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After months and even years of speculation, Disney has announced that a brand new resort is indeed being built where River Country water park once stood.

The new resort will be a Disney Vacation Club (DVC) property which will be built on land between Disney’s Wilderness Lodge Resort and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground on Bay Lake.

With this new nature-themed resort, there will be more than 900 hotel rooms to go along with DVC villas.

“Walt Disney World is in the midst of our most significant expansion in the last two decades and the combined 1,700 new hotel rooms and proposed Disney Vacation Club villas we are building at four different resorts will create thousands of new construction and permanent jobs and will drive economic opportunity and incremental revenue for Central Florida,” said George A. Kalogridis, president of Walt Disney World Resort. “We continue to add new attractions, new lands — and these beautiful accommodations will be right in the heart of all that magic.”

The new resort has not yet received a name but it will indeed be the 16th Disney Vacation Club property and build on the flexibility and value of a DVC membership.

“This resort experience will be a celebration of Walt Disney’s lifelong love and respect for nature, with some fun and even surprising accommodation types that families will find irresistible,” said Terri Schultz, senior vice president and general manager of Disney Vacation Club. “It will give our members and guests yet another opportunity to stay in close proximity to all the newest attractions and experiences in our theme parks, and with the flexibility, value and world-class service families expect from Disney.”

As of now, there is no exact opening date for the new resort, but it will open in 2022.

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