Disney’s River Country

Orlando, FL

Did you know there were abandoned Disney parks throughout Florida? Disney’s River Country was a waterpark that was created in the aesthetic of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Opening in 1976, the waterpark relied on local, filtered water for it’s pools and slides, as well as sandy bottomed pools.

Whether it was the death of a boy in 1980 from microbes found in the local, Florida water, the logistics of keeping this ‘authentic’ waterpark open, or 9/11, the park was closed and abandoned in the winter of 2001. Now it just a creepy and empty park.