There is a substantial barrier blocking the way.
I don't know about 'substantial'... a few years ago my friend and I jumped the fence at night and wandered over there for a little bit. Pretty freaky but no one said anything to us.
Here's my trip report from that night...
I had been reading and seen
youtube videos of the unfinished Legendary Years at Pop for awhile now. I think the story goes that Disney started construction of the buildings but after Sept 11th, construction stopped due to the decrease of visitors. They're supposed to be starting up again maybe soon? So I had mentioned it to Evan who surprisingly had NEVER heard of it but really wanted to go see it. I've seen videos of people wandering the site so I knew it wasn't 100% illegal to do. Now... the BRIGHT and SMART thing to do would have been to do this during the day and sunlight, right? Well, apparently Evan and I weren't really thinking straight and decided to go snoop around a deserted unfinished abandoned construction site at 9:30pm. But hmm...how do we get there????? Looking at the maps I knew it was on the other side of the bridge and lake so we headed over that way..
so we were at the generation gap bridge..
and after we crossed, the iron fence just wrapped around and wouldn't let you go any further. I was ready to call it a night but my fearless leader Evan was all about seeing the construction. After he poked his head and arms around the bushes that were on the other side of the fence he proclaims he sees something and it's clear after that one small row of bushes and trees.
ME: You want me to JUMP this fence and CLIMB through bushes and trees in the pitch black?!
Evan: Um...yeah? The moon is out so we can see where we're going
Me: wow... you owe me big (as I throw my leg over the fence)... lol
I also pointed out that if we got caught or if this was illegal in any way.. he was leaving the next morning so it didnt really matter. ME on the other hand still had 4 more days so if we got booted... I would have killed him.
After getting through the bushes we could see all the buildings laid out in front of us. Straight ahead was what would be the main building (with all the big numbers on it) and then off to the right was what looked like room buildings.
So I'm a scaredy cat when it comes to these things so I think I stuck to Evan like glue the whole entire time..... here's a few pics of the adventure.. (we had to keep taking pics b/c it was too dark sometimes and I needed flash to see where I was going!)
trekking through the unkept grass..
Oh....so we get to the front of the building and decide to walk around to the other side first. We get there (luckily for some reason it was easier to see over there) and there's this huge white structure sitting in the grass that kinda looked like a cement mixer from far away...which would have been expected, right? Well instead after closer inspection we realized it was a... submarine?!
yeah it was... and then we started getting freaked out..
We headed back to the front of the building and started walking towards the room construction
I really dont know why all these pics came out as bad as they did....
some unfinished rooms..
thank God the door was locked or he would have dragged me in there..
so after getting thoroughly freaked out I finally convinced him to head back to civilization and we could go back the next morning during the daylight. Deal. Whew! So we high tailed it out of there, back through the bushes, and over the fence. yay! we're alive!
did get a great view of the hotel though!
Did you go back in daytime?
