Explore - Disney's River Country 2017
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- I return to give everyone an update on what Disney's abandoned water park, River Country looks like as of 2017. Incredibly the pool area along with other parts of the park still can be seen from the parks former entrance area.
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Bright Sun Films 2017
Jake:"there's so many lizards and things crawling around here!"
me: welcome to Florida, bro
Jake: "to be fair, I guess that's all of Florida."
+Brittany Patton i'm one step ahead
TheSonicGuy he's in Florida, we all know that. This is Walt Disney World, in FLORIDA
meanwhile every time, I, a michigander, going to disney world, chasing lizards to catch them.
Bright sun films are they rebuilding it
Y'all have any idea how much money Disney would have if they just allow tours of the abandoned parks? This stuff is so interesting people love exploring their childhoods and things of the past it's a perfect money maker. 🤦🏽♀️😂
GreyLine Studios they'd have to bring everything up to code though and then it wouldn't look abandoned lol
Injury lawsuits are pretty much the answer to that question
GreyLine Studios that's what I said lol
They could just have you sign a waver saying what ever happens while you're there isn't their fault
Thomas Dickson a wavier would solve that, but the the would struggle to get people to come.
Broke in there about an hour ago. At around 3AM December 27 2017. It was pretty easy getting into. But me and my friend had a lot of rock climbing to do to get back there. There was an opening behind a shed and we went on from there and walked around walking over branches and leaves everywhere. I was pretty scared because it was my first time going in an abandoned place like that. But it was pretty creepy too. Walked along the lazy river and saw a lot of other shit. We started hearing noises and saw poisonous spiders so we decided to leave. It was a cool experience though.
So why don't they tear down River Country, instead of just putting up fences that tbh won't keep the more curious ones out.
Alex McGhee maybe they are re-building river county
It's just they have plans for the land, but the cost of breaking it down is unnecessary at this time. They'll get to it only when they have to. The fence may be going up to hide construction going on there soon as well as to keep nosy people out.
Also as Jake said, they are/were reusing the area of River Country that wasn't fenced off for some dinner party thing, so they're just putting fences up to keep people away from the abandoned section.
Alex McGhee if you wanna see more on river country check out my video
Disney is trying to attracts ghosts. Walt Disney himself believed in all kind of occult stuff. They rarely tear anything down except horizons.
Hi everyone- I live in Orlando and after seeing this video I wanted to check out river country (legally) for myself. I went to fort wilderness today, found the location, and they already have this pathway roped off. The farthest I got was the ticket booth. Please like this comment so others can see!
Rachel Elizabeth I went and saw this as well.
Probably a dangerous idea.
Brainulator9 why?
Rachel Elizabeth 69 likes lmao
Your River Country videos are the best group of videos to watch if you want to see how far you've truly come. The five-ish videos about the park all differ immensely in quality, with each increasing drastically as they get more recent. It's really interesting to see how much more effort you started putting into the more recent ones, and how young you were in the older ones.
this is by far the best river country video ever produced, killing it jake
+Maddie Doyle Thank you thank you thank you
Maddie Doyle if you wanna see more on river country check out my video
shameless self promotion is shameless
Maddie Doyle best, lol not at all. no hate but he didn't even go in
My thinking on the question you ask around 9:30 is because the buildings were close to the fence and easily seen in their decrepit state. You could see them if you were wandering around, waiting to enter the Hoop De Doo Review and, despite the desire to not have to put money into removing the majority of River Country, they also don't want guests gawking at things in disrepair. That's why largely, what remains are things that are easily hid behind the fencing they use (when folks haven't poked holes to look through that is). The taller structures, such as what you point out, aren't in such a state that they are obviously remains of something that was left abandoned. Unless you truly knew what you were looking at, you'd likely not even realize it was something man-made or, at the very least, something that's been sitting left abandoned as long as it has.
I saw it a year or two ago before they filled it with sand. I stood on one of the rocks to look over the fence. The rocks were still in one piece and the slides also didnt look worn down like that. Thats crazy how much different it looks in that amount of time.
We need drone shots over river country!
Donny Tucker you can't legally fly drones over Disney property dude
Donny Tucker if they spot the drone , They can't really do anything ( Unless you have it marked )
they can take the drone down.
David Morford Do you know how hard it would be to shoot down a drone at full speed with Police grade Firearms?
But thats of course if they know someone is trying to shoot it down
Would you ever consider attending the Disney annual shareholder meeting and asking Iger about the future of the River Country site? May not get much of an answer, but would likely be the only way to find out more.
+Jake Mullan Time to buy some stock
Bright Sun Films do it. The location for the meeting changes every year, but would be a worthwhile experience anyways.
Jake Mullan dont ask Bob, hes corporate Disney.
George Kalkgredis is the pres of wdw and he would know for sure. Ill see if i can get some info on it
CardinalKaos I've heard it's possible to reach George by email. Though not sure how much an answer we'd get from either Iger or him.
i have a couple family members that work very closely with him at team disney, so ill see if they can slip it in there sometime lol
and i wouldn't be shocked by getting a reply from george either. That man works his ass off. basically lives in his office. Hes the first one in and last one to go home just about every day lol
thank you for not being stupid and risking your ability to visit disney world!
i'm glad you kept it legal and stayed behind the fence while still giving good info.
Glad you are back Jake. I thought you got us ABANDONED. Get it? Ok no...
BADUM TISSS!!!!
🎵 River Country big River Country it's a hoot it's a hollar it's a water jamboree🎵
🎵River Country big River Country if you're hot around the collar it's cool place to be🎵
that would make an awesome ringtone
Tommy Wiseau lol
“You are tearing me apart Minnie!”
“Oh hi Donald”
I grew up in Florida as a child during the 80s and 90s. Such a pleasure going to River Country during its heyday. I enjoy these videos for the nostalgia.
That ending was simply perfect.
Theres always a certain level of excitement that i experience when i see a bright sun films video that no other youtube channel manages to achieve
I tried exploring it when I went recently lol but cast members found me
Maddie Haddie1234 what they say
Maddie Haddie1234 did you froget your towel
That's because photo negative mickey is there for real though he not there
10:53 where picnic tables go to die.
Awesome video, had no clue you could see this in person and not get in trouble!
WHY IS THIS SO FASCINATING?!?!? WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?!?!?
Bryan B the body's of the employees that refused to wear those stupid mascot costumes for the 57th time in a row....
I think Disney is slowly going to be integrating River Country into Fort Wilderness over the next few years to Decades.
As much as I already love these kind of videos, you make them so much more interesting with your phenomenal editing! Thank you so much for taking us on a journey and telling a story. This is one of my favourite channels for sure.
+Stacey Kershaw thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Cast Member: Don't forget your towel, you're going to need it.
Guy: Shit I forgot it!
Cast Member: You're dead to me
there hiding the fact that they are secretly towels
It's kinda sad. So much fun was had there, and now... nothing.
Finally! Someone who understands how I feel about abandoned amusement parks! You can just feel all the memories that were had there, but now it's completely silent.
Scott Robertson that's how I feel as well, it's quite scary. I always wonder how many first kisses were had there, how many proposals, how many bonds were made. It's just so scary to see how it is now
Michaela Clark that's what's going to happen to everything eventually...stuff like this really remind you of that....
I fell sad too
The vents in them rocks is fo' smells boy...
they're the same ones you'll see all over the park they'd be in front of the towels and sundries shop to allure customers by wafting delicious scents into their nasal cavities.
When I hear the word abandoned I think your channel. The only UA-cam channel that I can't wait for more videos to come out. The new cancelled show is awesome. I appreciate the work you put in to these vids. Best River country explore I've seen
+Ben Stockford Thank you so much!
Ahhh, River Country. I was fortunate enough as a kid to have gone here once about a year or two before it was closed. It was fun, but I remember thinking at the time how small it was compared to Typhoon Lagoon and that swimming in lake water was really gross to me. Not sad to see it gone, but I remember it being fun for what it was.
Shut Up
Love Your Videos! I Click so Fast when I see a new vid! keep it up! :)
+TrippTendo thanks
your welcome my good man!
It's pretty sad that barely anything remains to see nowadays but just imagine how devastating it will be when Disney eventually gets tired of explorers and plows the land.
I wonder if the holes were made on purpose to let people see the River Country side....
River Country is one of the coolest concepts ever devolped by Disney. Such A good idea so poorly executed. Great footage as usual!
You should do a whole episode on just Epcot's history of failed exhibits
Oh man, I'm so glad they filled the pools with sand! All that stillwater always made me so nervous. Great to get an update from the state of things once in a while, specially from you, Jake! Great video as always
That Big River Country song will be stuck in my head for eternity.
reason for not demolishing certain thing can fall under. Not needing to spend the money for it right away might be the big one. could be they might be able to salvage certain things from it. maybe come up with a plan to reuse the structure. Or not ready to take it down until a plan is ready to be able to use the area for something.
I want to see "Mickey's Hoopty Roopty Doo: The Dinner Show or Something"
It's called the Hoopty Doo Review I believe
The show there was Mickey's Backyard BBQ. Hoop Dee Doo is another building and inside.
Lynette Franklin hoop dee doo is inside a large building.
You should do a video on Kiddieland from Melrose Park, IL, it's gone now but it would make an interesting video, it was there for 80 years 1929-09.
Be very very careful dude. Adam the woo got banned for this as well as going through the abandoned Nickelodeon studio a couple years back, he was banned just this year.
Forever or they gave him a few years thing?
Lilli Trujillo Jake got permission, it was at the time of filming an open area only with roped off portions. But now I believe it is completely sealed off, I could be mistaken but to my knowledge that's what I've been led to believe is that they finally completely shut it down
He was let back in
In my fictional world, this place never gets abandoned and still successful
This place was shut down due to an obvious stated reasons but what makes me wonder why come back to it why keep the electricity on? after all those incidents why return to it at all after in 2005 it will never come back but son of a bitch theres construction right there
Pretty much everything looks clean and beautiful
Your videos have an amazing power to make me care about things I didn't know I cared about. Utterly fascinating.
I remember going there as a kid, its so sad seeing it like this. :(. Brings back so many memories
looks pretty well maintained at the entrance considering it's been closed for 16 years.
i discovered your channel through your older river country vids a while back, so i was stoked to see you've returned. excellent video as usual, i didn't want it to end.
so sad to see this. I worked there as a lifeguard from 1981 to 1983. have lots of great memories from that time
I work here in fort wilderness.. the opening to river country is Mickeys Backyard BBQ now.. also since the hurricane you can see a lot more of river country through the fence over by tri-circle D ranch.. 😁
The whole time I was hoping you'd go into the open door in the shower/towel area!
But I have to parrot that your editing for this is amazing, and I'm always happy to see you pop up in my subscriptions!
this was easily the best video you've made visually the VHS and other effects make it feel like lost footage
Adam the Woo got kicked out of Disney for a while for doing a River Country video. Are you worried? Or did they allow you to do this? Nonetheless, I enjoy your videos, and I'm loving this one! Haha. Thanks for being brave for those of us who aren't! Lol!
+Lindsay Harper Everything I did was 100% legal
Also, Disney has let a lot of the people who did this back in. There's one girl who got banned after posting a video with her and her friends walking on the rotting wooden water slides that was let back in before even Adam's got reversed.
I am pretty sure the reason Disney started banning people for this was the huge liability they had of not securing the site and then people popularizing it. It was a lawsuit waiting to happen and the fact that WDW did not erect fences after announcing the permanent closure in 2005 was really bad.
Awesome! I was actually mostly curious if anyone could get permission to film there or what not. That's awesome, though. Thanks for the answer. Love your videos.
@5:10 was indeed the towel rental window, as well as the men's, and women's locker rooms. @5:55 Yes, those were lights. The whole mountain was made the same way as the rocks. The buildings that were attached to the locker room were the admin offices, and attached to that was Pop's Cafe food concessions. Opposite that, I think you were looking at what used to be the souvenir kiosk, over on the picnic table side of the main walkway. @12:00 Yes on the loudspeakers. They were up on poles like the light pole you saw. Used for announcements, and to clear the water and beach when the storms rolled in.
10:02
It would appear they filled in the Upstream Plunge pool due to Zika by filling it with dirt. Would it be a safe assumption that they leveled the building to get the dirt truck in?
And I think they don't level a building unless it's falling in on itself or poses a threat to guests for other various reasons
It was still running when I was last at WDW in 2000, but so overshadowed by Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach that my family never even went to it. If we had known it was going to close soon after our visit we totally would've gone to see it. Though I know there are many reasons it won't happen, I'd love to see River Country restored and reopened.
Seeing all of this brings tears to my eyes. Especially the old promo video parts. It's so sad to see such an iconic and well known place get destroyed over the years. I never went there, but my parents said they used to go there all the time. I told them what had happened to it and they reacted the same way I did.
Disney should make this a museum. Not tear it down. It's a piece of Disney history that needs to be remembered.
My favorite abandoned site + my favorite UA-cam channel = a very happy me :) Nice job as always!
It's amazing the work they do. For me there's a feeling of the people, the children that came and enjoyed the park and how Disney just dreams it up and then then it dying off just feels kinda sad.
I LOVE THIS FOOTAGE
I wish I was a kid at the time and that I could go to Disney jus to go to River Country .
or all the old old rides that shut down
There is this awesome but very unknown UA-cam channel called Florida Phlash Backs. They have many home videos from the 90s of Disney Parks, including River Country and Discovery Island! Go check it out!
Jenn Maxwell thank you so much.
Jenn Maxwell I found it thanks!!
Wow! Never seen an abandoned water faucet look that pretty!
aww the memories the first water park i ever went to
Aw man now I have the River Country song stuck in my head
That jingle gave me the chills XD
This was sad. I remember this park. So many memories in the now sand filled pool
Man, it's trippy, when you said 20 years ago it reminded me of my first time at Disney, it was in 2000 at the tail end of this place. I remember going to the pools with those dual slides, Slippery Slide Falls. I remember my cousins and I loved that water park. We spent an afternoon there. I remember it being a lot of fun. So strange to think it's in such an abandoned state now.
We sailed past river country and discovery island last week in a boat, it's cool to see what you saw from inside!
the building are probably cheaper and easier to remove... the slides and attractions probably have deeper roots to them and more heavy materials to clean up.
Hi Jake, can confirm those trees at about 1:50 are now fenced off but with a black steel, link fence up to waist height no wood. I think the entrance, ticket house is used for storage - fishing rods! Saw cast members use it. Water dispensers gone again. Otherwise no change up to today.
Awesome River Country Video! Love the editing and the insight! Keep up the good work!
+EagleRyan14 Thank you!
Holy fuck. After seeing the two slides I've unearthed a memory hidden for 21 years....I remembered April 1999 when 10 year old me plunged deep into the water and struggled to get to the surface. This park felt a bit dated and old by the time I went but it is cool to see it again
it's so sad to see it in such a decayed state, I really enjoyed going to River Country when I was a kid.
dang it looks so different from last year
I loved River Country. Still have a photo from the parking lot in 1978
LOVE the glitchy/corrupted editing on this.
This is my first viewing of an Explore video by you guys; I had only seen the Abandoned series prior. This was excellent, and I loved the editing! The old promotional footage made it feel a little eerie to me. I guess because it's such a fun, happy place in the commercial, and now it's abandoned and creepy. Anyway, keep up the good work! 👍🏻
River Country. It's both a hoot *and* a holler.
Thanks for the new video of River Country. I didn't realise it was that close to Fort Wilderness!!
When we were there last week, there were cast members docked at River Country (the part visible from the Magic Kingdom boats.) I have no idea if that really means something though, but it was still pretty cool.
I've stayed up till 3 four times this week binging your channel. I love your channel!
Hey just wanted to let you know that yours is by far the best River Country video we've seen. No one else shows the entrance, fence, etc. Thank you so much! You earned a subscriber!
Thank you!
OMG U REPLIED
its actually pretty well kept considering its been there for so long. i really hope they end up revamping it so its open again
How come they left it to decay, but they go back to fill in the pool, put up fence, fix the water fountains and stuff like that?
The area where he was is still used. So maintaining the area directly behind the fencing is most likely for safety reasons. Bee hives in buildings, mosquito's in standing water, that kind of stuff.
i always remember this water slide where you freefall half way down and i think the one at the beginning is the one im thinking of
I have pictures of myself there with my family in the early 80's. My dad used to work for disney and we got to go to Walt Disney world for a week while my dad was a Project manager for the Epcot project
Obryant Electric sweet
Crazy thinking back 20+ years ago that I was there swimming in that park. I think the year was 1992. Infant with some quick research I went to that park within a week of Hurricane Andrew making landfall down in Homestead. Infact the day Andrew hit we should of been on the Big Red Boat. Thankfully we get a raincheck and went later that year.
The editing for the flashback photos and video, especially at the end, was a nice addition.
Currently staying at fort wilderness. River country has been fully demolished with most the old buildings. The fence has been pushed forward all the way up to pioneer hall
The beginning reminds me of the Nuka world ad from fallout
So it looks like Disney is ensuring that the structures that are collapsing on them selves are being removed. Hopefully they will use the area in the future for another attraction. It may take several more years though.
I've really enjoyed all your series, especially the Abandoned ones. Keep up the good work
Disney is maintaining some of the land for a potential second Disney Vacation Resorts. They were originally going to build one here and instead built it by the monorail in Orlando. However, that resort has exceeded expectations and now Disney has put back into concept a second Disney Vacation Resort on this island. So they maintain part of it to give them a foothold to build another vacation resort if they decide to spend the money and do it. Hope that helps Jake.
Excellent video! I was there in 1987 and returned to WDW in 2011 only to learn of RC's fate. It's a shame.
Now i have that friggin jingle stuck in my head
PLEASE DO AN EPISODE OF ABANDONED ABOUT THE BAKER HOTEL IN MINERAL WELLS, TEXAS!.........please. 😘😜
Oh no, I meant like the episodes where he talks about abandoned places... not him actually going and exploring. 😊
Texas fam where u at??!!
What's it about?
the proper people did a video of it but i would love that
thanks for following up on River country. I am a FL native and always wanted to go.
I need to correct you and I'm sure a few dis-nerds have already:
Mickey's Backyard BBQ and the Hoop-Dee-Doo Review are two separate dinner shows.
back to River country: I am sad to see this icon fade, I'm even more sadden by the amount of trash I have had to clean up around that area. ;_;
I've never clicked on a video so fast. Thanks for making this video Jake!
Nice job Jake. Those slides were so much fun back in my youth (1978ish). Talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen these days.
Given how many urban explorers take the risk to explore the abandoned River Country, I think the revival of an attraction like Myst Island, but with an abandoned themepark setting, would make a great attraction.
Seriously one of your best explore videos 👀 haha. Another friend reminder that you are a class A UA-camr 💋❤️ ☺️
Hey Jake, just wanted to say, first off, that I love how your videos are put together. The effort and editing is absolutely perfect in all of your videos, especially abandoned (which is my personal favorite series of yours). I also feel like you would like to look into the St. Louis Mills Mall, it was a massive high quality mall that now includes little to no major stores. It used to have an indoor NASCAR themed theme park, and and ice skating rink, but now is a place that you cannot spend much time at. I used to visit as a child a lot and I've seen it fall into practical abandonment and I would love it if you looked into a video on it. Thanks, keep up the good work Jake ;)
Jake always enjoy your vids. Your editing and attention to detail are second to none. Thank you for making such enjoyable content.