Splash Mountain

Welcome to the first day of Frontierland feature week! All week long the Mouse Beat blog will feature Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland. To start of the week I thought that we would talk about something I had not seen before in my previous trip to the Magic Kingdom…



No it is not Splash Mountain in general. I have seen it and ridden it many times. Of course like many my favorite part of this ride is the very end when we take the plunge into the Briar Patch! It is always one of the first things we ride when we get to the Magic Kingdom (and that is not because the Walt Disney Railroad lets you off right at it’s Fast Pass door step… well not entirely anyway). What I have not seen before in my previous trips to Magic Kingdom was this…



Above is Splash Mountain. Notice anything unusual about it? Yep that is Splash Mountain dry. I realize that rides are closed from time to time for maintenance and repairs but until last week (before Fay arrived) I did not know that Splash Mountain was on the list of rides that closed. It was only down for about an hour and I actually found it really interesting. If you stood at the bridge you could actually hear the workers inside and hear them testing the different logs and tracks. By the time we were done with the Country Bears it was back up and you could hear the screams of joy as people tumbled over that final waterfall.

For more pictures of Splash Mountain head on over to my flickr Splash Mountain set.

If you want to see more pictures of Frontierland, our feature this week you can head on over to the Frontierland Set and stay tuned all this week for more of Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland.