Patch Notes // latest change 2023.07.27
Fort Wilderness · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · Walt Disney World
Restaurant · opened 1974 · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · 4 changes on record
Disney announced (reported late January 2023) that Trail's End's sit-down family-style dining would end and the venue would close for conversion into a counter-service marketplace restaurant.
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After its COVID-era closure, Trail's End reopened July 17, 2021 with a reconcept from its long-running all-you-care-to-enjoy buffet to an all-you-care-to-enjoy family-style skillet menu, flat-priced at $19.99 adult / $11.99 child for breakfast and $29.99 adult / $17.99 child for dinner.
Trail's End opened as an original tenant of the newly built Pioneer Hall (which opened April 1, 1974) at Fort Wilderness, originally named the Trail's End Buffeteria and Campfire Snack Bar.
That's every change on the record at Trail's End Restaurant since 1974.
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Per the documented record, Trail's End Restaurant at Walt Disney World Resort Hotels opened on Apr 1, 1974.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Trail's End Restaurant is dated Jan 2023: Disney announced (reported late January 2023) that Trail's End's sit-down family-style dining would end and the venue would close for conversion into a counter-service marketplace restaurant.
The latest documented change (documented Jul 27, 2023): Trail's End reopened July 27, 2023 fully reimagined as a quick-service, grab-and-go marketplace restaurant with an on-stage pizza station, hot smoked-protein selections and a house-made bakery, offering family-sized entrees to take out or individual meals to eat in.
4 documented changes, dating back to 1974 — the fan-kept restaurant changelog nobody else keeps.
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