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After twenty-four years of sitting on the drawing boards, the Fort Wilderness resort hotel finally made its debut as Disney’s Wilderness Lodge. The early designs of this fort are strikingly similar to the current resort: a large, rustic fort with timber walls.
Disney’s Wilderness Lodge is themed after the national park lodges of the Northwest, such as Yosemite and Yellowstone, circa 1860-70. The spirit of the West is captured in many designs, paintings, and artifacts of Native American culture decorating the resort. Totem poles with carved deer, buffalo, and other animals rise majestically toward the seven-story ceiling in the lobby. Some of the tribes represented here are the Blackfoot, the Cheyenne, the Crow, and the Sioux. There are also many maps and paintings of Western explorers advancing into the wilderness.
Much of the material used to construct the lodge was shipped in from the West. Hundreds of lodgepole pines decorate the interior or are outside, supported by a foundation of granite flagstone. In the lobby, a bubbling pool flows out into the back promenade, where outside, it becomes a small river, meandering around a forest landscape. The river flows over rocky outcroppings and into the main swimming pool. Disney’s Wilderness Lodged in May 1994. A similar-type resort has already been built at Disneyland Paris called the Sequoia Lodge.
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