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Disney's Blizzard Beach
One of two water parks in Walt Disney World Resort / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Disney's Blizzard Beach is a water theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida near Orlando. All water areas are heated to approximately 80 °F or 27 °C, with the exception of the melting snow in the ice cave of Cross Country Creek.
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Location | Walt Disney World Resort, Bay Lake, Florida, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 28.351804°N 81.575415°W / 28.351804; -81.575415 |
Status | Temporarily Closed |
Opened | April 1, 1995; 29 years ago (1995-04-01) |
Owner | Disney Experiences (The Walt Disney Company) |
Operated by | Walt Disney World |
Theme | "Melting" ski resort |
Operating season | Year-round with annual maintenance closure |
Website | Official website ![]() |
The park opened on April 1, 1995, as the third Walt Disney World water park.[1] In 2016, the park hosted approximately 2,091,000 guests, ranking it the third-most visited water park in the world, behind its sister park, Typhoon Lagoon.[2] Blizzard Beach is open year-round with an annual maintenance closure in the winter. During the Blizzard Beach closures, Typhoon Lagoon usually remains open.
Most major attractions at the park are found atop Mount Gushmore, an artificial hill with an elevation of 90 feet (27.4 m). Mount Gushmore is split into three colored slopes to aid guests navigating around the park: Green, Red, and Purple.
The park's winter theming was conceived by designer-Imagineer Marshall Monroe, who, at the time, was a Creative Executive and Principle Technical Staff at the Walt Disney Company. Innovative elements of the park include a beach chair-themed chair lift, complete with beach umbrellas, and pretend snow skis. The setting and atmosphere of the park blend together tropical landscaping with simulated melting snow. The central mountain is a unique as a large structure in the high water table Floridian woodland. The architecture brings together an aesthetic of alpine lodges with Caribbean colors and accents.
The water park, along with all the other Walt Disney World parks, closed in March 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Blizzard Beach, along with Typhoon Lagoon, remained closed while the four theme parks reopened from July 11–15, 2020.[3][4] Disney's Blizzard Beach reopened at Walt Disney World Resort on March 7, 2021,[5] after being closed for nearly a year.