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First Impressions  |  Pools, Shopping, and other Recreation  |  Restaurants  |  Lodge Rooms  |  Villas Building and Rooms

The pool is relatively small, but is sufficient since the Lodge has much fewer rooms than most of the other resorts at WDW. The pool area also has a small kiddie pool and both a hot and cold water spa. Just beyond the pool and spas is a geyser that spouts off every few minutes (of course, it courteously avoids making such noises during sleeping hours -- it might keep the guests awake if it did that).

The Lodge's main pool is fed by Silver Creek

From this perspective, you can see the end of the small slide that dumps swimmers into pool from the rock above. As you can see, the pool area is enclosed by the Lodge building itself. Only the end of the courtyard is open to Bay Lake beyond.

The pool's small slide.

The pool is heated, and is open even in the Winter months when the lifeguards would rather be drinking hot chocolate.

Chilled lifeguard (Photo by Sue Holland)

The "Hidden Springs" pool was added to Wilderness Lodge when the Villas building was added. It's a smaller pool, and doesn't have a slide, but it is a nice, quieter pool for folks that just want to cool off in the hot afternoon sun.

Hidden Springs Pool

Hidden Springs pool does have a large number of deck chairs for folks that just want to sun themselves. There is also a small hot tub. But if you want a slide or a children's pool, you have to walk over to the main pool complex next door.

Hidden Springs Pool area with the Villas building in the background

Besides swimming, sunbathing, and hottubbing, There are other activities at the Lodge, too. Buttons and Bells Arcade provides a place for gamers to drop a few coins. The Mickey car ride in the foreground of the picture below is a hit with toddlers, too.

Buttons and Bells Arcade

The rental building, shown in the next picture, is where you can go to rent bikes or watercraft for use on Bay Lake. You can cruise on the lake or over to Seven Seas Lagoon (the body of water that the Magic Kingdom is on), since there is a water bridge, over a vehicle road, that connects the lake and the lagoon that is open to both Disney transportation watercraft and rental boats.

The rental building (Photo by Sue Holland)

Since Wilderness Lodge is themed to be like the National Park Lodges out West, there are several places designed for folks to just sit down, enjoy each other's company, and perhaps read a book. Here are a few of those cozy spots that are scattered around both the Lodge and Villas buildings.

This spot is located on the fifth floor. The railing to the right looks out over the lobby below.

Over in the Villas building, the lobby has groups of chairs where guests can gather.

Sturdy Branches is a state of the art fitness center that was added to the Wilderness Lodge Resort when the Villas building was built.

Sturdy Branches fitness center.

First Impressions  |  Pools, Shopping, and other Recreation  |  Restaurants  |  Lodge Rooms  |  Villas Building and Rooms

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