Closures
What is closed at Walt Disney World
Nine attractions across three Walt Disney World parks are either permanently closed or under construction as of July 2026, all of them in Frontierland, Grand Avenue and the former DinoLand, and none of them has a reopening date we are prepared to print.
Expected — not yet announced · Checked July 2026
Every item on this tracker is cross-checked against Ride Ready Guide's attraction dataset, which carries the status field reported here, and nothing appears on this page that our sister site does not carry as closed or under construction. Reopening timings are our reading of what Disney has said publicly; none is presented as an announced date, and the one item with no verifiable year is labelled as unannounced rather than estimated. Routine short-term refurbishments are not tracked.
Tracked closures
| Attraction | Park | Status | Expected back | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rivers of America | Magic Kingdom | Permanently closed | Not coming back | Drained permanently as part of Magic Kingdom's western expansion work. Nothing returns to this waterway, and the two attractions that used it are closed with it. If you are planning around a Magic Kingdom map more than a year old, Frontierland and Liberty Square are the areas that have changed. |
| Liberty Belle Riverboat | Magic Kingdom | Permanently closed | Not coming back | Closed with the Rivers of America. This was one of the few genuine sit-down rest attractions at Magic Kingdom, and its loss changes how a long day with small children or limited mobility should be paced. |
| Tom Sawyer Island | Magic Kingdom | Permanently closed | Not coming back | Closed with the Rivers of America that reached it. Magic Kingdom now has no free-roaming outdoor play area, which is worth knowing if you were counting on it as the afternoon release valve for a five-year-old. |
| Muppet*Vision 3D | Disney's Hollywood Studios | Permanently closed | Not coming back | Closed permanently to clear the Grand Avenue area for redevelopment. Hollywood Studios has lost an air-conditioned seated show in a park that is short of them, which matters most between June and September. |
| DINOSAUR | Disney's Animal Kingdom | Permanently closed | Not coming back | Closed permanently for the Tropical Americas redevelopment of the former DinoLand. Its replacement is the Indiana Jones attraction listed below, in the same building footprint. |
| It's Tough to Be a Bug | Disney's Animal Kingdom | Permanently closed | Not coming back | The show is gone; the theater beneath the Tree of Life is not. Ride Ready Guide carries the Tree of Life Theater as open with different programming, so treat this as a change of show rather than a lost venue. |
| Indiana Jones Adventure (Tropical Americas) | Disney's Animal Kingdom | Under construction | 2027 | The headline attraction of the Tropical Americas land replacing DinoLand. Disney has spoken about a 2027 opening publicly; we have not verified a date and are not going to print one. Treat 2027 as the earliest a trip could be planned around it, not as a commitment. |
| Pueblo Esperanza Carousel (Tropical Americas) | Disney's Animal Kingdom | Under construction | with the Tropical Americas land | A family spinner for the new land, expected to open alongside it rather than separately. Animal Kingdom has been short of young-child attractions since the DinoLand closures and this is the replacement for that gap. |
| Encanto Ride-Through (Tropical Americas) | Disney's Animal Kingdom | Under construction | after the Indiana Jones attraction, no year given | Announced as part of Tropical Americas but sequenced behind the Indiana Jones attraction. No opening year has been given that we can verify, so this is the one item on the tracker we would not plan any trip around. |