Wilderness Lodge DVC additions - Copper Creek Villas & Cabins

JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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21stamps said:
Ok. I'm a little confused. First of all, silly me for thinking someone could have a convo without using a search engine. That's the Internet for ya, I guess.
More importantly though, I thought the theme of WL was the Pacific Northwest. Is that not the case? The list you provided had Hawaii on it as well.
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Just don't want to see great lodges and conflate that with WL?

Not a hard reach, the imagineers did it.

What is the confusion?
 
21stamps

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JoeCamel said:
It is the lodges built as a way to promote the RR. It includes Banff, the south rim of the GC, Yosemite, etc. There are several that are magnificent in their settings that were amalgamated to make a theme park attraction known as "Wilderness Lodge".

A few but not all can be found here. I have stayed in about 3/4 of them and look forward to doing the rest in the future

http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/outdoors-and-adventure/articles/great-national-park-lodges
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Ah. Ok. None will be within driving distance of Seattle. I know very little about that part of the country. I'm armed with a slew of library books though. I have a little less than 5 months to learn.
 
JoeCamel

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21stamps said:
Ah. Ok. None will be within driving distance of Seattle. I know very little about that part of the country. I'm armed with a slew of library books though. I have a little less than 5 months to learn.
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They are all within the driving distance from Seattle, or Florida, or New York or Calgary, etc.
 
21stamps

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JoeCamel said:
They are all within the driving distance from Seattle
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We're only there 2 nights pre cruise, and then 5 or 6 after. I chose the Olympic Peninsula bc it was the closest, and I found a wonderful National Geographic article online about road trips thru the park..prompted me to go get some books and plan a route. 6 nights is the absolute most we could do, and we're flying back out of Seattle.
 
Grimley1968

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JoeCamel said:
It is the lodges built as a way to promote the RR. It includes Banff, the south rim of the GC, Yosemite, etc. There are several that are magnificent in their settings that were amalgamated to make a theme park attraction known as "Wilderness Lodge".

A few but not all can be found here. I have stayed in about 3/4 of them and look forward to doing the rest in the future

http://www.travelchannel.com/interests/outdoors-and-adventure/articles/great-national-park-lodges
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Probably because I don't think it was associated with RR companies, the Grand Teton Lodge wasn't on the list. The exterior of that lodge isn't anything spectacular but the lobby features a floor to ceiling picture window that allows you to sit in comfy chairs in the lobby and gaze at the Grand Tetons all day if you want. I did that for pretty much an entire day once while waiting to acclimate myself to the thin air there.
 
21stamps

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Grimley1968 said:
Probably because I don't think it was associated with RR companies, the Grand Teton Lodge wasn't on the list. The exterior of that lodge isn't anything spectacular but the lobby features a floor to ceiling picture window that allows you to sit in comfy chairs in the lobby and gaze at the Grand Tetons all day if you want. I did that for pretty much an entire day once while waiting to acclimate myself to the thin air there.
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Holy cow that looks beautiful.
 
JoeCamel

JoeCamel

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Grimley1968 said:
Probably because I don't think it was associated with RR companies, the Grand Teton Lodge wasn't on the list. The exterior of that lodge isn't anything spectacular but the lobby features a floor to ceiling picture window that allows you to sit in comfy chairs in the lobby and gaze at the Grand Tetons all day if you want. I did that for pretty much an entire day once while waiting to acclimate myself to the thin air there.
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Ben there done that. When we talk about theme the people that designed those places knew how to present the landscape surrounding them. GTL is one of the best. My niece spends her summers teaching paragliding in Jackson. One of the premier examples of how to show natural beauty.
 
Grimley1968

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JoeCamel said:
Ben there done that. When we talk about theme the people that designed those places knew how to present the landscape surrounding them. GTL is one of the best. My niece spends her summers teaching paragliding in Jackson. One of the premier examples of how to show natural beauty.
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I only went once when I was 19. We stayed there and drove to Yellowstone for a couple of days and hung out at the Grand Tetons area another couple of days. My biggest regret was that slight "altitude sickness" I had. It was my first time west of the Mississippi and first time at altitude like that. That picture window view was unbelievable but I wish I could have been more active the first day I was there. I plan to go out there again in the next 5 years or so, but with a clearer understanding of how to deal with altitude.
 
JoeCamel

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Grimley1968 said:
I only went once when I was 19. We stayed there and drove to Yellowstone for a couple of days and hung out at the Grand Tetons area another couple of days. My biggest regret was that slight "altitude sickness" I had. It was my first time west of the Mississippi and first time at altitude like that. That picture window view was unbelievable but I wish I could have been more active the first day I was there. I plan to go out there again in the next 5 years or so, but with a clearer understanding of how to deal with altitude.
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The view is not the same but you will still enjoy it.
 
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DDLand

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JoeCamel said:
How about they colored them green? I mean the rest is all green right? That would fit the theme?

Just kidding it is simply cost cutting IMO

BTW to the poster that said the rooms in the lodge are dark? Well, take a trip to the great lodges and you will see they are perfectly in theme. It was tough to get glass to those so the windows were small. No sliding glass in those.
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The cabins seem to be loosely based on structures from Yellowstone.

These examples are from Roosevelt Lodge Cabins:
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Here's another hotel there too:
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It may be cheaper, but it's far from problematic.

It's also worth noting that the original DVC buildout shook the green color to evoke an earlier time period away from the main Lodge.

I'm overall less concerned about the roofs of the cabins, and more bewildered by some of the proportionality of the project. Some of it looks a little off model and too modern. This is in contrast to the careful buildout thus far that is meant to evoke a story of development from the old Railroad Lodge (DVC) to the more extravagant new building for the main Lodge. Where these new cabins will fit into that progression is yet to be seen.

I hope when all the setting and landscaping is in place, it will all make sense.
 
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peter11435

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hpyhnt 1000 said:
I'm sorry to get nit picky for a moment, but who approved installation of these very out of place LED walkway lights?

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I hope those aren't the final products becuase they stink. There do seem to be footings (circled in red) at the base of each light that could be for more elaborate, appropriately themed fixtures, and the current ones are just placeholders to get the area opened ASAP. Fingers crossed...
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Looks like these lights have already started to be replaced.
 
S 2

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Grimley1968 said:
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I just realized I have never really looked at its roof before now, which is a good thing cause the building has always blended naturally for me. My new thing will be asking Disney pros if they can describe by memory the Wilderness Lodge roof! lol
 

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