September 17th Fort Wilderness Campground WDW check in day!

Our site :)

When I called at 8am our site was ready! This was very exciting, but we weren't able to actually get there and set up until almost 11 time all was done. Driving from the Thousand Trails we stayed the night at. Then checking in and deciding against the site we were assigned.

We tried to link our sites to be near our family, however, they were in a different style site and this made it a bit difficult. At first we were assigned to a newly redone loop.  This would have put us on the next loop over from family. Some cabins had been removed from a loop to make more full hookup sites. This didn't work out so good for us. The newly assigned full hook ups were not dog loops, this doesn't mean a whole lot. You will be assigned where they can put you once they get a bit full. And dogs are assigned non-pet loops all the time. The problem for us was it was tight. We have a 30 foot RV, a rather large towing vehicle then our new bike rack set up sticking off the front of the truck. Made us quite long and it was just too difficult to try and maneuver around in the new loop. Many people had their vehicles out in the drive area past the end of their sites. And this was true for the site directly in front of the one we were assigned. Probably more than half the occupants of this loop were like that as well. It was a tight squeeze all around the loop to get out again and back to the office.

But that is ok. We went back up to check in and got moved to Timber Trail and site 1634. And it was ready for us to move in too! So no extra waiting. We loved this site! It was very long and right in front of the comfort station which was very helpful for doing our laundry about midway through our stay.

From our site, there was a path, although not official almost straight to the bus stop behind the comfort station. It did rain quite a bit that first night giving us a pretty swap behind our site that made the path no longer usable but it was good at first. We were also able to walk from our site to the comfort station directly behind us to a walking path into the 1500 loop and the bus station was right there at the entrance to that loop. We never even went over to the bus stop for our loop as this was so convenient.  This was also a good quick way to ride our bikes toward the Meadow or the Settlement. 

We did a bit of decoration on our site but not a whole lot. As you see in pictures on this page we had some flags and lights. We had heard how dark it can get so we made sure to have some lights to welcome us home in the evenings. It was so hot and humid we really didn't spend much time outside at our site. Never even moved the table into place after parking, just left it where we put it while we backed in. Thinking now, I don't think I have any at night. So this is the best view we will have to remember it by.

This was a nice day of setting up and just visiting with family. We had some that had come to camp as well and those that drove up to hang out with us for a bit at our sites. It was very good to see family we get to see so rarely.