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    Resort · Disney

    Walt Disney World Resort

    Walt Disney World is Disney's largest resort: four theme parks, two water parks, the Disney Springs shopping and dining district and more than 30 Disney-owned hotels on about 27,000 acres in Lake Buena Vista and Bay Lake, Florida, about 20 miles southwest of Orlando. Pick a park below for its rides, waits, hours and dining.

    The parks

    Theme parkMagic KingdomOpened October 1, 1971 · FL, USOpen the park →Theme parkEPCOTOpened October 1, 1982 · FL, USOpen the park →Theme parkDisney's Hollywood StudiosOpened May 1, 1989 · FL, USOpen the park →Theme parkDisney's Animal KingdomOpened April 22, 1998 · FL, USOpen the park →Water parkDisney's Typhoon LagoonWater park, opened June 1, 1989 · FL, USAOpen the park →Water parkDisney's Blizzard BeachWater park, opened April 1, 1995 · FL, USAOpen the park →

    History

    Walt Disney planned the resort to supplement Disneyland, and from April 1964 dummy corporations quietly bought 27,443 acres of land; he died in December 1966, five years before Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971. EPCOT followed in 1982, Disney-MGM Studios (renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2008) in 1989 and Disney's Animal Kingdom in 1998, the resort's largest theme park at 580 acres on opening day. Typhoon Lagoon opened in 1989 and Blizzard Beach in 1995. Disney Springs, the shopping and dining district, opened in 1975 as Lake Buena Vista Shopping Village and took its current name in 2015. Magic Kingdom is the most visited theme park in the world.

    At a glance

    Opened
    1971
    Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971
    Theme parks
    4
    Water parks
    2
    Size
    About 27,000 acres
    Disney-owned hotels
    31
    As of 2024, plus the Fort Wilderness campground
    Operator
    Disney Experiences

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    Facts on this page come from Wikipedia: Walt Disney World, Disney Springs and Disney's Animal Kingdom, read 4 November 2026. Live waits, hours and crowds are on each park's own page.

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