A whole day of rides.
There are 13 amusement parks in and around Orange County. Each card below shows what it costs, when it opens and which ages it suits.
13 amusement parks in the Orange County area13 amusement parks in the Orange County area.
Sorted by distance from Santa Ana, nearest first. Straight-line miles, so every drive is longer.
13 places
5 of 13 amusement parks
Where a card says no price or no hours listed, the venue does not publish it. We would rather leave the gap than fill it with a guess. Prices come from each venue's own website, and we publish one only when the figure appears on the page we took it from. Tell us if we are missing one you know.
We list 13 amusement parks within 24 miles of Orange County, CA. Every one is a published listing with an address we checked.
1 of the 13 here do, and each price was checked word for word against the venue's own page before we published it. The rest do not publish one, so their card says no price listed rather than carrying a guess.
We list every one we have within 24 miles of the center of Orange County. Each is a published place with an address we geocoded and checked, and the business can claim its listing to keep the hours and prices current.
It varies more than you would expect, from free to full price, and it changes the cost of a visit by a lot when there are two of you. The price on each card is what it costs to get a child in. 1 of the 13 on this page publishes a price at all, so call ahead about the adult rate before you rely on it.
Buy tickets online. It is usually cheaper than the gate, and some parks cap entry on busy days. Where a venue publishes a booking page, the listing links straight to it.
Sun cream, water, a change of clothes for the water rides and far more snacks than you think. Whatever else you need is in the notes beside the listings above.
Orange County has 9 categories of kid-friendly places on Mini Navigators, from playgrounds and museums to splash pads and zoos. The Orange County hub lists all of them.
Listings last checked 10/14/2026.