An article about River Country

[DisneyBabies]

I saw this this morning and thought others may like to see it:

http://hellogiggles.com/photos-abandoned-disney-water-park-will-haunt-dreams/

Couple of questions though:
Did that photographer really have permission to go into River Country for those photos? He rented a boat, so maybe he had permission to boat around it, but why would Disney give him permission to actually go into River Country?

Also, there were quite a few misconceptions throughout that article and it amazes me that people don't do a little more fact checking than going to ask the nearest CM.

In the end, I think the pictures were beautiful in their own way. DH and I never got to go to WDW as children (our first trip wasn't until 2008) so we never saw River Country (or Discovery Island) as it was which kinda bums me out, but Mother Nature is reclaiming the land in her own way and I think it is amazing to watch. Wonder what it will look like in another decade ...

**Mods, please move this if necessary, I wasn't sure where it should go.

 

[mom2rtk]

Yeah, there's no way Disney gave the photographer permission to visit the island, let alone photograph the island.

 

[Jadyreen1282]

It just keeps returning to the earth.

 

[mshanson3121]

Maybe they'll start offering $150 tours of the abandoned water park.

 

[Yarbogash]

I so wish I'd made it to River Country. It looked great. For anyone who went, was it ever crowded?

 

[DisneyBabies]

Maybe they'll start offering $150 tours of the abandoned water park.

Hahahaha ... seems like it'd be more worth it than that MK monstrosity they are promoting now. No way are a few rides and Mickey Bars worth $150 (to me at least); thought if they include other things, I would reconsider.

 

[mshanson3121]

I can see it now: nighttime "ghost story" tours.

 

[mom2rtk]

I can see it now: nighttime "ghost story" tours.

I might actually pay for that.

 

[mshanson3121]

I might actually pay for that.

Haha, me too!
It really is a shame to see the place go to waste like that. Surely they could have repurposed.

 

[jmkjr72]

I've taken a boat around the former river country and there is no way he got those pics from a boat rented from disney. When you look at several of them he is clearly way above bay lake and facing bay lake. Won't be long disney will find him tresspass him unless he has all pics pulled down

 

[DisneyBabies]

I wonder if he's the one who put the hat there ...