New $71 Disneyland Resident Ticket Deal & Evening Discount Sold Out

Disney is offering a new ticket deal for discount admission to Disneyland and California Adventure for Summer and Halloween 2026! Here are dates & details about the Anaheim resident deal, plus our commentary about crowds, closures, and more.

Guests who purchase this special offer can enjoy the final days of the Disneyland Resort 70th Celebration or step into spirited scenes during Halloween Time at Disneyland (kicking off August 21, 2026) and Plaza de la Familia celebrations. Plus, ride favorite attractions and more.

Anaheim residents can purchase tickets now to take advantage of this special, limited-time offer. After that, make theme park reservations, subject to availability, on the day of your choosing. Then, visit Disneyland or Disney California Adventure with your single-day ticket, valid from July 20 through October 8, 2026!

Anaheim Resident Ticket Prices

Ages 10 and older

1-Day, 1-Park Ticket for $71 Per Day
1-Day Park Hopper Ticket for $104 Per Day

Ages 3 to 9

1-Day, 1-Park Ticket for $50 Per Day
1-Day Park Hopper Ticket for $50 Per Day (Same Price!)

As with other ticket deals, the Park Hopper Ticket upgrade and Lightning Lane Multi Pass can be added for additional fees. With only a single-day ticket, we’d recommend that guests consider adding both. Unless you’re only going to visit Disneyland, in which case you can probably “get away” with not adding LLMP. But if you’re Park Hopping to visit both parks, you really need Lightning Lanes to accomplish the highlights.

Before buying your tickets, be sure reservations are available for the dates you want to visit. Check for available dates on the park reservation calendar. Park reservation availability can change until the park reservation selection is finalized. Here are other important details about the deal:

Offer valid only for Anaheim residents within ZIP codes 92801 through 92809, 92812, 92814 through 92817, 92825, 92850 and 92899; proof of eligible residency, including valid government-issued photo ID, is required for purchase and admission.
Tickets are valid for use beginning July 20, 2026, and expire October 8, 2026.
Eligible individuals residing in Anaheim may purchase up to 8 tickets per day, provided that the payment includes an Anaheim resident zip code.
Tickets are nonrefundable, may not be sold or transferred for commercial use and exclude activities and events that are separately priced.
Offer may not be combined with other ticket discounts or promotions. Subject to restrictions, change or cancellation without notice. Sales may be paused or terminated at any time.

As usual, park reservations for the $71 Anaheim Resident Ticket Offer will pull from a different “bucket” of theme park reservations than regular full-price park tickets. This is exactly how Magic Keys already work, or even regular single-day tickets versus Park Hoppers or multi-day tickets. It’s nothing new. Nevertheless, it’s important to understand that reservation availability could be competitive for certain dates of this deal.

If the new $71 Anaheim Resident or Multi-Day Disneyland 70th Anniversary Ticket Offers aren’t for you for whatever reason, perhaps because you live elsewhere in Orange County or beyond see our 2026 Discount Disneyland Ticket Buying Guide for additional recommendations.

$59 Evening Ticket Sold Out

Along with this, the New 1-Day Discount Disneyland Evening Ticket for $59 that launched less than a week ago is now sold out. Well, technically it’s only “currently unavailable.”

That’s likely a distinction without a difference, as the last time this happened back in April, the ticket deal never returned. If you’re wondering why, below is the reservation availability calendar for the $59 ticket. It’s the same story in August, with no dates available.

In all likelihood, this ticket had extremely limited availability, since the evening hours are also when locals are most likely to visit. This does mean elevated crowds on these evenings versus the baseline if this deal were never offered, but just how bad it’ll be is really anyone’s guess.

Crowds have been low for the last month or so, and there’s no sign of that relenting unless Disneyland finally rips off the band-aid and offers a proper California resident deal. Accordingly, we still expect low to moderate daytime crowds during all of the $59 dates, and even nighttime might not be that bad. It really depends on how many tickets Disneyland actually sold, whether more availability opens up, etc.

Again, the real difference-maker won’t be that evening ticket or even this Anaheim resident deal. It’s a full California resident deal, and although it’s late for that to be released by historical standards, it is still possible. It all depends upon how low crowds are for the next couple of weeks, and whether Disney wants to scramble to release another deal. We shall see.

Beyond lower current crowds, there’s also the reality that Oogie Boogie Bash Halloween Party tickets are selling slower than ever before. Part of this is staleness with the event, another part is more dates than ever (meaning higher supply/capacity), and a final part is the lack of a proper parade. But there is at least some small part that’s attributable to slowing demand.

I don’t want to get carried away here, looking at the last couple of months and trying to over-extrapolate about crowds going forward. We’ve been hoping for a bit of a normalization in crowds at Disneyland for what feels like 3-4 years at this point. And even when there have been glimmers of that happening, the tides quickly turn and the parks feel packed again.

It seems like ‘perpetually crowded’ is the new normal for Disneyland. That there are only brief reprieves from the higher crowds, and then Disney finds the right mix of seasonal events, ticket deals, or resumption of Magic Key sales. This isn’t like Walt Disney World at all, which has seen several sustained slower periods.

Disneyland being adept and aggressive at pulling the right levers to incentivize demand and maintain crowds is what makes the lack of a summer and early fall multi-day ticket deal for California residents so perplexing. That type of discount has been offered annually for each of the last several years precisely because baseline demand for summer is lower than it once was.

Note that this slowdown applies specifically to summer. Let’s check back in October–the most expensive month of the year on average–and see what attendance looks like. Or November and December, for that matter.

Then there’s also winter, which has been much busier than normal the last couple of years, boosted by a combo of discounts. My guess is that there won’t be any issues whatsoever once late September rolls around. It’s safe to say this isn’t pent-up demand anymore; it’s the new normal for attendance dynamics.

Offering an even better deal specifically for Anaheim residents probably isn’t in celebration of Disneyland’s 71st Anniversary or a “thank you” to the community. It might be a little bit of the latter in the sense that Disney wants to maintain favorability among residents for the next time they need something approved by the Anaheim City Council. That’s savvy, especially with the revival of the Eastern Gateway project, which will likely entail disruptions for local commercial residents during construction for the next few years.

More likely, it’s that Disney has data that fewer Anaheim residents are visiting the parks relative to the past and/or surrounding communities. Historically, Anaheim has had the lowest household income of any city in Orange County. There’s no reason to believe that’s changed, especially with the city so dependent upon hospitality industries.

If I had to guess, Disneyland’s demographics have shifted and the parks are seeing more visitors from affluent communities in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, and fewer from Anaheim. The reasons for that should be fairly self-evident, as should why this might be concerning for the company. Hence this ticket deal. This isn’t revolutionary insight–we mentioned the same last year when the similar 70th deal was released.

Ultimately, it’ll be interesting to see how popular this $71 Anaheim ticket deal ends up being or Disney’s underlying motivations for the special offer. It’ll also be fascinating to see how crowds continue to play out at Disneyland during the home stretch of the Summer 2026 season.

Our expectation is that the parks will see a measurable spike in crowds starting in October 2026. What happens between now and then is really contingent upon whether Disney pulls another lever and releases a belated multi-day ticket deal that covers California residents beyond those who reside in Anaheim. If not, we’re in for a slow 3-month stretch by Disneyland standards.

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Your Thoughts

Will you be taking advantage of the new $71 Anaheim Resident Ticket Deal or the $59 Evening Discount? Holding out for a better multi-day discount? Do you agree or disagree with our assessment? Any questions? Hearing your feedback–even when you disagree with us–is both interesting to us and helpful to other readers, so please share your thoughts below in the comments!