Designed by architect Robert A.M. Stern Architects (who also designed Disney's Newport Bay Club), it is devised to create the illusion that it is a Western town in the archetypal Hollywood style rather than a single hotel complex.

The façades feature the names of such Western institutions as "Saloon", "Jail", "Billy The Kid" or "Annie Oakley".

It shares an area of Disneyland Resort Paris with Disney Hotel Santa Fe, located on either side of a man-made river called the "Rio Grande".

Before the pine trees were planted, Hotel Santa Fé was clearly visible from this area, because they were only separated by the Rio Grande.

On 26 July 2020, Disney rebranded all their onsite hotels by dropping the possessive apostrophe.