After Magic Kingdom Location Blocked Off at Disney World, Updates Surface

After Magic Kingdom Location Blocked Off at Disney World, Updates Surface

Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World Resort is undergoing its largest transformation and expansion in its 54-year history. Credit: Inside the Magic Over the last few months, Disney has drained and cleaned the Rivers of America at Magic Kingdom, dismantling long-held riverboat channels and excavating silt in the riverbed surrounding Tom Sawyer Island. Scenes of heavy machinery and scaffolding have begun to dominate what was once a serene water…

Disney Closes Magic Kingdom Location, Aerial View Reveals What Is Going On : Disney Fanatic

For more than half a century, Magic Kingdom Park has represented the heart of Walt Disney World Resort. Now, the park is preparing for a transformation unlike anything in its 54-year history—a sweeping expansion that will bring an all-new land, Piston Peak National Park, to life. Credit: Disney To make way for this new chapter, the familiar waterways of the Rivers of America have been drained and reshaped. Construction crews have removed silt an…