Disneyland Haunted Mansion Closure 2024 – Dates, Why It’s Closed, What’s Coming

The Disneyland Haunted Mansion now has now been closed since early 2024. Typically the Disneyland Haunted Mansion closes at for a short amount of time to remove the Nightmare Before Christmas-themed Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay from the attraction but this year the closure is related to bigger construction project to reshape the areas around the mansion.

Late last year, Disney revealed new details about a big expansion of the Disneyland Haunted Mansion area to redevelop the area around the Haunted Mansion attraction to improve guest flow, add in an elevator for wheelchair users to exit the attraction, and to add in a new store. You can read more about this Haunted Mansion construction below.

Work is ongoing during the Haunted Mansion closure. We have a look at the Haunted Mansion construction and a new opening date for the attraction from Disney!

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Closure

UPDATE! Disneyland has announced the Haunted Mansion's reopening and the end of the virtual queue for the attraction. You can read about the new standby queue revealed here as well as new details and an opening period revealed for the new Haunted Mansion shop. 

Disneyland closed the Haunted Mansion on January 22, 2024. Disney has now made a big announcement that guarantees that the Haunted Mansion will not be closed for too much longer. See details in the next section.

With the closure of the Haunted Mansion, two of the major attractions in this corner of the park will be closed. There is still no Splash Mountain reopening date set for when the ride will become Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Disney just confirmed that the Tiana's Bayou Adventure attraction will not open until “later in 2024” at Disneyland so we can expect to see this area with the two attractions closed for at least a little while.

That leads us to wonder…

When Will Disneyland Haunted Mansion Reopen?

Haunted Mansion UPDATE! Disneyland just shared that the Haunted Mansion will be opening sooner than expected before the start of the Halloween season.

Disney had previously confirmed that the Disneyland Haunted Mansion would reopen by the first day of the Halloween at Disneyland season on August 23, 2024. When I asked for confirmation that this would be the official reopening date for the Haunted Mansion, a Disneyland spokesperson stated that this was not the official reopening announcement but that it would be ready for Halloween at the parks. We expected that it could be earlier than that as Disney had not explicitly stated that was the exact date that the mansion would reopen. 

We previously mused that Disneyland could reopen the attraction a few days or weeks earlier than the official start of the Halloween season in order to get additional capacity back online. We had said that we would not be surprised if they soft launched the attraction by early August. Many of Disney's biggest fans in the world will be in attendance at the D23 Expo this year, so it wasn't going to be surprising to us if they were trying to have it open by that weekend.

Disney also shared that the Haunted Mansion Holiday attraction will be available with a virtual queue only when it first returns. This is because, unfortunately, the full queue work will not be complete when the attraction is initially reopened. Even though the attraction will be reopening, construction will still be ongoing as the additions to the outdoor queue take shape. 

From the visible progress that we can see at the mansion the exterior work on the attraction has not really gotten underway and the new store coming to the attraction – details below – has not even begun to take shape.

This news basically confirms that the normal Haunted Mansion will not return until January 2025 when the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay comes down from the attraction. It also confirms our hunch that the holiday decorations have remained up in the mansion throughout this construction period.

Now, here's a little more on the background that we already had around the Haunted Mansion closure.

Typically the Haunted Mansion Holiday attraction closes every year in early January around the last day of the holiday season as we detail in our Disneyland refurbishments and closures article. Some of the changes, which we'll share a little more on below won't be quick and will be structural changes made to the attraction building.

As of May 2024 we have not seen progress on the exterior queue area of the mansion and it is very much still a dirt construction site. There is likely lots of activity in the areas of the mansion that we cannot see including the exit accessibility work that they are doing.

What is the Haunted Mansion Construction Coming to Disneyland?

Disney previously announced that Haunted Mansion will be getting some new additions that will “build on the story and lore” of the beloved attraction. The construction during the Haunted Mansion closure will add an expanded outdoor queue and a new retail shop adjacent to the attraction's exit. Construction will also introduce new additions to improve the accessibility of these areas, including an elevator exit from the attraction for guests with disabilities.

The expansion will connect to the local legend of the Haunted Mansion being first built by a prosperous sea captain and new gardens inspired by Master Gracey, Madame Leota, and the one-eyed cat. The gardens will feature unique elements like a water fountain, gazebo, themed statuary and landscaping, and more. The pet cemetery and horse-drawn funeral hearse will still be featured. You can see the concept art for this outdoor queue area above!

In addition to the queue expansion during the Haunted Mansion closure, a new retail shop inspired by Madame Leota will be added. The shop will be the “carriage house of the mansion” belonging to Leota, with more details to come in the future. You can see the concept art for the shop below:

There will also be enhancements made to the plaza adjacent to Tiana's Palace to create a “new, elegant park-like setting” that will be a place to rest and enjoy live entertainment. You can see the concept art for this area below:

Importantly for the construction closure timeline for Haunted Mansion, they will also be adding an elevator to the exit of the attraction. This could cause the longest part of the closure as it is structural and work could end up block the attraction from running.

We are looking forward to seeing these new additions added to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland!

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