Port Orleans Resort
Photo Tour
Photos by Brian Bennett
French Quarter | Riverside
Landing | Riverside
Mansions | Riverside
Bayou | Pools |
Restaurants
Since, for many years, this part of Port Orleans operated
as the "Dixie Landings Resort," Riverside has it's own check-in
area and central guest facilities. The theme here is still ante-bellum
South, but unlike the French Quarter, this area is themed to be reminiscent
of the bayou and plantation homes that were located along the rivers of
the deep South.
The approach to Riverside.
Here we are in the main building entry. The check-in
lobby itself, the room that is seen in the background, is where, according
to the resort's story, guests buy their tickets for a steamboat journey
down the mighty Sassagoula River to Port Orleans. This area also
houses, to our left and not visible in the photo, the resort's main store
(Fulton's General Store), the restaurants, and the Medicine Show Arcade.
Inside Riverside's entryway, looking
toward the check-in lobby.
It's hard to tell from the picture here, but above the columns
on the beam above, the main cities that are located down river from the
Landing are listed (including Cairo, St. Louis, and Port Orleans, of course.)
Riverside's check-in lobby, where
guests booking passage down river.
The Colonel's Cotton Mill is right here on the Sassagoula
River. The mill is also the location of Riverside's food court.
That waterwheel that you can barely see there, just to the left of the
building, provides the power to work the 'gin that separates the cotton
from the seeds. Apparently it's big business for the Colonel.
The Cotton Mill and the bridge from
the landing to Ol' Man Island.
Just outside of the cotton mill is the landing. Here
you can see the mill to the right and Boatwright's on the left, just behind
the landing itself.
Looking from the landing toward Boatwright's
and the Cotton Mill.
Looking the other way, we can see the check-in lobby and
the arcade.
This is one of Walt Disney World's best themed areas, in
my opinion. You can also rent boats or get fishing tackle and drop
in a line if you'd like.
The landing looking from the Cotton
Mill.
Right across from the landing, is a bridge to Ol' Man Island
(and from there you can take a different bridge to Magnolia Bend).
Immediate adjacent to the landing are the first of the bayou buildings.
French Quarter | Riverside
Landing | Riverside
Mansions | Riverside
Bayou | Pools |
Restaurants
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Resort French Quarter "Fast Facts" Page or click
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"Fast Facts" Page.
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