Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground is a themed camping resort located in the

Magic Kingdom Resort Area The Walt Disney World Resort is an destination resort, entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney Experiences, a division of the Wa ...

at the

Walt Disney World Resort The Walt Disney World Resort is an entertainment resort complex located about southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney Experiences, a division of the Walt Disney Company. ...

, adjacent to Bay Lake, near Disney's Wilderness Lodge. It opened in November 1971. It also formerly contained

Disney's River Country Disney's River Country was the first water park at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida. River Country, located along the shores of Bay Lake and near Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, was themed as a rustic, old-fashioned swimming hole ...

, a water park which closed on November 2, 2001. From late 1973. to early 1980, the Fort Wilderness Railroad, a ,

narrow-gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curv ...

heritage railroad A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) ...

, provided transportation to the resort's various campsites, as well as to the nearby River Country water park. A new

Disney Vacation Club The Disney Vacation Club (DVC) is a vacation timeshare program owned and operated by Disney Vacation Development, Inc., a subsidiary of Disney Signature Experiences, a division of Disney Experiences, a segment of The Walt Disney Company. It allow ...

tower,

Disney Lakeshore Lodge Disney's Lakeshore Lodge (formerly Reflections – A Disney Lakeside Lodge) is a planned Disney Vacation Club resort at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. It is to be built between Disney's Wilderness Lodge and Disney's Fort Wil ...

, is set to open along the shores of Bay Lake at Fort Wilderness in 2027.

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Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground
official site (Cabins)
Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground
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