Which Rides Are Indoors at Disney World?

Not to state the obvious, but sometimes it is way too hot to stand around outside in Florida. Never fear, TouringPlans is here! We’ll get you out of the heat with a list of all the attractions at Disney World that are indoors. Queues too! Secret bonus feature: This list also works for getting out of the weather when it’s cold and you need to warm up. Double secret bonus feature: Indoor attractions are less likely to close when there’s lightning or rain in the area.

Indoor attractions are climate-controlled with both heat and air-conditioning, as are indoor queues. Queues marked as shaded may also have fans and other features to make them cooler. Queues marked as having an overflow area have a large portion of the wait indoors, but often have long lines that extend beyond the indoor queue. Tap the links below to go directly to your park of interest.

Indoor Rides and Shows in the Magic Kingdom
Indoor Rides and Shows at EPCOT
Indoor Rides and Shows at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Indoor Rides and Shows at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

If you’re researching in advance to have a weather plan, you may also like to read:

• Keeping Your Cool at Disney World
• Best Places to Get Warm at Walt Disney World

Magic Kingdom Indoor Attractions

The best air-conditioning bang for your buck in the Magic Kingdom is unquestionably the shows. The shortest is the Country Bear Jamboree at 10 minutes, and in most cases, you’ll see the very next show.

The best rides for beating the heat in the Magic Kingdom are Pirates of the Caribbean and “it’s a small world”. Small world is 14 minutes of air-conditioned boat ride, with waits that rarely exceed 30 minutes. And lines for Pirates can get as long as an hour, but the ride itself is on the longer side at 8 minutes.

On the shorter side are Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan’s Flight, at 3-4 minutes each. But both have interactive queues that kids might find to be an attraction in themselves.

The attractions below are organized by land, to make it easy to find what’s near where you are.

Tomorrowland Indoor Attractions

• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin; (ride) queue also indoors with an outdoor overflow area
• Monster’s Inc. Laugh Floor: (show)  queue also indoors
• Space Mountain; (ride) queue also indoors
• Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress (show)

Fantasyland Indoor Attractions

• Enchanted Tales with Belle; (show) some of the queue is indoors
• it’s a small world; (ride) queue also indoors
• Mickey’s Philharmagic; (show) queue also indoors
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh; (ride) queue is shaded
• Peter Pan’s Flight; (ride) queue also (mostly) indoors
• Under the Sea, Journey of the Little Mermaid; (ride) queue also indoors

You’ll also find these Meet & Greets in Fantasyland:

• Meet Ariel at Her Grotto
• Meet Cinderella & A Visiting Princess at Fairytale Hall; queue also indoors with a partly shaded overflow area
• Meet Daring Disney Pals at Pete’s Silly Sideshow; queue also indoors

Liberty Square Indoor Attractions

• The Hall of Presidents; (show) queue also indoors
• The Haunted Mansion; (ride) has large portions of the queue are shaded

Frontierland, Adventureland, Main Street U.S.A. Indoor Attractions

• Country Bear Jamboree; (show) queue also indoors
• Meet Mickey at Town Square Theater; queue also indoors
• Pirates of the Caribbean; (show) queue also indoors with a shaded overflow area
• Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, (show) queue is shaded

Honorable mention: TRON Lightcycle/Run and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train are both indoor/outdoor coasters. Each is short enough that you’re not going to get any relief from the weather on the ride. But both have a decent length of indoor queue, and you’ll have a chance to enjoy the air-conditioning (or heat) for quite a bit before you get on the ride.

EPCOT Indoor Attractions

EPCOT is a tale of two parks. At the front of the park, Worlds Celebration, Discovery, and Nature have enclosed pavilions that contain multiple activities within. It’s easy to make your way from one climate-controlled oasis to the next. Perhaps the best example is the Land Pavilion. You can spend over an hour waiting and riding Soarin’ and Living With the Land, catch a showing of Awesome Planet, and get a snack or meal before heading back outdoors.

World Showcase, on the other hand, is full of outdoor pavilions with outdoor entertainment and a few indoor rides, shows, and exhibits. (Plus shopping.) The exceptions are the Mexico and American Heritage Pavilions, which are largely indoors. A few quick notes:

• There is so much indoor queue for The Seas with Nemo that my family joke is that when the wait time says 5 minutes, that just means it will take you that long to walk through the empty line to the ride.
• Going in the other direction, the indoor queue for Figment is quite short – maybe 15-20 minutes – but it’s rare for the ride to have a wait that long.
• The queue for Spaceship Earth is almost entirely outdoors, but the ride itself is 16 minutes once you get on.

The attractions in World Showcase are arranged in the order that you’ll arrive at them as you go around from Mexico to Canada.

World Discovery Indoor Attractions

• Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind; (ride) queue also indoors
• Mission Space; (ride) queue also indoors
• Mission Space: Advanced Training Lab; (interactive exhibit)
• Test Track; (ride) queue also indoors

World Celebration Indoor Attractions

• Club Cool; (interactive exhibit and shopping)
• Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival; (show) queue also indoors
• ImageWorks; (interactive exhibit)
• Meet Beloved Disney Pals at Mickey & Friends: (Meet & Greet)
• Journey Into Imagination With Figment; (ride) queue also indoors
• Project Tomorrow; (interactive exhibit)
• Spaceship Earth; (ride)

World Nature Indoor Attractions

• The Land Pavilion
  • Living with the Land; (ride) queue also indoors
  • Awesome Planet; (show) queue also indoors
  • Soarin’ Around the World; (ride) queue also indoors
• The Seas Pavilion
  • The Seas with Nemo & Friends; (ride) queue also indoors
  • The Seas Main Tank & Exhibits: exhibit space
  • Turtle Talk With Crush; (show) queue also indoors

World Showcase Indoor Attractions

In addition to the attractions below, the shopping in most countries is indoors and air-conditioned.

• Mexico
  • Gran Fiesta Tour; (ride) queue also indoors
  • Mexican Folk Art Gallery: (exhibition)
• Norway
  • Frozen Ever After; (ride) queue indoors with an outdoor overflow area
  • Stave Church Gallery: (exhibition)
  • Meet Anna & Elsa at Royal Sommerhus; (Meet & Greet) queue also indoors
• China
  • House of the Whispering Willows Gallery: (exhibition)
  • Reflections of China; (show) queue also indoors
• The American Adventure
  • The American Adventure; (show) queue also indoors
  • American Heritage Gallery: (exhibition)
  • Voices of Liberty; (performance), queue also indoors
• Bijutsu-kan Gallery, Japan: (exhibition)
• Gallery of Arts & History,Morocco: (exhibition)
• France
  • Beauty & the Beast Sing-a-long; (show) queue also indoors
  • Impressions de France; (show), queue also indoors
  • Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure; (show), queue indoors with an outdoor overflow area
• Canada Far & Wide, Canada; (show)

Hollywood Studios Indoor Attractions

At Hollywood Studios, climate control is mostly what you see is what you get. If it looks like it’s in a building, then it has air conditioning and heat. The exception here is Rise of the Resistance, where the show building is well hidden and there’s a goodly length of outdoor queue before it moves indoors. With only one indoor attraction each, Hollywood Boulevard and Toy Story Land have been included in the Animation Courtyard Area in the listings below.

Sunset Boulevard Indoor Attractions

• Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After; (show)
• Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith; (ride) queue is also indoors with a shaded overflow area
• Twilight Zone Tower of Terror; (ride) some of the queue is also indoors with an outdoor overflow area

Animation Courtyard Area Indoor Attractions 

• Star Wars Launch Bay; (exhibit)
• The Little Mermaid: A Musical Adventure: (show)
• Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway; (ride) queue is also indoors with an outdoor overflow area
• Toy Story Mania!; (ride) queue also indoors
• Walt Disney Presents: (exhibit)
• Meet & Greets
  • BB-8 Astromech on Duty; queue is also indoors
  • Meet Sulley at Walt Disney Presents; queue is also indoors
  • Star Wars Launch Bay: Encounter Darth Vader; queue is also indoors
  • Star Wars Launch Bay: Meet Chewbacca; queue is also indoors

Echo Lake Area Indoor Attractions

• For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-a-Long; (show) queue is outdoors but shaded
• Meet Disney Stars at Red Carpet Dreams; (Meet & Greet) queue is also indoors
• Meet Olaf at Celebrity Spotlight; (Meet & Greet) queue is also indoors
• Star Tours: The Adventures Continue; Echo Lake, queue is also indoors

Galaxy’s Edge Indoor Attractions

• Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run; (ride) queue is also indoors
• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance; (ride) queue is indoors with an outdoor overflow area

Animal Kingdom Indoor Attractions

Animal Kingdom is often cited as the hottest park; all the greenery traps the humidity and cuts down on breezes. Still, there’s lots of shade to be found as the park was designed thoughtfully around the climate. Even for outdoor rides, queues are generally shaded. It’s actually pretty amazing that you aren’t much, much hotter as you tour Animal Kingdom, given the relative lack of air-conditioning in this conservation-oriented park. If you’re truly looking for an extended blast of indoor air, head for a show or to Conservation Station. There are a number of indoor exhibits in a single building; we haven’t listed them separately below.

Animal Kingdom Indoor Rides & Shows:

• Avatar: Flight of Passage; (ride) Pandora, queue is indoors with an outdoor overflow area
• Conservation Station; (exhibit) Rafiki’s Planet Watch
• DINOSAUR; (ride) Dinoland U.S.A, queue is indoors with an outdoor overflow area
• Festival of the Lion King; (show) Africa, queue is shaded
• Finding Nemo: The Big Blue … and Beyond; (show) Dinoland U.S.A.
• Meet Favorite Disney Pals at Adventurer’s Outpost; (Meet & Greet) Discovery Island, queue is also indoors
• Na’vi River Journey; (ride) Pandora, queue is shaded

(Originally published May 23, 2023. Last updated/republished June 24, 2025.)