Haunted Mansion Expanded Queue & Grounds Now Open

Welcome, foolish mortals. Earlier this year, the Haunted Mansion and Magnolia Park at Disneyland Park closed for a very long refurbishment and expansion of the Haunted Mansion queue and grounds. While the Haunted Mansion attraction reopened a few months ago with its Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay, the grounds and queue line have still been closed for continued construction. But today, the beautifully expanded grounds and queue area officially opens to guests.

Starting today, the attraction is once again utilizing a stand-by queue line and the virtual queue will no longer be used. Also, guests purchasing Lightning Lane Multi Pass and Lightning Lane Premier Pass now have access to the attraction.

Guests using a mobility device are now able to use the main queue and entrance to the Haunted Mansion. After riding the attraction, guests using a mobility device will leave the attraction using a new, accessible elevator exit that extends the story of the attraction with a gallery of original Imagineering artwork and more.

Haunted Mansion Expanded Grounds

Just beyond the gates to the Haunted Mansion attraction are the new, cultivated grounds. This expanded area has an enchanting aura that calls you to explore further!

When entering this new part of the stand-by queue, before discovering the expanded grounds, you may notice a familiar Spanish fountain that once sat in the middle of Magnolia Park.

You’ll find that the new gardens are being closely guarded by a pair of stately ravens. Ravens often represent a connection between the world of the living and the spirit world.

You will also encounter the crouching figure of a cat. The statue sits tucked away among the wispy grasses, as he appears ready to pounce.

Haunted Mansion Expanded Queue at Disneyland

Around the bend, you’ll discover a personal garden retreat designed by one of the mansion’s inhabitants, Master Gracey. A fountain against the garden’s wall features the face of a sea maiden with unruly hair and startled eyes, as if she’s caught in a storm. Inside an old, wrought iron gazebo sits a bench, a well-read book, and astrological armillary sphere and a smoking pipe that has been left behind. It’s the perfect place for Gracey to rest and ponder his past.

Further along the path, you’ll find the eccentric garden of Madame Leota, the resident Seer. It seems as if the entire garden is dipped in a mystical energy; as if every plant, statue, and trinket is under Leota’s spell. There is a small statuary of oddities – frogs, lizards, rats and a cymbal-playing monkey – all frozen in time like they are under an incantation. The garden has a repeating motif of fortune-telling orbs. The large oak tree that graces the center of the courtyard has been decorated by Leota with colorful ornaments, chimes and bells that ring out in the breeze.

And in the rear of the garden, you’ll find the Mansion Greenhouse, belonging to all the mansion’s ghosts. An ornate structure of iron and glass, it gives residents with a “green thumb” a chance to cultivate the most unusual of plant species.

Magnolia Park

Magnolia Park is situated in front of the New Orleans Square train station between Tiana’s Palace restaurant and the Haunted Mansion. This beautiful, elegant park-like setting is shaded with some oak and Ficus trees and is a great spot to take a break. The park is now open and ready for guests to enjoy. On your next visit to Disneyland Park, make sure you stop by Magnolia Park and the Haunted Mansion to check out the beautiful new queue and grounds.

New Disneyland Haunted Mansion Carriage House Retail Shop

New Haunted Mansion Merchandise Shop

An all-new merchandise shop located adjacent to the Haunted Mansion exit is still under construction but is expected to open this winter. Madame Leota’s Somewhere Beyond is a carriage house that used to store the same ornate carriage that now remains on the mansion’s front yard. It also contains a boudoir on the mezzanine level. At one point, it was home to the mansion’s head caretaker, but later Madame Leota took up residence. It is filled with her eclectic furniture including a crystal ball, feinting couch and the original parlor chandelier that Leota used in séances at the mansion.

When the first floor of the carriage house became a shop, Madame Leota kindly lent her desks, cabinets and chests as antique artifacts to be showcased along with the merchandise. As a powerful medium moving between worlds, Madame Leota comes and goes a lot and is excited to welcome guests to her home, soon.

Once the new merchandise shop opens, guests will be able to find gifts themed to the Haunted Mansion and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. The shop will include apparel, accessories, collectibles, home decor and more. Until then, guests can pick up Haunted Mansion and The Nightmare Before Christmas themed merchandise at Port Royal Curios and Curiosities in New Orleans Square located near the exit of Pirates of the Caribbean and across from Cafe Orleans.