sleepydog25
Been here awhile
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2004
Hey, Wakey! Welcome! I couldn't agree with you more re: the trails at WL. When I first began staying there, I barely used the paved path because the sandy nature trail that paralleled the lake was a perfect place to run. Though it "ended" at a junction about 1/3 of a mile from Lodge with the advertised trail breaking right, you could still keep going along the lake on a less defined trail and follow it all the way to the CM parking lot for FW. Once construction began on the Copper Creek cabins, that trail was shut down permanently. So, I switched to hitting the paved trail up until March when they shut that down. I don't do treadmills, either, because they're tougher on knees, even strong ones like mine.This VWL path closure is a real bummer - the whole point of the place for us is that you can walk in wilderness (sort of) and not just walk around a car park- we already have that scenario at Animal Kingdom. It seems that Disney have very little regard for the walkers and runners amongst us, it seems the Cresent Lake and OKW/ SSR are now the only options. I cancelled my BRV stay for this reason alone.
Yes you can use treadmills, but myself and my wife struggled to get on them at AKV last year. We witnessed people literally running up and down the car park. Not for us.
I fear this path to Fort Wilderness will never be brought back and we will never stay there.
I will say that I think the paved path will re-open once Reflections is done, as I feel they'll want to link the three resorts via a walking path. However, I'm in total agreement that Disney cares little about preserving any sort of serenity at any resort anymore. Unoccupied space means wasted opportunity to--in Granny's words--monetize the situation. I'm sad you canceled your reservation but, frankly, I fully understand why you would. It might, might, be worthwhile to contact Disney and, ahem, lodge a complaint about why you canceled your reservation where you did. It won't help in the short term, but perhaps a steady stream of concerns might further the notion about connecting all the resorts with some sort of path.