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The following is a list of mountain passes and gaps in California.California is geographically diverse with numerous roads and railways traversing within its borders. In the middle of the U.S. state lies the California Central Valley, bounded by the coastal mountain ranges in the west, the Sierra Nevada to the east, the Cascade Range in the north and the Tehachapi Mountains in the south.
Chairlift in August 2003. The ski resort features traditional runs, open bowls, chutes, and tree runs; and claims to be the "largest and steepest resort in Southern California," with 26 runs and four chair lifts spanning 3 mountains featuring a peak elevation of 8,600 ft (2,620 m).
Matterhorn Bobsleds is an attraction that consists of a pair of intertwined steel roller coasters running through a fabricated mountain. It is located at Disneyland in Anaheim, California and is modeled after the Matterhorn, a mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland and Italy.
On March 7, 1981, a private party at Tomorrowland turned into chaos when a fight broke out that ended with Disneyland's first murder. 18-year-old Mel C. Yorba of Riverside was stabbed to death by 28-year-old James O'Driscoll of San Diego shortly after 10:00 p.m. that evening. The knife wound pierced his heart, diaphragm and liver, leaving him ...
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The Disneyland Resort includes three company owned and operated hotels with approximately 2,400 rooms, 180 Disney Vacation Club villas, and 180,000 square feet (17,000 m 2) of conference meeting space. Disneyland Hotel, the resort's original hotel built by Jack Wrather which opened on October 5, 1955, and was purchased by Disney in 1988.
The present-day site of Disney California Adventure was acquired by Walt Disney in the 1950s and functioned as the parking lot of Disneyland for over 40 years. After succeeding with the multi-park business model at Walt Disney World resort in Florida, the Disney company decided to turn Walt Disney's original theme park into a multi-park resort complex as well.
Adventure Thru Inner Space was an attraction in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, presented by Monsanto Company.It was the first attraction to utilize Disney's Omnimover system. [1]