of the year. The busiest ~ime of all is Christmas Day through New<br >Year s Day. Thanksgiving~(eekend， the week of Washington s Birth-<br >day， spring break for colleges， and the two weeks around Easter are<br >also extremely busy. To give you some idea of what busy means at<br >Disneyland， more than 77，000 people have toured the park on a single<br >day! While this level of attendance is far from typical， the possibility<br >of its occurrence should prevent all but the ignorant and the foolish<br >from challenging this mega-attraction at its busiest periods.<br > The least busy time of all is from after the Thanksgiving Weekend<br >until the week before Christmas. The next slowest times are September<br >through the weekend preceding Thanksgiving， January 4th through the<br >first half of March， and the week following Easter to Memorial Day.<br >At the risk of being blasphemous， our research team was so impressed<br >with the relative ease of touring in we would rather take our children<br >do battle with the summer crowds the fall and other "off" periods that<br >out of school for a few days than to-- Selecting the Day of the Week for Your Visit<br > The crowds at Walt Disney World in Florida are comprised of<br >mostly out-of-state visitors. Not necessarily so at Disneyland， which，<br >along with Knott s Berry Farm， serves as an often-frequented recre-<br >ational resource to the greater Los Angeles and San Diego commu-<br >nities. To many Southern Californians， Disneyland is less of a tourist<br >attraction than it is their private theme park. Yearly passes are available<br >at less cost than a year s membership to the YMCA， and the Disney<br >management has intensified its efforts to appeal to the local market.<br > What all this means is that weekends are usually packed. <br >