Walkway from Grand Floridian to Magic Kingdom --- Finally!

For years now, it has been talked about and questioned about whether or not Disney will ever build a walkway from Disney's Grand Floridian Spa & Resort to the Magic Kingdom.  The walkway from the Magic Kingdom already extends past the monorail station and out to the canal where the floats are kept for the Electrical Water Pageant.  For this walkway to be completely, Disney would obviously have to build a bridge that crosses this canal and make it open so they could continue to have the Electrical Water Pageant.

Well, earlier this month Disney filed a permit with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection on a project titled "Grand Floridian to MK Walkway".  The fact that this permit was submitted indicates that Disney is seriously looking into connecting the Grand Floridian to the Magic Kingdom.

If this walkway is built, guests will be able to walk from the TTC through the Disney's Polynesian Village Resort past Disney's Grand Floridian Spa & Resort and onto the Magic Kingdom.  If the walkway were to follow existing paths, the walk from the nearest Grand Floridian guest building would be about 0.7 miles to the Main Entrance of Magic Kingdom. To compare, the walk from Disney’s Contemporary Resort to Magic Kingdom is just under 0.5 miles.

According to multiple sources, construction or at least prep work has begun on this project.


This is from the Grand Floridian side of the Electrical Water Pageant canal. (source Blog Mickey)


Prep work getting started on build the canal bridge. (source WDW News Today)