Happy 35th Anniversary Fort Wilderness!

[Colson39]

On November 19th, 1971, Fort Wilderness opened to the general public, just weeks after the Walt Disney World Resort. November 19th, 2006 marks the 35th anniversary of our favorite campground!!!

Here's to many, many memories, both past, present, and future!!!!

 

[tim5055]

Yup, it was a whole lot smaller back then also..

Fort Wilderness opened November 19, 1971 on 750 acres between the Contemporary Resort and the Walt Disney World Village. At that time it had 231 camping sites including loops 100 - 600.

June 1973 added 481 sites, loops 700 - 1900

April 1974 Pioneer Hall opened

June 1976 added 113 sites, loops 2000 - 2100

June 1976 River Country opened

April 1979 added Creekside Meadow group camping area

December 1986 added 383 trailer sites*, loops 2200 - 2800

* the current sites of cabins had rental Terry Trailers on them

 

[auntie]

Happy Anniversary FW!

 

[Aisling]

Happy Anniversary to Fort Wilderness. I've been a lurker on this board for years, but still haven't camped or cabined! I love reading about all of your adventures, and learning about camping at FW. My kids are hotel snobs, so it's hard to get them to do FW, but it's my dream. My best Disney souvie is my FW towel!