Refurbishment work continues at the Copper Creek Villas & Cabins and Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort, with some more of the scaffolding shifted farther down the main building and some exterior columns being prepped for repainting.
Refurbishment work continues at the Copper Creek Villas & Cabins at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge. The room refurbishments began in mid-May 2025 and ended
in September 2025, but the actual building work has no specific end date listed yet. However, the resort still shows multiple signs of construction work in progress as of this October.
By the overpass area, several sections are blocked off by cones, barriers, and warning tape as crew members work on repainting the wood beams.
The guest walkway to the side is also completely blocked off with barriers.
A sign placed in front has the usual “Please Pardon our Pixie Dust” language. Behind it, we could see a lift and some equipment stages for what we expect will be more repainting work.
Inside the resort’s main lobby, the windows facing outside continue to be blocked with tree-patterned decals,
as they were during our last update.
The terrace by the lobby remains closed, with a folding sign in front of the door and a second “Terrace Closed” sign attached directly to the glass.
Outside, we could see no visible signs of work remaining, so the terrace may reopen in the near future.
The right wing of the main building is still covered in scaffolding, though it has shifted more to the side since our last update. It is visible outside the windows on many of the floors.
Peering outside, it appears that more of the wood beams by the guest room balconies may be prepped for repainting.
Looking down, the usually tranquil nature and guest walkways by the water features have been overtaken by piles of equipment, supplies, metal poles, beams, and barriers.
Up on a higher floor, we could see crew members in the process of prepping more of the columns for repainting.
The hallway leading down to
Roaring Forkand
Story Book Dining at Artist Point also continues to have all its windows blocked with more of those foggy forest decals.
The roof work on the building also continues, with crew members seen climbing the slope using wires.
Looking at the scaffolding area from the outside, the columns in need of repainting are more readily apparent. The pale tan color will be replaced with the darker brown color to match the rest of the building.
Some of the paths outside have been blocked to go around the refurbishment work. Green barriers have signs pointing guests toward the lobby using alternate routes.
As previously mentioned, the
Walt Disney World website does have a warning that the Wilderness Lodge Resort is undergoing exterior refurbishment work beginning in August of 2024. While “all resort amenities will remain available,” there is no scheduled end date listed yet.
I did see that it's only open when there is a cast member is the gym. The daily activity sheet is supposed to tell what hours it's staffed. At least, that is what I have gathered in my research. That could be wrong!
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