California Adventure is a harder park to plan than Disneyland. Fewer rides, more spread out, and the two rides everyone wants are on opposite ends of the park. Here's how to handle it.

Two rope drop options — Space Mountain or Rise of the Resistance — plus three morning strategies to ride every major attraction in one day.

A step-by-step Disneyland day plan starting in Fantasyland at rope drop. This is how I do it every time — and how I walk friends through it by text while they're in the park.