Disney's River Country: Abandoned

Abandoned water park in walt disney world. River country closed a few years back, now it has been left to the elements. Not much to see anymore as nature has completely taken over.

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Travel & Events

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• disney
• river
• country
• water
• park
• abandoned
• closed
• old
• first

[WetCoyote]

Seems like a cheap clorine induction system would take care of bacteria if that was the only angle, LatinVixen. More than likely it was prolly one of economy. Adding filtration and treatment plus I am guessing more spectacular water parks was putting the attraction in the red for the bean counters made it cheaper to shut it down.

What will happen at some point like most parks, it will be a spot for something new at some point. When they raze it all you will know something is up.

[LatinVixen]

@WetCoyote the giant pool was connected with the main lake that goes over to magic kingdom. So you can't treat the whole lake with chlorine. It was unsafe according to everything I had read and probably not up to par with the new water parks.

[JohnStripedfur]

So sad. I've heard some good things about that water park. Wonder why Disney decided to stop running that park.

[LatinVixen]

@JohnStripedfur Pretty sure they had a problem with the water. Seeing as one of the main pools was connected to the lake there were some issues with bacteria in the water affecting people. In the long run it was to expensive to fix so they just abandoned the place and left it to rot.

[evvee345]

really creepy actually

[Ditohama]

Pffhh, y'know what they need to do? See where nature's going with it. Take what they've got, alter it a little bit, bam, Florida Everglades, sans having to actually leave the park.

As a non-Floridian, if I couldn't go see an actual swamp, I'd at least check that out.

...video-wise, you're gutsy to go poking around, I bet you've seen some neat stuff.

[Clanki]

In my country you would be required to bulldoze everything, take all the stuff out and put dirt there so it looks all natural again.

[FlowCell]

Florida plants are very agreesive so home owners are constantly battling nature.

[fgfgd2]

wow this is ubber cool you into urban exploration or just checkin this place out

[Andreus]

Abandoned things are cool.

[draco751]

Nice! I've always wanted to get over there some time and take a look around! You should of scared those other people scoping the place out too, lol.

[WetCoyote]

@JohnStripedfur Well, really there is not much there to recycle. Most of it as its already shown, has gone back to nature. The property however, is valuable, and I bet when some new attraction gets thought up that will need that much space, it will be done there.