This was our second trip but our first to Fort Wilderness. We were expecting the usual afternoon showers but it was amazing amounts of rain. We checked in during a torrential downpour which was interesting. A wonderful man came from his camper across the street and helped us get into our site.
We had heavy downpours every day. Many of the sites were almost completely covered with standing water. Some campers stepped out of their RV into a small pond...for several days. Many tenters were rained out. Our site was surrounded by water but not next to our RV. I can only imagine the mosquitoes in a couple of weeks after all the standing water. The sand area will keep water so dig a small tunnel under the timber outline for the water to drain.
The water was up and wheelchairs had boat access.
Transportation was fine. Each loop has a bus stop with a transportation board with all the info. Your loop is assigned a orange, purple or yellow bus. The internal buses run from the Settlement to the Outpost stopping at each loop. You then transfer to the bus needed for Animal Kingdom, MGM, EPCOT, Downtown. The boat is the quickest way to MK. We don't recommend the boat after E Night. We waited in line over an hour to ride the boat. They had one boat at first and then brought in two boats to help out.
One warning....if you have an early morning priority seating breakfast and need transportation make sure you call the Front Desk....not transportation. I would call the day before your ressie. We had an Cinderella Breakfast. There are early buses from the resorts but the Fort Wilderness buses do not run before 7:00. Our breakfast was next morning of our arrival and I wasn't sure about the transportation. I had received info to call transportation approx. 45 min before you need a ride. I did that. Transportation said I should have called 24 hours in advance and recommended we take the Boone Bus. I told them there was no longer a Boone bus and now buses were color coded...the CM at transportation was not aware of the new system. Needless to say I was in a panic at 6:30 with no transportation to Magic Kingdom. I called the front desk at Fort Wilderness and they came to our rescue and sent a van for us that took us to MK. I think the front desk is up to date on info and direct you in the right direction. Oh yes, it did take our friends 1 1/2 hours to get to Downtown Disney but I'm not sure why.
We went prepared for mosquitoes and "No Seeums" but I think they were rained out as well. We didn't have a problem.
Just an FYI...no citranella torches or citranella "glazing balls" ( I'm not sure what that is) are allowed. You can use citranella buckets though. And of course no wood fires. A couple of campers tried to have wood fires but were quickly informed of the rule and the fire extinguished.
We did have a wonderful time even if we are all now webbed-footed. Fort Wilderness is a very nice campground. We were in loop 1600 which was near the meadows for swimming and campfire activities. It did look like the 300 loop had less standing water.
The golf carts were parked at the settlement on paved walking areas.
If you have any other questions...let me know. Ya'll helped me so much with the planning, I want to return the favor.