Changes are coming or already in place across the 700 acres of Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground in Florida.
To address the needs of today’s larger RVs, an intensive effort will widen and lengthen the concrete parking pads while maintaining privacy and tranquility provided by natural vegetation. A new “Premium” campsite will be available that features extra large concrete pads for larger vehicles — also upgrades to existing amenities such as picnic tables and grills.
The main pool at the Florida park will be enhanced with a themed water slide, hot tub and children’s wet play area. The pool’s deep end has been made shallower. The resort’s 409 Wilderness Cabins feature brand-new furniture, carpeting, fixtures and linens — plus a fresh coat of paint.
Dogs are getting a playground of their own at the newly opened Waggin’ Trails Dog Park, an off-leash play area.
There is plenty of recreation for humans, too, including horseback riding, fishing excursions, nature trail exploration, boat rentals, volleyball, tennis, bike rentals and the new Wilderness Back Trail Adventure, where guests can experience, first-hand, a Segway X2 Personal Transporter. Guests can unwind on a white sand beach, play a leisurely game of shuffleboard, take the little ones on a pony ride or enjoy an evening horse-drawn wagon ride around the resort.
Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground is located in the Magic Kingdom resort area on the banks of Bay Lake. Convenient boat transportation to Magic Kingdom and motorcoach transportation to all Walt Disney World destinations, including Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom, is provided.
For more information, or to make reservations at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground call 407/WDW-CAMP.
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Regarding Disney’s improved campground. Did they also tell you how much the cost of staying in Ft. Wilderness has increased considerably and not counting the 12.5% FL tax that is applicable? And did they tell you how much extra it costs if you have a pet? Or perhaps the fact that wireless or high speed interenet will cost you almost $10.00 per day.
Believe me, the campground is not worth the cost!
Janet,
There are a WHOLE BUNCH of folks who will disagree with your assessment. You can find us on http://www.disboards.com - come on over to the “Camping At Disney World” board.
READ THR FINEPRINT FOLKS!!!!! Once you do, you will bypass this destination.
And besides that, Janet, it takes quite a while to get to the main park from there.
Also, we found it to be rather noisy; and despite the vegetation between the sites, it still seemed crowded. There were a lot of people there who looked like they normally wouldn’t be camping.
After staying there a few nights, we went to a regular RV park to the south towards Kissimee and had a more enjoyable and peaceful experience, for a third the price. It only took us a few minutes longer to get to the front gate.
Chris, I’m not sure what you really are referring to when you talk about it taking quite a while to get to the main park. Fort Wilderness has boats that will transport you to the Magic Kingdon, granted they also pick up at the Wilderness Lodge on the way, there is also a bus system that will take you to any of the parks as well as Downtown Disney. Do you have to wait for the bus or boat from time to time? Sure you do, but it sure beats getting in you car and driving to the park and having to hike the parking lot. I am sorry it seemed crowded to you, but guess what. it was crowded. Ft. Wilderness has been recognized many times as one of the top campgrounds in the US and is such it runs at full capacity. You also found it noisy, sorry about that too, but since Walt Disney World is the number one family destination in the country it does tend to get noisy.
Janet, sorry you were surprised at the price, but what did you expect? Disney is not an enexpensive place to visit but for whatever the reason people (myself included) keep coming back for more.
If any one is looking for an enexpensive, quiet, uncrowded camping vacation, then Ft Wilderness is probably not what you are looking for.
My husband and two girls and I enjoyed our 3 week stay at Ft. Wilderness in March and April of 2008. I’m delighted to hear of the changes being made–especially to the pool area, which has been too long in coming. However, some changes are not positive.
We were dismayed to see that the natural vegetation between sites was being systematically eliminated. As a result, the campground has lost much of its rustic feel–and is not as welcoming to the wildlife that used to delight us so; take, for instance the endangered gopher tortoise whose abandoned hole languishes in the middle of a half-burnt out, ripped out clump of saw palmettos behind site # 710.
Another new problem is “Mickey’s Backyard Barbecue,” which features music so loud that the “thump-thump-thump” of the baseline can be heard a half-mile away inside people’s RV’s.
Years ago, when I was a cast member, a common disparagement amongst the cast and crew was “Bad show.” Bad show was trash on the ground, a frowning ride operator, a wilted flowerbed. Bad show was any cast member who didn’t care about the guests’ experience, any cast member who weakened the experience for all of us. Back then, almost everyone took pride and ownership in producing a good show.
I hope that those in charge of making today’s changes to Ft. Wilderness consider “the show” and that they ultimately keep the wilderness in Ft. Wilderness.