The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge

Carolwood Pacific Railroad Room

The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge offers many secluded nooks and quiet sitting rooms where you can relax or gather the family together for a game of checkers or chess.
One of these rooms is designed as a romanticized replica of a hotel built for the railroad workers who constructed the first Transcontinental Railroad. This room is dedicated to Walt Disney's passion for trains, which began when he was a teenager and held a summer job selling newspapers and refreshments to customers on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.
Walt Disney loved trains so much, he built a one-eighth scale railroad on 2,615 feet of track in his backyard on Carolwood Drive in Holmby Hills, CA; he named it the Carolwood Pacific Railroad. The actual cattle car and gondola from Walt's backyard railroad, and a miniature model of the No. 173 engine are on display in the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Room.
Walt Disney's one-eighth scale backyard railroad became the inspiration for the much larger trains in the Disney Parks—specifically the Lilly Belle parlor car in Disneyland Resort.
The train theme in the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Room extends to the fireplace—where a whimsical steam engine puffing smoke while chugging up hill is sculpted into the fireplace's iron grill.

Chip'n Dale's Campfire Sing-a-long

Gather 'round the campfire at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort with your nutty pals for songs and fun, then watch a classic Disney movie under the stars.

Cub's Den - Kids' Play Space

Cub's Den, which serves The Villas at Disney's Wildreness Lodge, offers parents the chance to treat children ages 4 to 12 to an evening of supervised activities in an environment created just for them—while the parents treat themselves to a night out.

At this delightfully themed play space, children are invited to create western arts and crafts, play videogames, enjoy dinner and snacks, watch Disney movies and interact with other kids their age.

The Cub's Den is located outside the main lobby near Wilderness Lodge Mercantile, is open daily from 4:30 p.m. to midnight.

Advance reservations are suggested. To make a reservation for The Cub's Den, please contact (407) WDW-DINE or (407) 939-3463 up to 90 days in advance. Guests under age 18 must have parent or guardian permission to call.

Same-day reservations are sometimes available. Contact The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge front desk or the Concierge during your visit.

Fire Rock Geyser

Fire Rock Geyser at Disney's Wilderness Lodge is located between the Silver Creek Springs pool and Bay Lake. Fashioned after Yellowstone National Park's famous Old Faithful geyser, Fire Rock Geyser shoots a water plume 120-feet in the air every hour on the hour from early morning to 10:00 p.m.

Floor to Ceiling Details

While looking up towards the ceiling in the lobby at Disney's Wilderness Lodge, notice 4 massive teepee-shaped chandeliers suspended from solid Lodgepole Pine beams. Authentic rawhide, hand painted with geometric designs, stretches over the lights' structural framework. Each teepee chandelier, with its bronze and steel ring of silhouetted buffaloes and riders on horseback, weighs 600 pounds.
Exquisite details in Disney's Wilderness Lodge lobby can be seen beneath your shoes, too. The floor's inlaid pattern is made from 4 different types of wood: Brazilian Cherry, White Oak, Bird's-Eye Maple, and Burl Walnut. The floor's central design depicts the symbol of unity among wildlife, man, the cosmos and the 4 seasons.
Artifacts from a variety of Native American tribes, including the Cheyenne, Crow, Sioux and Blackfoot, have been collected and re-created, and are displayed throughout Disney's Wilderness Lodge. Authentic reproductions of headdresses, painted robes and drums, as well as work from artists noted for their reverence for nature, can be seen in the lobby's secluded alcoves and throughout the Resort's restaurants and sitting rooms.

Grand Fireplace

The most impressive of Disney's Wilderness Lodge's fireplaces is in the Resort's lobby. The mammoth 3-sided fireplace—with rockwork layers in hues of green, magenta, buff, black, brown and more than 95 other colors—represents the nearly 2 billion years of the Earth's history that are exposed in the rock strata of the great chasm known as the Grand Canyon.
At 82 feet tall, the stone fireplace in Disney's Wilderness Lodge lobby is as high as Chickapin Hill in the Splash Mountain attraction in Magic Kingdom theme park.
Relax in one of the lobby's overstuffed leather armchairs for a closer look at the grand fireplace—you may notice fossilized plants and animals from prehistoric times.

The Great Outdoors at Disney's Wilderness Lodge

Lounge in one of the wooden rocking chairs on the back area of the lobby at Disney's Wilderness Lodge and lose yourself in the serene scene of mighty pines and delicate flowers. Water from a bubbling springs flows from inside the lobby. Follow it as it winds outside to the Silver Creek Springs.

Junipers, wildflowers and natural grasses line meandering pathways. Stroll around Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort grounds and listen to the chirping of crickets beneath bridges. The Overlook Point offers views of the Silver Creek waterfall—a spectacular sight when lit at night.

Lodgepole Pine Lobby

Step inside the 7-story lobby, the centerpiece of Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort, and be awed by 2 towering totems. Each reaching 55-feet tall, the hand-carved poles—one topped with a raven, the other an eagle—draw your eye up the 4 levels of corridors that surround the lobby and provide access to sitting nooks, terraces and nearly 730 Guest rooms. The various animals—from whales to raccoons to eagles—carved into these totems depict Native American myths and legends.

A 10-foot totem near the Resort's Wilderness Lodge Mercantile features a few more famous animals. Disney Character Humphrey Bear stands at the base and supports Donald Duck; Goofy's perched on Donald's shoulders. Sitting above Goofy and capping the totem pole is a ruggedly-dressed Mickey Mouse.

Pools

The Silver Creek Springs pool has a water slide and a hot tub. The Resort's second pool, Hidden Springs, also features a hot tub. Each pool has a lounge and bar. Open seasonally, the Trout Pass pool bar and Trout Pass Snacks serve quick snacks or small meals, as well as specialty drinks and coffees.

Swimming in Silver Creek Springs, the feature pool at The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge, is like swimming in a small forest. Silver Creek Springs pool is open from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 midnight, with Disney-trained lifeguards on duty from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Inside The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge lobby, a spring bubbles over stones. Follow the water as it flows under a lobby's window wall, widens and becomes a creek in the Resort's upper courtyard. This quiet Silver Creek transforms again into a sparkling 15-foot waterfall, which empties into the boulder and tree-lined pool called Silver Creek Springs.

Video Rentals

Stop by Wilderness Lodge Mercantile to rent a movie or two.