River Country at Walt Disney World

21/06/2023

07/01/2019

In the 1983 issue of "Vaction Guide," River Country is featured as a planned day for any vacation.

22/08/2017

http://www.insidethemagic.net/2017/08/lost-theme-parks-take-dive-back-walt-disney-worlds-shuttered-river-country/

Water slides, lazy rivers, and host of other aquatic adventures are popular today to the point where even hotels have these refreshing recreational feature

19/07/2017

This came from the "Walt Disney World Pictorial Souvenir" book from 1984.

30/04/2017

The pool is officially filled in. Here is a link to a video of the proof!

https://youtu.be/NAp6vMdFJ4w

A visit to Disney's Abandoned River Country this fall shows the main water slide pool is now filled in with dirt. What are they doing now after 15 years?! Th...

27/08/2016

Disney crews are now draining the park's largest pool to limit mosquitoes, a growing concern related due to the Zika virus in Florida.

26/08/2016

It looks like something is finally happening.

The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Walt Disney World is draining and filling in the pool at River Country, the water park that has been abandoned since closing in 2002. Upstream Plunge was a 330,000-gallon pool that was “surrounded by manmade boulders for jumping and diving platforms.” This pool...

22/05/2016

22/05/2016

Here is a place where you can find a leftover piece of the old River Country.

22/05/2016

This is a 2016 update and is the most complete telling I have found so far! Enjoy.

Dive into the most detailed history ever written of Disney's River Country, the abandoned water park that sits decaying on the shore of Walt Disney World's Bay Lake.

28/05/2015

Here is a scan from the back of an old Blizzard Beach guide map. It shows River Country as being one of the other water adventures. Discovery Island is also featured.

08/03/2015

Here is a price and hour list from 1989. River Country is featured.

11/08/2014

This is a scan from an old page in "The Disney News" when it was still in publication.

28/07/2014

Some of the tickets for River Country included Discovery Island. It is also closed now. Here is a map of Discovery Island.

28/07/2014

28/07/2014

Here is a park map showing River Country as being one of the three water parks on the Disney World property.