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| name = Redwood Creek Challenge Trail<br />
| park = [[Disney California Adventure]]<br />
| land = [[Grizzly Peak]]<br />
| type = Walk-through play area<br />
| opened = February 8, 2001<br />
| status = Operating<br />
| theme = Northern California redwood forest<br />
| designer = Walt Disney Imagineering<br />
}}<br />
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'''Redwood Creek Challenge Trail''' is a forest-themed walk-through play area in the [[Grizzly Peak]] area of [[Disney California Adventure]] in Anaheim, California. Set among artificial redwoods beside the [[Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa]], it is a self-guided trail of rope bridges, climbing nets, a traverse rock wall, slides, lookout towers and hollow logs spread over roughly two acres. It opened with the park on February 8, 2001, and is one of the few opening-day attractions at Disney California Adventure to have operated continuously since.<ref name="wikipedia">{{cite web |title=Redwood Creek Challenge Trail |website=Wikipedia |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Creek_Challenge_Trail |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><ref name="allears">{{cite web |title=Redwood Creek Challenge Trail - Disney California Adventure |website=AllEars.Net |url=https://allears.net/disneyland/dlr-planning/redwood-creek-challenge-trail-grizzly-peak-recreation-area-disney-california-adventure/ |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
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Redwood Creek opened as part of the Golden State district, the original land that celebrated California's landscapes and industries; the area around it was later reworked and renamed Grizzly Peak. The trail was designed as the park's active-play counterweight to its rides: a place where children could climb, cross rope bridges and slide while adults followed the shaded paths below.<ref name="allears" /><br />
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In October 2003 the trail was rethemed around Disney's animated film ''Brother Bear'', adding character meetings with Kenai and Koda and an amphitheatre show, ''The Magic of Brother Bear''.<ref name="wikipedia" /><ref name="allears" /> The overlay lasted until 2011, when the area was reworked again as a Wilderness Explorers camp themed to Pixar's ''Up'', with guests able to follow Russell's example by earning Wilderness Explorer badges at activity stations around the trail.<ref name="allears" /><br />
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The trail has since taken on seasonal roles in the park's calendar. During [[Oogie Boogie Bash]] season it is transformed into Villains Grove, a walk-through of themed lighting and sound scenes for the Halloween party, and in the holiday season it hosts Santa Claus at the Ahwahnee Camp Circle near its entrance. In March 2026 it received theming from Pixar's film ''Hoppers'' as a promotional tie-in for that film's release.<ref name="wikipedia" /><br />
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For the 2026 holiday season the trail closed on November 1 to be prepared for Santa's arrival — its entrance signed, in keeping with the area's fiction, as unavailable "due to bear activity" — and reopened on November 13, 2026, the first day of the Disneyland Resort's holiday season, with Santa meeting guests at Ahwahnee Camp Circle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Disneyland Refurbishments & Closures (Nov 2026 Schedule) |website=Enchanted Insider |url=https://www.enchantedinsider.com/disneyland-refurbishment-schedule-2026-every-ride-closure-reopening-date/ |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Redwood Creek Challenge Trail Closes for Holiday Transformation |website=The Disney Blog |url=https://www.disneyblog.com/news/redwood-creek-challenge-trail-closes-for-holiday-transformation/ |access-date=2026-11-14}}</ref><br />
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== Experience ==<br />
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Guests explore at their own pace. The trail network climbs through the artificial redwood canopy on stairs and rope bridges, with a rock-climbing traverse wall, a zip-line-style cable glide for smaller guests, side-by-side slides and lookout towers, including a ranger station with views across Grizzly Peak.<ref name="wikipedia" /><ref name="allears" /> At ground level, paths wind past sculpted boulder bears, a spirit cave and the amphitheatre at the camp circle.<br />
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Some elements carry height or age limits, and parts of the trail close in wet weather, but there is no queue and no set route: the attraction is built for the kind of unstructured climbing and exploration that the rest of the park's ride line-up does not offer, which has kept it a fixture for families with young children for twenty-five years.<ref name="allears" /><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Disney California Adventure]]<br />
* [[Grizzly Peak]]<br />
* [[Grizzly River Run]]<br />
* [[Oogie Boogie Bash]]<br />
* [[List of Disney California Adventure attractions]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Attractions]]<br />
[[Category:Disney California Adventure]]<br />
[[Category:Walk-through attractions]]<br />
[[Category:2001 establishments in California]]</div>Admin