You will almost certainly ride the Monorail if you visit Walt Disney World. The Walt Disney World Monorail operates over a span of 14.7 miles, with around 50 million Disney guests traveling on the monorail each year.

The three routes on the Walt Disney World Monorail are:

Express: Express service between the Magic Kingdom and the Transportation and Ticket Center (TTC).

    Resort: Round-trip local service making stops at the Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Contemporary Resort, the Transportation and Ticket Center, Disney’s Polynesian Resort, and Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa, in that order.

      Epcot: Service between the Transportation and Ticket Center and Epcot.

      A spur track connects the Express and Resort lines to the maintenance shop. Another spur connects the Epcot and Express lines and is located northeast of the Transportation and Ticket Center.

      Fun Facts about the Walt Disney World Monorail

      Backstage at the MK (on the far northeast side of the park), there is a monorail barn. Ten of the twelve monorails spend the night in there. Why only ten? Because when the barn was built, WDW was only supposed to have a total of ten monorail trains, but two more were added out of necessity for more guest capacity. Each night, two monorail trains have a sleepover in one of the other stations, and if the temps get below freezing, they go deluxe and stay in the Contemporary’s station. Because of regularly scheduled maintenance, no two trains ever spend more than one night in a schedule rotation outside of the barn. Someday, when you’re at the MK and you have a few spare minutes, go outside the gates and turn left. Walk down the pathway under the beams toward the Contemporary, and just before you come to the intersection where North World Drive goes backstage, stop and look up. Above your head is a switch beam, which can move a train between the outer (Express or Exterior line) and inner (Resort or Lagoon line) beams. If you’re really lucky, you might witness an actual switch. While looking up, you’ll also note a spur track that goes north into the backstage area, which then continues into the barn. If you happen to have a recent property map, the Magic Kingdom area spur track and the barn are actually shown on the map, although neither is identified as such. On the Epcot line, there is another spur track to the northeast of the Ticket and Transportation Center (TTC), which connects it to the Express beam. What happens in the event that one monorail breaks down along the beam and can’t get back to barn under its own power? There are three diesel powered tractors that can pull a fully-loaded monorail into the nearest station. The passengers are dropped off there, and the tractor then moves the empty train backstage to the barn for maintenance. By the way, the monorail trains also share the barn with the WDW Railroad steam trains. The monorails occupy the upper area of the building and the steam trains have the lower area. TRIVIA: The two “extra” trains added to the fleet are Monorail Lime and Monorail Coral. The way to tell the difference between Monorails Green and Lime and Monorails Pink and Coral is by the white delta shape painted on Lime and Coral’s color identifier stripe on the side of the train.

      Since 1971, total miles logged by WDW monorail trains would be equal to more than 30 round trips to the moon. One dozen new cars were put into service along the 14-mile beamway in 1990 as the original fleet received a well-deserved retirement.

      Disney World Monorail Map