Disney's Forgotten Waterpark - Abandoned River Country

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  • We explore the remains of Disneys River Country. Amazing ruins of the modern world.
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  • @DarkExploration
    @DarkExploration  Před 7 lety +379

    If you enjoyed the video let me know by giving it a thumbs up! And if it helps you keep up to date with my videos, hit the bell button next to my name and get a notification when i upload my next adventure, Thank for watching !!

    • @sisforscrap7647
      @sisforscrap7647 Před 7 lety +4

      Dark Exploration, you're sexah. (No homo)

    • @uknowwho4235
      @uknowwho4235 Před 7 lety +2

      Dark Exploration I just came across this and oddly enough I'm at Disney World right now. Was this really uploaded on the 4th?

    • @leemayne9787
      @leemayne9787 Před 7 lety

      Dark Exp

    • @alliehearst9111
      @alliehearst9111 Před 7 lety +4

      Dark Exploration Films you are fucking amazing.

    • @julipk1234
      @julipk1234 Před 7 lety +9

      Disney employees monitor the park for trespassers, who risk up to lifetime bans if caught. Many CZcamsrs have been caught taping videos of themselves trespassing in River Country for entertainment purposes.[6] In the meantime, River Country is fenced off from the nearby Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground, and is no longer in operable condition.

  • @twoblacklabs904
    @twoblacklabs904 Před 7 lety +910

    I lifeguarded at River Country from Spring 1984 until Fall of 1986. It was a very cool water park with very good management who let us have a 30 minute break after 3, 30 minute guard rotations. (Watch guests for an hour and a half, take a 30 min. lunch or swim break!) They also let us keep the pocket change that would fall out of kids' swimsuit pockets, and congregate at the bottom of the slides...some days I'd walk outta there with $20 in quarters...
    Anyway, the slides were clean and fast, the Brazilian women's bathing suits were tiny, and the job was just good mindless fun. We got paid to sit in the sun and watch people have a great time. I have so many good memories of that place, and so many funny stories to tell of my short time working there, but mainly, I just miss River Country...

    • @burntlettuce6309
      @burntlettuce6309 Před 7 lety +39

      Salvatore DiSanto man, now I wish I was born in the 70's

    • @independentquebec3500
      @independentquebec3500 Před 5 lety +18

      what a honor

    • @karadan100
      @karadan100 Před 5 lety +64

      I went there with my parents when I was 13 and I saw my very first real-life vagina when a lady came off a slide with her bikini bottoms twisted about.

    • @pene9101
      @pene9101 Před 5 lety +3

      Two Black Labs, Neat story :)

    • @Noticccashonly
      @Noticccashonly Před 5 lety +1

      Two Black Labs none of that ever happened

  • @jason6729
    @jason6729 Před 7 lety +867

    Just think that 15 years after humans vanish from the earth, this is what our ruins would look like.

    • @DarkExploration
      @DarkExploration  Před 7 lety +98

      +Jason You should watch the history channels episode, "Life after people". The full documentary is on CZcams

    • @jason6729
      @jason6729 Před 7 lety +28

      Cool! Thanks for introducing me to this!

    • @TyElliott7
      @TyElliott7 Před 7 lety +5

      Wait so yOur saying the world will end and everyone will be dead in 15 years
      Or is this a joke pls tell me

    • @jason6729
      @jason6729 Před 7 lety +29

      I'm just saying that eventually when humans die out (defiantly not in our lifetimes), this is what the world will look like 15 years after humans die. We are almost defiantly not dying out in 15 years so don't worry.

    • @juggernug7345
      @juggernug7345 Před 7 lety +34

      Jason its amazing how fast nature reclaims its surroundings

  • @illioptopede
    @illioptopede Před 4 lety +75

    its crazy how even through all the decay and overgrowth, you can still catch glimpses of disney magic. incredible!

  • @rabbitraisin
    @rabbitraisin Před 7 lety +533

    I like how you put in little clips of how it was before. often in these kinds of videos I don't know what I'm looking at, so seeing the "before" adds that touch of connection to history :) Also what was that flute like sound that kept going off?

    • @sophiagatto2427
      @sophiagatto2427 Před 7 lety +29

      кролика родзинка I believe that is the Ferry's horn, since it crosses the lake every 10 minutes or so. :)

    • @rabbitraisin
      @rabbitraisin Před 7 lety +3

      +Tal Gat to oh thank you! :)

    • @melindathomas21
      @melindathomas21 Před 3 lety +3

      I totally agree,, him showing it as it use to, and now.. HE'S A GREAT EXPLORE,,

    • @Corey_Xavier
      @Corey_Xavier Před 2 lety +4

      It’s the boats that take you from the fort wilderness area to magic kingdom Etc.

  • @kthompson9301
    @kthompson9301 Před 7 lety +185

    i got to go to river country back in 96/97 when i was about 10 or 11 as i grew up about 45 minutes away. it was my favourite disney waterpark because it was so natural. sad to see it abandaned

    • @SS-lv6to
      @SS-lv6to Před 6 lety +8

      K Thompson Sorry, but I would of closed it. Did you know that there was a brain eating amoeba there?

    • @miltay_
      @miltay_ Před 6 lety +1

      Sabrina XlXlX all water was filtered. Even open lakes you could swim in were filtered

    • @dislikebutton4239
      @dislikebutton4239 Před 6 lety +10

      Sly Sab that shit was rare tho cause only 1 kid died from that

    • @johnlee643
      @johnlee643 Před 5 lety

      I found out that there going to tear it down😥

    • @harpertesterman3776
      @harpertesterman3776 Před 5 lety

      K Thompson It closed because of brain eating ameba in Florida lakes

  • @evellynsilva5671
    @evellynsilva5671 Před 4 lety +597

    Quem mais veio pela Jaque ? 🇧🇷🇧🇷
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    Kkkk primeira vez que ganho esse tanto de curtida em um comentário.

  • @OhNyaNya
    @OhNyaNya Před 7 lety +634

    Hiya! Long comment incoming! :)
    The waterpark didn't close for a brain eating virus, or cause of gators or anything like that.
    Disney's Typhoon Lagoon opened in 1989 (muuch larger than River Country) and Blizzard Beach in 1995. Most visitors would go to those waterparks instead of River Country, which was a fraction of the size those other two parks are.
    River Country closed for the season in November 2001. The same year as 9/11. Because of the this, people were traveling a whole lot less so River Country was getting very little foot traffic. Since there was so little traffic, Disney didn't open the park back up for its following season in April 2002. Disney said that if there is enough demand, the park would reopen. As we now see, there wasn't enough demand for it.
    Few more things to note!
    In River Country, you didn't swim directly in the lake water, rather, the park pulled water from the lake, but ran the water through many big blue silo looking containers that filtered the water that would then push into the main parks pool. The water was also walled away from the actual lake, so the filtered water never touched the lake water. Hence why i personally think the whole brain eating virus was more of a rumor than a fact. Unless there is an actual news report that it did indeed happen. Hey, I swam in that filtered lake water when i was around 4 and I'm okie dokie :o!
    And another note.. I've gone to Fort Wilderness many times in the past and have never seen anything that looked like a gator. Just recently, Disney fenced off the entire lake and canal areas because of that child who got eaten by a gator in a completely different location.
    Hope my comment was helpful! If i'm wrong about a piece of info let me know! I hold Fort Wilderness and River Country dear to my heart, so I'm always eager to learn about it!
    P.S
    People. If your going to swim, or let your kid swim in a lake. Please read any and all signs to make sure there are no gator warnings. You know what? Just don't swim in one to begin with! Be safe!

    • @lisaess
      @lisaess Před 7 lety +5

      OhNyaNya thanks for that

    • @OhNyaNya
      @OhNyaNya Před 7 lety +19

      purple monster interesting. If it was really just 1 child who actually got the virus, then i'm going to assume they swam directly in the lake water, then into River Country. I know for a fact some people would take a dip in that lake, i've seen it lol. Just it is weird to me for only 1 case to have happened there and not multiple seeing how many people went through there.
      Ahh, yeah, law regulation sounds more like the likely culprit l (as well as little coot traffic) than the 1 virus case. Thanks!

    • @imagner7512
      @imagner7512 Před 7 lety +12

      OhNyaNya totally agree with you we were just at Disney's Fort wilderness when this happened and I don't really think it was a Brain eating amoeba but yes they did fence off every area that could possibly have a gator in it but I think that it's kind of rubbish they should've known hey there's gators in this lake it's Florida and some people say that there was a sign right there that said please no swimming gators near but every time that we are going on the boat from the fort wilderness Lodge to the campground or if we're going to the contemporary on my boat we will see the abandoned waterpark and I think it's really cool and actually one of the slides from River country was used at Disney's Fort wilderness pool the big one and I think it even since we were country I'm not sure but I was just there I had an amazing Time and I love Disney's Fort wilderness and I'm sad to hear that a child was hurt by getter but I'm glad that Disney took charge defense off the Lakes

    • @imagner7512
      @imagner7512 Před 7 lety +1

      OhNyaNya oh and also we talk to one of the guy that drives the boat to the Fort wilderness Lodge in the contemporary and he said they're actually not gonna do anything with the park anymore except for leave it because it would be way too expensive anyways so That was a cool fact

    • @OhNyaNya
      @OhNyaNya Před 7 lety +3

      I'm a Gøner yes! I'm dying to go back again myself! I'm due a trip there, been a little too long since my last trip lol want to get my hands on a fort wilderness pin.
      Fun tidbit: the water tower in that spiral slide they put at the main pool is actually the same water tower that used to be behind the ticket gate to fort wilderness (which you can still see when you walk towards the Mickey's backyard bbq pavilion). Least something was salvaged over 20 years later lol..
      I don't even know who would want to even swim in a lake o _o so many germs, micro organisms and junk living in that water. Unless its filtered and cleaned up like who it was inside River Country :P!
      Also, i heard the chuck wagon where you'd buy marshmallows for the sing along camp and movie area got replaced with an RV. Least the RV looks old and dated, like its from the 80s or something lol.

  • @Lilotter7
    @Lilotter7 Před 7 lety +441

    Let us know when the Disney ban notice comes in.

    • @jacyrogers5765
      @jacyrogers5765 Před 6 lety +16

      lopack1990 wow scary Disney ban notice!!

    • @mclark2288
      @mclark2288 Před 6 lety +37

      Disney has banned other people who went inside River Country. You can search it on youtube

    • @czwrefsteven
      @czwrefsteven Před 6 lety +14

      So ban away!!! Hell they’re not the only fun park people can go to!!!! I’ve gone to Disney World twice in my lifetime so I’ve seen what I need to see there. Plus if I’m lucky & live a FULL life I probably got another 30 years to live anyhow. Makes no difference to me now. I got other things on my bucket list to do than worry about some company’s “ban for life” to worry about just cause they can’t hire enough security to cover the grounds!! The ones whose wrist should be slapped 👋 is the security staff they have now for not doing their job right! Not the person that snuck behind the scenes.🙄🙄🙄🙄

    • @bigh7777
      @bigh7777 Před 5 lety +21

      A ban from Disney.. wow. That would save everyone a shitload of money.

    • @cwchris_
      @cwchris_ Před 4 lety +16

      Tbh Disney is ass. No matter what day you go you’re bombarded by tourists and it’s way too expensive

  • @SirYensid
    @SirYensid Před 7 lety +163

    The pool area was filled with sand to reduce the mosquitoes.

  • @karinaaporta
    @karinaaporta Před 4 lety +284

    Vim pela Jaqueline Guerreiro ❤️
    Cadê os br ???

  • @daianemelo4627
    @daianemelo4627 Před 4 lety +277

    Quem veio pela Jacque ?

  • @yasminkamile2040
    @yasminkamile2040 Před 4 lety +292

    Vim pela Jaqueline kkkkk

  • @emm_gee1294
    @emm_gee1294 Před 7 lety +164

    Am I the only one thinking this place would make a great natural setting for a horror movie, course the whole time he was walking through I'm looking at that black water and waiting for Jason to pop out and slice a mofo. Then walking on the old wooden plankways I'm like I hope they don't fall through and gators come rushing in. But honestly I never knew this place existed. So it was cool to see. I see alot of mixed thoughts on why the parked closed ranging from myth to what seems like fact but it just adds to my horror movie idea.

    • @machoman7765
      @machoman7765 Před 5 lety +2

      It would

    • @charley7437
      @charley7437 Před 4 lety +4

      Lmao I was just thinking that but a paranormal one based on the ghosts of the kids.

    • @emm_gee1294
      @emm_gee1294 Před 4 lety +2

      @@charley7437 now thats an intresting thought. And would be plausible given the purpose of the park.

    • @deftrascal1626
      @deftrascal1626 Před 3 lety

      this and the old 20000 leagues under the sea remains makes me think that a park that's specifically horror centric with old dilapidated animatronics and architecture would make for an amazing park

  • @scottstafford7715
    @scottstafford7715 Před 7 lety +68

    Dude, that was so cool. and so authentic. I was 6 when that place opened and it provided a naturalistic counter balance to the fake unrealistic world of Disney. The place was like a 70's Mountain Dew commercial which basically showed kids in the country going off a rope swing into a river or creek. Good cheap organic fun for people of the South. They did good to only have 3 deaths. Every good swimming hole, Rope swing, and rock quarry that I have ever known, amassed at least a death every 2 years. No kills no thrills. Sounds morbid but safety has come a long way in the last century. And for that, we must thank the powers that be. Now lets go climb a fence and sneak into a rock quarry!

    • @shonamagouyrk9575
      @shonamagouyrk9575 Před 6 lety +5

      Scott Stafford u right Scott, I'm from Alabama and that something I love to do, in fact, u talk like u from here too lol..these kids nowadays,,shit can't get them outside or off a tablet..they don't know what fun is

  • @simonevaleria2246
    @simonevaleria2246 Před 4 lety +190

    Vim pela Jaque❤

  • @Retnick
    @Retnick Před 6 lety +20

    The sound of the feet crunching on the grass and dirt is so satisfying

  • @bootifulbootiful4474
    @bootifulbootiful4474 Před 6 lety +44

    I love how u put the old footage of the waterpark in this vid

  • @user-mt9jx5ws7o
    @user-mt9jx5ws7o Před 5 lety +68

    When he walks on the ground
    it sounds like *asmr*

    • @L00k4tM3L0lz
      @L00k4tM3L0lz Před 4 lety +1

      🧣🎒🦊🍊🍋🍌🍀🌿🧊🥏🌂💜

    • @floo1465
      @floo1465 Před 3 lety

      go outside

  • @thewinningwalkers4812
    @thewinningwalkers4812 Před rokem +6

    My parents took my brother and I there just a couple years before it closed. I was only 9, so memories are a little vague, but I do remember getting a huge splinter in my foot while walking along the wooden platforms. It took about an hour for the lady in the medical area to pluck it all out, it was that firmly wedged in. 😅 It's crazy to see it now, overgrown and abandoned.

  • @wakaywa
    @wakaywa Před 7 lety +148

    You covered this amazingly. One of your best! Thank you for all the work that you put into making your videos.

    • @DarkExploration
      @DarkExploration  Před 7 lety +8

      W Kay Thanks for the kind words. Always going to be putting out content! especially this summer

    • @cleolamoore6596
      @cleolamoore6596 Před 7 lety

      Dark Exploration Films

  • @youtubeblows
    @youtubeblows Před 7 lety +66

    This video is done really well. The cuts, the fading, the everything. Well done, I love it!

  • @radassaauer8866
    @radassaauer8866 Před 4 lety +87

    Vim pela Jaque Guerreiro 🇧🇷

  • @larissaqueiroz3357
    @larissaqueiroz3357 Před 4 lety +82

    who came for jaque?? 🇧🇷

    • @CamilaMandaji
      @CamilaMandaji Před 3 lety +8

      @Kamila Loera
      lol, a brazilian youtuber named Jaqueline Guerreiro made a video talking about Disney's abandoned parks. She quoted this video (among others) so the Brazilians who watch it came to see it. They say "quem veio pela jaque?" (who came for jaque) to see who else came for her too :) I hope I helped and sorry for the big text lfmao

  • @PollyNery
    @PollyNery Před 4 lety +61

    Vim pela semana misteriosa 👀

  • @Lekooliveira_
    @Lekooliveira_ Před 4 lety +70

    Quem chegou aqui pele Jac guerreiro deixa o LIKEEEEEE

  • @alejandre200
    @alejandre200 Před 7 lety +259

    Am I the only one who thinks the branches on the ground break sounds cool? 🤔

  • @luh_barbieofc
    @luh_barbieofc Před 4 lety +97

    Vim pela Jaqueline! Esses vídeos antigos com essas músicas temas do parque, são bizarros kk

  • @XParisxInxFlamesX
    @XParisxInxFlamesX Před 7 lety +303

    Gotta give you credit to the fact that you have the best vlog about this park. Everybody else is either a shitty camera man, or they have a pos camera. Thanks.

    • @DarkExploration
      @DarkExploration  Před 7 lety +15

      +BrookLynn thanks so much !

    • @leslie2722
      @leslie2722 Před 5 lety +10

      The way it's edited too with the flashbacks of the park back then , that was cool

    • @averys435
      @averys435 Před 5 lety +2

      Yeah but its not people died from downing and 1 from the brain eating thing
      Its 1 person downed and 4 died from the brain eating cells
      So he doesn’t have his facts that correct but yeah hes one of the better bloggers

    • @kaliuchissss
      @kaliuchissss Před 3 lety +3

      @@averys435 the park didn’t shut down because of the brain eating thing
      it closed because it has better water parks

  • @melissamilkquakez4932
    @melissamilkquakez4932 Před 4 lety +12

    I went there back in 1994 I think it was, i was 8, and i remember those slides that dropped off into the pool like perfectly! I went on those slides over and over. Its crazy to see it all abandoned. Too bad now this place is completely demolished ☹

  • @robertsmithsballsack3639
    @robertsmithsballsack3639 Před 6 lety +15

    I love how you do shots of what it used to look like it really makes the video

  • @ashez2ashes
    @ashez2ashes Před 6 lety +1

    This was still open when I went as a teenager in the late nineties... man I'm old.

  • @jwc10108
    @jwc10108 Před 7 lety +6

    wow... I was a lifeguard here back in 99 to 2001!! This is great to see, had a blast there!!

  • @Kathleennebel
    @Kathleennebel Před 4 lety +10

    Just amazing to me that 19 years has gone by and how nature has taken it over.. great upload 👍🏻

  • @Greg-qh7sq
    @Greg-qh7sq Před 3 lety +6

    The whistle noises you hear every so often, I thought were sound effects, those are actually the boats that go from Fort Wilderness, the Wilderness Lodge, the Grand Floridian, the Polynesian, and Magic Kingdom, whenever they are docking or leaving the dock, they blow the horn. So that’s kinda cool, knowing how close River Country is to the public and the parks. If you go to maps, while being on the boat you can look directlyat river country and be a distance of like 200 feet from the main “pool”. It’s also maybe 200-250 feet away from The Wilderness Lodge.

  • @dennissmith5807
    @dennissmith5807 Před 7 lety +5

    I remember going there in the late 70's. Great times.

  • @pushhhya8711
    @pushhhya8711 Před 6 lety +11

    this video creeps me out so much like the flattened floaty just sitting in that dark ass water made my skin crawl

  • @thestoryfactory8429
    @thestoryfactory8429 Před 7 lety +218

    There's no real drama in the story of why River Country shut down. After 9/11, the tourist numbers dropped, so the park was closed temporarily to save money on staff, maintenance and electricity. Then Florida changed its laws about recreational facilities using natural water sources. Disney would have had to completely re-pipe the entire park, and it wasn't cost effective given the other two functional parks. It was never reopened.
    Also, the company tends to issue lifetime bans to anyone who posts these kinds of videos. They have people who scan CZcams specifically for them. (It's trespassing, as the park is shuttered and closed to the public.)

    • @peteo.5616
      @peteo.5616 Před 7 lety +6

      The Story Factory So?

    • @jacyrogers5765
      @jacyrogers5765 Před 6 lety +7

      The Story Factory no one gives a shit

    • @SS-lv6to
      @SS-lv6to Před 6 lety +10

      I would of closed it right after the amoeba incident.

    • @WillyWanker1974
      @WillyWanker1974 Před 6 lety +2

      Sorry Walt. Go back to your cryo-chamber.

    • @theclawless1225
      @theclawless1225 Před 5 lety +16

      The Story Factory Personally I wouldn’t care much if I got a lifetime ban. I’ve already been more times than I care for. I actually kind of resent Disney for being The place my parents always took us on vacation. All the time and money that went into taking us to Disney could’ve taken us around the world to see real castles and real history and new cultures. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking lmao.

  • @Mark-wr1hz
    @Mark-wr1hz Před 4 lety +15

    My father lifeguarded in the late 80s to early 90s. He saved a woman’s life. She almost drowned trying to find her wedding ring. He used to take me when I was really young. Before you arrive at River Country’s entrance, there was an area where you can pet and ride horses. I felt so much nostalgia seeing your footage of what it looks like now. Because for every place you filmed yourself walking...I walked there too -almost 20 years ago. That bridge rushed me back to 1996. Even as a kid, I always questioned the safety and cleanliness of the waters at River Country since it’s essentially a lake that you’re swimming in. It’s not contained and cleaned water like in Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach. The memories made at River Country were really beautiful.

  • @user-anonymous95
    @user-anonymous95 Před 2 lety +1

    The crunchy grass and leaves is extremely satisfying, but you have guts to walk in a barren place like that

  • @mateuslages9227
    @mateuslages9227 Před 4 lety +85

    Quinta misteriosa trouxe mais alguém aq ?

  • @yensed90
    @yensed90 Před 4 lety +2

    The @BrighSunFilms video brought me here. Incredible Footage!

  • @chayzinha2786
    @chayzinha2786 Před 4 lety +40

    Tô aqui por causa do vídeo da jaqueline guerreiro 🇧🇷🇧🇷❤️

  • @thabitacardial5084
    @thabitacardial5084 Před 4 lety +81

    vim pela Jaqueline Guerreiro 🇧🇷

  • @reshiramlodke3884
    @reshiramlodke3884 Před 5 lety +3

    Allthough those deaths did happen that is not why river country closed. In fact. The park stayed open for 13 years after the brain eating ameoba killed that young boy. The reason the attraction closed is because of the growing popularity of the two newer waterpark installations. The sheer distance caused the two other water parks to be much more popular. Disney saw record low visitation of river country and closed it down. It is set up for demolition now! They will replace it with a nature resort ^^

    • @2quick614
      @2quick614 Před 4 lety

      Also because of 9/11 and the drop of travellers during that time.

  • @Clara-ph7my
    @Clara-ph7my Před 5 lety +2

    Wow look at this. It's all still there, lost between natures green vines, snatching it from view. That is lovely to watch, Thank You and plus some really interesting comments below from fellow park workers!!

  • @janainapaiva5372
    @janainapaiva5372 Před 4 lety +123

    Alguém que veio pela Jaqueline Guerreiro??? ❤️❤️❤️

  • @kaswhite1380
    @kaswhite1380 Před 4 lety +1

    Back in the 1970 s my two kids and their Mom and I visited River Country many many times. And wow what a fun place it was.

  • @thaseokunnie4889
    @thaseokunnie4889 Před 4 lety +108

    Alguém pelo vídeo da Jaque?? 😂😂🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @marythomsen192
    @marythomsen192 Před 5 lety +2

    As a visitor from England this was our favourite water park, we visited many times,
    always looked forward to chip and Dale arriving with Goofy on horseback,
    Sometimes we would go across the River to Discovery Island,
    seeing the amazing exotic birds
    happy memory's thanks for taking us back😊

  • @therumtummugger420
    @therumtummugger420 Před 5 lety +13

    Disney: ‘Makes a fresh-water water park.’
    Some single celled creature: I’m about to end this man’s whole career

  • @MyAZFamily
    @MyAZFamily Před 5 lety +1

    I'm glad you got in to film it now that they are building a new hotel there.

  • @intprov97
    @intprov97 Před 6 lety +3

    You do a great job with incorporating what it use to look like, and what it looks like today. I have viewed many 'abandoned sites' offered by explorers such as yourself --- but by adding the past shots along with shots of today, puts you at a higher level for true representation of the 'then and now' look. Keep it up ! You do a great job!

  • @thrumblerumble5863
    @thrumblerumble5863 Před 7 lety +14

    Abandoned places are interesting

  • @gordongiobanni7543
    @gordongiobanni7543 Před 5 lety +6

    I love the way you let your girl be the tester for that bridge and just waited lmao. Props up to ole girl. 😂🤣🤣🤣😂

  • @laurieturner8861
    @laurieturner8861 Před 6 lety +1

    Thanks so much for sharing this!! I was a kid who actually went to river country...I am now 42 yrs old. I still have my ticket stubs and my mother has pictures of us playing in the river. I am fascinated with the abandoned river country yet sad but I think they r restoring it. Awesome.video!

  • @juliananicolaszaimgabriella85

    Vim pelo canal da Jaqueline Guerreiro.
    This is amazing

  • @Lily-ff2hd
    @Lily-ff2hd Před 6 lety +1

    They should get that place up and running again. I have annual water park passes so I would definitely go there for sure.

  • @margoalbani
    @margoalbani Před 4 lety +39

    Vim pela Jaqueline Guerreiro,mesmo não entendendo nada de inglês 😗✌🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @chocolatedonutthunder6041

    OMG. Sad and creepy. Gives me the chills becuz the people remind me of seeing ghosts.

  • @Mintz2520
    @Mintz2520 Před 4 lety +6

    Does anyone else other than me ever feel anemoia while watching videos like this?
    (for those who don't know what that means; Anemoia is nostalgia for a time you never lived in)
    Like I just feel a pang of sadness and something indescribable when I see things like this. Like I wish I could have experienced as it was back then. Like the weird longing to be there at the times in the old videos. What was it like? I want to be able to explore it when it was up and running back in the past.

    • @lilrossi6650
      @lilrossi6650 Před 3 lety

      Yea I feel like that to. My dad went here as a kid, maybe some telepathic shit but I fell like I was there with him

  • @billiejeandavey7945
    @billiejeandavey7945 Před 7 lety +290

    Wow how did you get on disney property without getting in trouble 🤔

    • @neeksbeek9920
      @neeksbeek9920 Před 7 lety +41

      Billie Jean davey i think the trouble will come later if he didnt get permission.. awesome videos tho

    • @imagner7512
      @imagner7512 Před 7 lety +56

      Billie Jean davey oh he did get in trouble we where actually at Disney's Fort wilderness when this was happening we were on a boat back to the campground when we saw about three police boats going over to the abandon park just as the video was posted

    • @OhNyaNya
      @OhNyaNya Před 7 lety +21

      I'm a Gøner if thats the case then i wouldn't be surprised if he, or whoever got caught if any, were perma banned for all of Disney in its entirety. Disney no play games!

    • @imagner7512
      @imagner7512 Před 7 lety +8

      420NMD nope it's not we where coming back on a note to our resort the Fort wilderness camp ground we were coming back from collecting are smashed pennies but you can think it's a lie if ya want

    • @greatnarwhal9106
      @greatnarwhal9106 Před 7 lety +9

      Not a smart idea if caught you will get a lifetime ban until you take down your video if you recorded anything

  • @liviacassia6010
    @liviacassia6010 Před 4 lety +32

    Vim pela Jaque ❤️

  • @mercedesbenzodiazapine
    @mercedesbenzodiazapine Před 4 lety +2

    I loved this place, my last time there was 1997 when I was 12. Even though I miss it, I love that it was never demolished because this exploration journey is just as cool. Thanks for sharing!

  • @lexiconthx1
    @lexiconthx1 Před 7 lety +8

    You do some great exploring video's. This is by far the best one of River Country. Really surprised that Disney doesn't have it better blocked off.

  • @johncee9631
    @johncee9631 Před 6 lety +1

    That place was dope when it was open I went as a kid in the 90s

  • @Erik0824
    @Erik0824 Před 4 lety +12

    It’s kind of weird watching this and seeing what it used to be

  • @brandon23471
    @brandon23471 Před 4 lety +2

    Man... seeing those slides around 5:12 brought back some memories. I remember being here when I was around 10 years old or so. Thanks for the video, mate.

  • @24TRAINMAN
    @24TRAINMAN Před 5 lety +6

    Best footage I've seen of this place in a long time, Thanks for the upload.

  • @catherine231amazing6
    @catherine231amazing6 Před 5 lety +3

    Thanks so much for putting the clips of what it looked like in the past!!

  • @noahgraglia8025
    @noahgraglia8025 Před 7 lety +40

    Nah I wouldn't do that
    Proceeds to walk across the bridge

  • @czwrefsteven
    @czwrefsteven Před 6 lety +2

    That was incredible footage!!!! The last time I went to this water park was 1978!!! Two years after it’s opening & the place was absolutely beautiful!! Can’t believe how nature has taken back that area!! Even if there was no alligators in that water now, there’s no way I would swim in it now. Water looks too far gone and this comes from a guy who has spent his whole life swimming in rivers, ponds, oceans, swimming holes, fallen out of a raft water water rafting (lol that was fun!!), etc. They really did a job filling in that pool with concrete!!!! Loved ❤️ the pool, but feared those two high slides on top of the giant man made rock going into it!! When I was little I had a serious fear of heights & I remember going up to the top of those slides and once you’re up there if you look closely you can’t see from up there how the outcome of you coming down them was going to be because you couldn’t see what was under you as you came off of them once you started down!!! You could’ve landed on top of someone below already in the pool & the lifeguards did nothing to prevent anyone from swimming underneath the sides (at least when I visited) or if the person that had gone before you had already swam out of the way!!! Changed my mind quick about attempting that. I always thought those things were a hazard.

  • @yankasarah7186
    @yankasarah7186 Před 4 lety +19

    Vim pela Jaque! 💓🇧🇷🇧🇷

  • @jeannesdroneventures6078
    @jeannesdroneventures6078 Před 7 lety +1

    Wow! Awesome video! I am from Long Island originally and went to River Country in 1979 when I was 15 years old! I absolutely loved it and remember so much about it! It amazes me that they could shut it down and just leave all that junk there. Thanks for sharing!

  • @janainamueller3492
    @janainamueller3492 Před 4 lety +40

    Vim pela Jaqueline Guerreiro 💖
    Brasil!

  • @Archaeopteryx128
    @Archaeopteryx128 Před 6 lety +1

    I appreciate your documentation of this piece of Disney history.
    More, I'm surprised Disney has allowed the place to be fallow this long.

  • @teryyy5052
    @teryyy5052 Před 3 lety +3

    OMFG I remembered visiting here back in the early 90s! Why did they abandon it? I visited typhoon lagoon n this place back then. They were pretty different with this one having salt water pools I recalled! More of a jungle rustic vibe.

  • @elmhaven
    @elmhaven Před 7 lety +2

    Sad seeing River Country looking like this. Some of my fondest Florida memories were made in that park. The slides over the pool were down right frightening, when looking from the top down! Hopefully, one day, Disney will revive this part of the theme park.

  • @werethevallones4734
    @werethevallones4734 Před 7 lety +3

    Really spooky situation you especially when you walked out on the plank over The Water full of alligator.

  • @PureVikingPowers
    @PureVikingPowers Před 6 lety +2

    Word on the streets are that Walt him self is haunting this place & that people go missing from this place are never found again :(

  • @semskguy
    @semskguy Před 7 lety +46

    Can you do a video for Jazzland in New Orleans, Louisiana? It's an abandoned Six Flags owned amusement park.

    • @knicholsch
      @knicholsch Před 7 lety +11

      Aidan Semski that one is filled with gators. And during certain times of the year has high security. But it's on my bucket list. 😍

    • @ziliamfarias9433
      @ziliamfarias9433 Před 5 lety

      Kkkk

  • @FamilyEscapades
    @FamilyEscapades Před 7 lety +1

    They also now have the beach area at Fort Wilderness fenced off.

  • @nikkolevball4eva
    @nikkolevball4eva Před 4 lety +8

    I'm a huge disney fan! This was really cool to watch and learn! Ive just recently became a subscriber of yours and I love your videos and what you do! Thanks for sharing!

  • @hunsadersrockinranch
    @hunsadersrockinranch Před 5 lety +1

    I use to go there in the Mid. 70"s. It was a blast! thanks for sharing.

  • @LoveAcrossAmerica
    @LoveAcrossAmerica Před 5 lety +1

    Wow, I went there when I was a child and the lazy river was the coolest!! So amazing to see what has happened to it over the decades.

  • @catmarilyn9
    @catmarilyn9 Před 7 lety +47

    I was holding my breath I though the bridge was going break with you on it

    • @quandaledingle6100
      @quandaledingle6100 Před 7 lety +3

      marilyn regan Same !

    • @twelve222
      @twelve222 Před 4 lety

      I,wasn’t because why would the video be longer then that if he fell

  • @yellow2653
    @yellow2653 Před 5 lety +1

    I wish I was born early enough to come here, lots of people seemed to really enjoy the water park.

  • @AmaNda...280
    @AmaNda...280 Před 4 lety +10

    Alguém da semana misteriosa?

  • @nielsenslady
    @nielsenslady Před 3 lety +1

    This place looks like it was so fun in its hay day. Florida gets way too hot in the summer and the only way to keep the water safe is treating it or keeping the temp controlled.

  • @rmannayr2129
    @rmannayr2129 Před 7 lety +15

    Man it still looks so ruined and abandoned.

  • @MrRaymage
    @MrRaymage Před 5 lety +1

    Very cool man. I love how you did the flashback scenes. 👍👍

  • @dgralto
    @dgralto Před 7 lety +72

    That was great I used to work there for 6 years as a lifeguard what a trip down memory lane. I would love to know how you got in? Any chance you could say?

    • @lisaess
      @lisaess Před 7 lety +18

      dgralto do you have any photos?

  • @Liberty309
    @Liberty309 Před 6 lety +1

    It's bizarre to see the commercial and then to see what it looks like now , WOW !!!

  • @Dara-yf8yj
    @Dara-yf8yj Před 4 lety +13

    Vim pela Jaque!

  • @kellonwheelz_66
    @kellonwheelz_66 Před 7 lety +1

    Great video! I'm also the type of person who loves to know the history behind old, long-standing, abandoned places and buildings. I'm surprised to see no spider webs, so somebody's definitely walking through there on a regular basis. Thanks so much for sharing!!

  • @nataliedanz767
    @nataliedanz767 Před 5 lety +11

    Why would they use fresh water? I mean, sure at first it seems like a good idea but they should have researched it before they made the decision.

  • @reimagine207
    @reimagine207 Před 5 lety +1

    In some ways it’s better than just big abandoned buildings with junk.....the critters must love it!

  • @cryingsobbing
    @cryingsobbing Před 5 lety +8

    kinda sad for some weird reason theyre finally getting rid of this.

  • @alanpadgett5868
    @alanpadgett5868 Před 7 lety +2

    I personally think the park looks much better now. An awesome nature walk.

  • @Stalkergames916
    @Stalkergames916 Před 5 lety +3

    My dad went here when he was young crazy stuff
    Also Disney is announcing that it will become a resort on that ground