Disneyland Resort has been accused of misinforming guests on the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail at Disney California Adventure Park. The family-friendly attraction features multiple interactive experiences and signage about native California wildlife.
Located in Grizzly Peak, the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail is a walkthrough attraction that includes the Cliff Hanger Traverse Rock Climb, Hoot n’ Holler Log Slides, and Sequoia Smokejumpers Training Tower. Guests can also visit the Spirit Cave, where brave wilderness explorers can discover which animal they most identify with.
Redditor u/Mattyj925 recently visited the Disney California Adventure Park attraction and found the educational portions lacking. They shared three photos of signs that featured typos and incorrect scientific names of birds:
Redwood Creek – Weird Signs?
“The first pic lists the scientific name for the Great Horned Owl as ‘Bubo Virginanus,’” the Disney Park guest wrote. “That is not correct, off by one very unfortunate letter…”
The scientific name for the Great Horned Owl is “Bubo Virginianus.”
The second image showed a sign about the Cave Myotis Bat, which listed its scientific name as “Falco Peregrinus.” That’s the scientific name for the Peregrine Falcon–”Myotis Velifer” is the scientific name for the Cave Myotis Bat.
The third picture showed a sign about the Osprey containing multiple errors, including a missing word and incorrect spelling. “[It] claims that the amazing Osprey ‘will anywhere from 30 to 100 feet’, plus an extra typo for the word ‘oily’ in the first section,” the guest explained.
Unfortunately, the Great Horned Owl, Osprey, and Cave Myotis Bat signs weren’t the only ones with significant errors.
“They’re all written extremely poorly, and littered with typos (some very questionable),” the Disney Park guest concluded. “…It was fun to walk from sign to sign seeing what would be wrong with the next one, but it felt bizarre to see these in a Disney park.”
Other Disney Parks fans were puzzled by the massive oversight.
“These are so strange!” u/felifae commented. “I feel like Disney wouldn’t haphazardly put up signs with errors like this. Plus the design and art isn’t that appealing either. I’m stumped as of how this could happen…a designer with a short deadline???”
“Disney trying to get a tax exclusion by labeling their parks as ‘educational,’” u/DarthFett75 joked.
Some didn’t believe Disneyland Resort would install inaccurate signs, instead blaming a rogue theme park guest.
“100% not something Disney would just put up,” u/GiantPretzel54 argued. “Especially not with visible nails, such obvious mistakes, or amateurish graphic design like that. The font and typeset alone is a giveaway. Hopefully whoever put it up didn’t do any damage to the poles.”
Still, most Disney Parks fans blamed the Mouse.
“If Disney still held a gold standard, an error like that would not have existed,” u/psychotic_parakeet wrote.
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