Dezerland Park Orlando

Dezerland Park is what happens when a car collector buys a dead mall. In December 2020, developer Michael Dezer opened his collection and a carnival’s worth of attractions inside the former Artegon Marketplace at the north end of International Drive: 850,000 square feet — billed as Florida’s largest indoor attraction — of auto museum, go-karts, bowling, pinball, trampolines and glow golf under one air-conditioned roof. Entry to the complex is free; everything inside is pay-per-activity. On a rainy Orlando day, this is the biggest umbrella in town.

Where: 5250 International Drive, Orlando, FL 32819 — the north end of the Drive, near the Orlando International Premium Outlets.

Best for: Car people first of all, then rainy days, big groups with divergent interests, and anyone whose party can’t agree on a single attraction.

Tickets: Free admission to the complex and free parking — the model’s whole point. Attractions price separately, typically via ticket or a reloadable play card; the Orlando Auto Museum has its own general admission. No single all-attractions pass was verified at the time of writing, and tenants rotate — check the current line-up on the day.

Hours: Open daily, typically opening late morning (11 a.m. or noon) and closing between 9 and 11 p.m., later on Fridays and Saturdays in current listings. Individual attractions inside keep varying hours.

Getting there: A large free surface lot on site — free entry and free parking were the opening model in 2020 and are still promoted. It’s a short drive or trolley ride from the Universal end of the Drive.

The highlights

• Orlando Auto Museum — The reason for the building: more than 2,000 vehicles from Dezer’s collection across eighteen themed areas — a James Bond collection, the Bat Cave and its Batmobiles, Cars of the Stars (Ecto-1 and the DeLorean Time Machine in current listings), military, microcars, and the World’s Longest Car. Budget an hour; car people will take two.
• Indoor karting — Electric karts on a track billed as Florida’s longest indoors.
• Pinball Palace & Arcade Orlando — A pinball and arcade floor of some two to three hundred machines in current listings — one of the larger pinball rooms in the state.
• Bowling Orlando — Full-size lanes inside the complex, with the birthday-party and group-night trade that keeps them busy.
• The rest of the floor — Bumper cars, glow-in-the-dark mini golf, laser tag, the Jump Start trampoline area and axe throwing among the currently listed activities — a rotating cast, so treat the list as a flavour rather than a promise.

Making a day of it

Dezerland rewards a loose plan and punishes a rigid one: the museum is the anchor (it’s ticketed, it’s the best thing here, and it takes real time), and everything else is à la carte around it — karts for the competitive, pinball for the nostalgic, trampolines for the young. Because entry is free, it’s also the rare Orlando attraction you can scout before spending: walk the floor, price the cards, commit second.

Two cautions from the record: the complex occupies a mall shell, with a mall’s sprawl — wear the walking shoes — and individual tenants genuinely do rotate, so a specific smaller attraction from an older guide may have moved on. The museum and the karting are the constants.

Magazine tips

• The museum is the ticket worth buying. If you pay for one thing here, make it the Auto Museum — nothing else in Florida has this collection under one roof.
• Rainy-day timing is competitive. Every family in Orlando has the same idea at the same thunderclap; arriving before the storm beats arriving during it.
• Free scouting is real. Entry and parking cost nothing — Dezerland is the one place in this guide where “go and look first” is a legitimate strategy.
• Pair it with the outlets. The Premium Outlets are effectively next door; a Dezerland afternoon and an outlet evening is the north Drive’s natural double.

Part of Orlando Citizen’s Orlando Tourism Guide. See also: Andretti Indoor Karting for the Drive’s other indoor speed, and Fun Spot America for the outdoor original. This record’s cover is a magazine illustration; photography for this page is in progress under our image practice.

Photo: For Your Eyes Only Lotus Esprit by zombieite · CC BY · via Flickr via Openverse · AI-enhanced to magazine grade by Orlando Citizen.

Filed under attractions · Indoor · International Drive · Tourism

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