# What is the best Disneyland ride?

> Opening-day dark rides share the park with thrill coasters and a couple of gentle classics nobody admits to loving.

*By YPB Team · Published October 25, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-disneyland-ride*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Pirates of the Caribbean** — score 1000/1000
   1967 boat ride through pirate battles and the Blue Bayou, the last attraction Walt Disney oversaw.
2. **Peter Pan's Flight** — score 741/1000
   Opening-day dark ride flying over London in pirate galleons.
3. **Haunted Mansion** — score 680/1000
   Doom Buggy tour of a New Orleans Square mansion home to 999 happy haunts.
4. **Matterhorn Bobsleds** — score 600/1000
   1959 steel coaster inside a scale model of the Swiss peak, the first of its kind.
5. **Space Mountain** — score 448/1000
   Indoor roller coaster that races through darkness and stars in Tomorrowland.
6. **Autopia** — score 353/1000
   Opening-day ride where kids drive gas-powered cars along a freeway.
7. **Mad Tea Party** — score 353/1000
   Spinning teacups from Alice in Wonderland in Fantasyland.
8. **Jungle Cruise** — score 241/1000
   Opening-day boat tour famous for its skippers' pun-heavy narration.
9. **Big Thunder Mountain Railroad** — score 241/1000
   Runaway mine-train coaster through Frontierland's red rock buttes.
10. **Mr. Toad's Wild Ride** — score 241/1000
   Opening-day dark ride that ends, famously, in hell.

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