We've walked when it's been hubby and I, but when we had the grands, we took the inner campground bus. You can get off the bus at the front or the back of the meadows (where the campfire is). We easily beat the bus by walking..it happened to be a bus that stopped at just about every campers loop. If you are bringing your own car, you would not walk back to the car parking lot after the campfire. You would take a bus. At night, unless you like bumping into armadillo's and you have a flashlight, you would also take the bus back up to where you had your Hoop review..and then either get a bus back ot Ticket and Trans, or catch a boat to the MK/Tic Trans. We actually parked at the contemporary and took the boat over to the campground...we just told the guard we wanted to do it that way. On the way home, we were in the water, as the electric parade started. It was a lucky trip..we saw MK fireworks just after our Review and before we wen to the campfire.
One note..please, if you have little kids, even though they have a little rail around the fire..stay close. Some parents just send their kids up to it, and they put their marshmallow stick into the fire, and when the marshmallow catches on fire, they just swing around..not realizing other people are standing there.