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Walt Disney World Orlando Sights

  • Bay Slides

    These scaled-down versions of the Storm Slides are geared to younger kids, who must be under 60 inches to ride.

  • Castaway Creek

    This circular, 15-foot-wide, 3-foot-deep waterway is everyone's water fantasy come true. Snag an inner tube and float along the creek that winds around the entire park, a wet version of the Magic Kingdom's Walt Disney World Railroad. You pass through a ...

  • Crush 'N' Gusher

    If flume rides, storm slides, and tube races aren't wild enough for your inner thrill-seeker, get ready to defy gravity on Disney's first water coaster. Designed to propel you uphill and down along a series of flumes, caverns, and spillways, this ride ...

  • Gang Plank Falls

    If you climb up Mt. Mayday for this ride, you'll go down in four-person, 6½-foot-long inflated rafts that descend crazily through 300 feet of rapids. This is a great ride for adventurous families to enjoy together—the rafts can hold five if some of the ...

  • Humunga Kowabunga

    There's little time to scream, but you'll hear just such vociferous reactions as the survivors emerge from the catch pool opposite Shark Reef. The basic question is: want to get scared out of your wits in three seconds flat—and like it enough to go back ...

  • Keelhaul Falls

    This spiraling, 400-foot ride in yellow inner tubes through raging rapids seems way faster than the purported 10 "mph".

  • Ketchakiddie Creek

    Typhoon Lagoon's children's area has slides, mini-rapids, squirting whales and seals, bouncing barrels, waterfalls, sprinklers, and all the other ingredients of a splash fiesta. The bubbling sand ponds, where youngsters can sit in what seems like an ...

  • Mayday Falls

    The 460-foot slide over Mayday Falls in blue inner tubes is the longest and bumpiest of the three falls; it's a straight slide over the falls into a catchment, which gives you just enough time to catch your breath before the next plunge.

  • Mt. Mayday

    What goes down can also go up—and up and up and up and up. "It's like climbing Mt. Everest," wailed one teenager about a climb that seems a lot steeper than this 85-foot peak would warrant. However, it's Mt. Everest with hibiscus flowers, a rope bridge, ...

  • Shark Reef

    If you felt like leaping onto the stage at the Studios' Voyage of the Little Mermaid or jumping into the tank at Epcot's the Seas with Nemo & Friends, make tracks for this 360,000-gallon snorkeling tank. The coral reef is artificial, but the 4,000 tropical ...

  • Storm Slides

    Each of these three body slides is about 300 feet long and snakes in and out of rock formations, through caves and tunnels, and under waterfalls, but each has a slightly different view and offers a twist. The one in the middle has the longest tunnel; the ...

  • Typhoon Lagoon

    According to Disney legend, Typhoon Lagoon was created when the quaint, thatched-roof, lushly landscaped Placid Palms Resort was struck by a cataclysmic storm. It left a different world in its wake: surfboards sundered trees, once-upright palms imitated ...

  • Typhoon Lagoon Surf Pool

    This is the heart of the park, a swimming area that spreads out over 2½ acres and contains almost 3 million gallons of clear, chlorinated water. It's scalloped by lots of little coves, bays, and inlets, all edged with white-sand beaches—spread over a base ...


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