Is River Country closed for good?

[TimeforMe]

My kids both decided that since we've been to both of the other water parks, they wanted to try this on our next trip in August. From what I can tell, this park is closed Are there any plans to re-open it or is it gone forever?

 

[wdw4us2]

The park has been closed for almost two years now.

It doesn't look like it's going to reopen, at least not as it was.

You never know, though.

 

[Earstou]

There was a flyer for the water parks in my reservation info packet that I received last week. It describes BB and TL and has pictures of those two parks. The only mention of RC is a line at the bottom that states: Please note that Disney's River Country Water Park will remain closed until further notice.

 

[marymrg]

Do you know why it closed? Low attendance?

 

[kdonnel]

I think there were some environmental issues with keeping the water from River Country from mingling with the water from the lake.

As I understand it there is a giant inflatable bladder that keeps the water apart. It became a maintenance nightmare to keep repairing the bladder.

The tree huggers would have crucified Disney if they kept dumping chlorinated water into a lake ecosystem.

Plus I think it has a very limited capacity for guests. While TL and BB fill up quickly RC filled up instantly.

 

[Horizons16]

that is what is asumed as the realy reason... a lot of other causes like drastic drops in ticket sales and so on with the bladder nightmare as you called it. As to if is going to ever re-open nobody is really sure. They should find a way to make a concrete wall instead of the bladder. However i dont even know if this is possible without draining something... it just kind of came to me so im not saying that this WILL happen just an idea

~Steve