Beyond the Disney World boundary, the success of the park played a major role in the proliferation of water parks around the United States in the 1970s and 80s, with many having derivatives of Disney’s attractions (though not their intricate theming). For Disney, the park served its purpose of keeping guests on property and became an integral part of a Walt Disney World vacation for millions of. River Country was a huge hit, to put it mildly. These included large water slides, an inner-tube river, a sand-bottom lake, and a play area featuring tire swings and bridges.” As we explained back in 2020, the park was based on an old “swimmin’ hole” right out of the stories of Tom Sawyer and contained “numerous water-based attractions that would become industry standard at water parks in future decades.
So how and when did water parks come to Walt Disney World, why did one of them close under mysterious circumstances, and what does the future hold for the remaining two? Let’s find out…ĭisney World’s water park history begins on June 20th, 1976 when the company’s first water park River Country opened on the shores of Bay Lake near the Fort Wilderness campground. While Walt Disney World is best known for it’s four theme parks, any guest who has ever vacationed there knows there’s way more to the property than the Magic Kingdom and its cohorts, including near 30 resort hotels, a shopping and dining district, and – our focus today – world class water parks: Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach.
The History of Disney World’s Water Parks
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