Pathways OKW & SSR to DD (Just for fun)

[Caskbill]

This is just for fun. As everyone probably knows, you can walk from OKW or SSR to DD. So just playing around with some satellite images, thought I'd draw them out.

The image is when the SSR area was still the Disney Institute, so you'll have to use your imagination a little.

From OKW it's a 0.93 mile walk as I measured it 4-years ago. (See This Thread - sorry but links to photos there no longer work, but text is still correct.)

Have not actually measured the SSR distances yet.

The red line goes from OKW next to building #55 and enters DD West Side area near HoB.

The yellow line goes approximately from the Congress Park area of the current SSR resort, toward the main SSR complex, across the bridge and joins the OKW path.

The purple line goes approximately from the Congress Park area out to Buena Vista Drive, across a small bridge, and joins DD at the same area as the main DD bus stops.

For those of you using 800x600 screen resolution, sorry but you'll have to scroll left and right to see everything. If I made the photo smaller, the detail got pretty bad. (Much worse than it is now)

 

[OneMoreTry]

I'd be interested to know how far it is from OKW to DD itself (or from West Side to DD -- it looks like about 2/3 mile.)

Thanks for posting this. I'm a wannabe maven.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Something like this makes me want to stay at OKW and not do parks, just explore the area. Thank you for the information. If I were to attempt it, are there any signs at all, directing you from OKW to DTD, or do I really need your directions?

Bobbi

 

[Caskbill]

Something like this makes me want to stay at OKW and not do parks, just explore the area. Thank you for the information. If I were to attempt it, are there any signs at all, directing you from OKW to DTD, or do I really need your directions?

Bobbi

You don't really need any signs, and I think the only signs posted are right at the beginning of the path about no motorized vehicles. The path is closed after dark and I think there might be some signs to that effect.

There are no signs within the OKW resort area itself that direct you to the beginning of the path.

At OKW, just walk down toward the South Point bus stop, then walk down the street all the way toward building #55. At the end of the drive is a small golf cart bridge going over the water. Cross the bridge, turn left on to the path, and just follow it all the way to DD West Side.

 

[DVCconvert]

It's a very pleasant walk too! Following the canal, going thru woods, it's very relaxing!

 

[rriley25]

Which walk is further? The walk from OKW to DTD or the walk from BW/BC/YC to MGM?

 

[DebbieDVC]

I do not know the actual distances but we ventured one day from the hospitality house at OKW to DownTown Disney...Marketplace and it seemed like it took forever! We have frequently walked from the BeachClub to MGM and I consider that walk very pleasant in length. I think the walk from OKW seemed so long as it took awhile to get from the hospitality house to the actual path itself plus we really had no idea where we were going and howlong the actual path was. After that long weekend trip, I had the worst sun burn just on my face...I credit the long walk. The path is not marked very well and I think we ventured off the path maybe. Walked thru a deserted condo/villa area before getting to the main road by the Marketplace bus area. Next time I will know what to expect and the walk will be much more enjoyable.

 

[Caskbill]

The path is not marked very well and I think we ventured off the path maybe. Walked thru a deserted condo/villa area before getting to the main road by the Marketplace bus area. Next time I will know what to expect and the walk will be much more enjoyable.

If you're talking several years ago, you probably crossed the golf cart bridge and went into the old Disney Institute. Those villas have all been torn down now and that's where SSR is being built.

If you're talking recently, then you really got lost and wound up by the old Treehouse villas, but you can't easily get from there to DD so I think you went through the old Institute before SSR was started.

 

[Bojo]

I do not know the actual distances but we ventured one day from the hospitality house at OKW to DownTown Disney...Marketplace and it seemed like it took forever! ... Walked thru a deserted condo/villa area before getting to the main road by the Marketplace bus area. Next time I will know what to expect and the walk will be much more enjoyable.

You definately got off the path. I walked it from DTD to OKW last month and started from West Side, not Marketplace. Sounds like you toured the TreeHouse Villa area and entered DTD from the East. I agree that it is not well marked; it also has multiple names. I saw OKW Nature Trail as its name on most signs. I found it to be a very relaxing walk.

 

[DukeStreetKing]

I tried to walk from DTD to OKW on Thursday and could only get as far at the golf cart bridge heading towards SSR. There was a temporary barricade blocking the rest of the path to OKW. There were also many CAT-type construction vechicles across the river from where the path was blocked off.

 

[Caskbill]

Which walk is further? The walk from OKW to DTD or the walk from BW/BC/YC to MGM?

Based on previous measurements I've taken, and some basic mathematics, best estimates are of walking distances:

OKW to edge of DD West Side: 0.93 miles (measured)
OKW to center section of DD: Approx 1.3 miles (estimated)
MGM ticket booth to near end of BWV: 0.55 miles (measured)
MGM ticket booth to BWV Luna Park Pool: 0.66 miles (measured)
BWV dock to BC/YC dock: 0.35 miles (measured)

Best guess extrapolated distance from MGM ticket booth to lobby of BC/YC: Approx 1.0 miles. (estimated)

So the walk from the edge of OKW to the center of DD is definitely the further walk.

 

[dianeschlicht]

No wonder I think the walk to DTD is easy! I have a half mile just to my mailbox and back, so the walk to DTD seems a breeze to me!

 

[Bojo]

I tried to walk from DTD to OKW on Thursday and could only get as far at the golf cart bridge heading towards SSR. There was a temporary barricade blocking the rest of the path to OKW. There were also many CAT-type construction vechicles across the river from where the path was blocked off.

They may be repairing some hurricane damage alomg the canal. My last walk along that route was early April (5th or 6th) and I did notice a fair amonut of damage @ the old Tree House area.