We stayed at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Campground, within Walt Disney World, Florida. (Campground Reviews listing.)
So nice to spend over a week inside the Disney bubble. Disney World is huge, covering 25,000 acres (39 sq mi; 101 sq km), including four theme parks, dozens of resorts, golf courses, etc. The Fort Wilderness Campground is 750 acres of tree-covered paved campsites, cabins, and various amenities, with boats and buses to the parks.
Dates:
- Check in: 2024-02-25
- Check out: 2024-03-05
- 9 nights
- We had originally booked 7 nights, but added a couple more
Weather:
- Mostly sunny; a little rain later in the stay
- High temps 75-82°F, lows around 47-62°F
- Negligible wind
Noise:
- No freeway noise
- Little road noise (including bus on main road)
- No train noise
- Some neighbor noise (kids, especially basketball)
Site:
- #1334, back in, concrete
- Needed to disconnect toad, parked beside coach
- Level; used hydraulic leveling
- Concrete driveway about 60 feet long by 15 feet wide
- Trees between sites about 20 feet wide
- Picnic table
- No fire pit
- Mostly clean site (a little minor trash)
Utilities:
- 50 amp power, somewhat inconveniently located
- 60 PSI water, somewhat inconveniently located
- Good sewer connection, conveniently located (1 10-foot pipe needed)
Internet (in usage priority order):
- T-Mobile: 40-50 Mbps down, 35-45 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- AT&T: 500 Mbps down, 25 Mbps up, 70 ms ping
- Verizon: 25 Mbps down, 25 Mbps up, 25 ms ping
- Starlink: not used
- Campground Wi-Fi: not used
Amenities:
- Pools
- Garbage bin near site
- Golf cart rental
- Boats and buses to Disney World parks
Our review on Campground Reviews:
A state park, but make it Disney!
If you’re an RVer and want to do the Disney Bubble experience, this is the place to be. Direct access to all the parks from the campground (boat to Magic Kingdom, buses to all the others) and a bit of that trademark Disney flare in the campground itself. We stayed a week and have already booked for next year, we enjoyed everything so much. We spent pretty much all day every day at the theme parks, so didn’t use many of the amenities in the campground, but it looked like you could have a blast of a day just hanging out here.
Our site (1334) was plenty big enough for our 40′ motorhome, tow vehicle, and rented golf cart. Renting a golf cart is a must. There are shuttles that run through the campground, but we enjoyed the freedom of getting around on our own timetable. Unfortunately, our site was right next to a playground with a basketball halfcourt that some sociopaths thought would be fun to play on late at night and early in the morning. Not cool.
One other minor niggle was that we decided to extend our stay while we were there. I called the number for reservations and was told that only the front desk could do that. Went to the front desk and was told that they couldn’t do it because we’d booked a package through the Disney Travel Co. So I booked a new reservation online and then went to the front desk to get them to join the two reservations so we didn’t have to check out and check in again. A bit less magical than I expected from Disney customer service, but we got there in the end. We camped at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground in a Motorhome.
Campground map:
An interactive map:
Our site:
We rented a golf cart during our stay, which is highly recommended to get to the boat and bus stops, and other amenities:
(They do have a shuttle bus to take people to various parts of the campground, too, so a cart isn’t critical, but it is more convenient.)
More of our site; we didn’t really use the site, other than to sleep, since we were at the parks during the days:
Utilities:
One thing we didn’t enjoy was that our site was right next to a playground, with a basketball hoop; kids bouncing basketballs is super annoying for us DINKs:
The campground offered horse and cart rides:
A popular thing is to decorate the golf carts, which not only makes them more festive, but also easier to spot in a parking lot (if you look at the earlier pictures, we added a couple of koi wind socks to ours).
Some examples of decorations:
On our first evening we attended the onsite Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue:
Afterwards, we watched the Magic Kingdom fireworks from the nearby beach:
Welcome to Fort Wilderness:
Store:
We took the boat to the Magic Kingdom park on several days:
Pioneer Hall has mobile-order or grab-and-go food options:
Bathrooms:
Other sites, which people often decorate too:
There are sections of the campground with cabins, for people without RVs:
The Meadow Swimmin’ Pool:
An excellent campground. We’ll be happy to stay here again in the future (though would see if we can request a site away from playgrounds etc).
