The Frontierland Shootin’ Exposition is open again at Disneyland after a refurbishment that kept it behind construction walls for most of the summer. We were there on Friday as guests stepped back up to the counter, and the building has come out of it looking sharp.
The Shooting Exposition has reopened at Disneyland!
— Matthew (@DisneyScoopGuy) September 11, 2026
The exterior is freshly painted, with the red plank facade and the Shooting Exposition sign in crisp blue, cream and gold. The patriotic bunting is back across the roofline, along with the star rosettes and red, white and blue streamers hanging from each of the log posts. The shooting counter runs the length of the porch under the overhang, and on Friday afternoon there were guests at it and others waiting on the bench alongside.
Closed Since Early July
Disney’s park calendar had the attraction closing on July 6 for a brief refurbishment with no end date attached. It ran a little over two months. Through the summer the building sat behind fence-style construction walls with scaffolding and scrim behind them, and at one point the plain scrim was swapped for a printed version that reproduced the facade underneath it, bunting and sign included.
No reopening date was ever announced. The walls were simply gone on Friday morning.
What Is Inside
The attraction puts guests behind a replica .54-caliber Hawkins buffalo rifle aimed into a scene of Boot Hill in Tombstone, Arizona. There are nearly 100 interactive targets, moving and stationary, each rigged to answer a hit with lights, sounds and an animation. Some of those animations carry a supernatural twist, which is what keeps people feeding it credits hunting for the ones they have not seen.
It is not included with admission. Guests buy credits, and one credit runs to roughly 25 shots. There is no height requirement, and it is one of the few stops in the park a mixed-age group can do together in five minutes without a queue or a ride vehicle.
The Last One Of Its Kind In The United States
Magic Kingdom’s equivalent, the Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade, closed permanently in the summer of 2024. The space became McKim’s Mile House, a Disney Vacation Club member lounge that opened on March 18, 2025. Disneyland now has the only operating shooting gallery at a Disney park in the United States.
It comes back as Halloween Time crowds build through Frontierland, where Rancho del Zocalo has just added nachos, a shrimp cocktail and horchata slushies a short walk from the shooting gallery’s porch.
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