fell in love with the real Matterhorn while filming the 1959 live-action film Third Man on the Mountain. Back at Disneyland Park, he decided to cover a forested 20-foot-high mound named Holiday Hill with artificial snow, add a toboggan run and rename it Snow Hill. However, Walt always dreamed big, and the “hill” soon grew into a 147-foot-tall mountain. The attraction opened on June 14, 1959.
Matterhorn Bobsleds was the first roller-coaster-style attraction at Disneyland Park—and the very first tubular steel coaster in the world.
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