{"id":11957,"date":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:48:07","slug":"disneys-fort-wilderness-resort-and-campground-guest-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/11957\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground guest dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second guest has died at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida \u2014 less than a mile from where a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/17\/us-news\/disney-superfan-took-her-own-life-at-notorious-suicide-spot\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">superfan took her own life<\/a>\u00a0last week.<\/p>\n<p>Police, resort staff and medical responders were dispatched to Disney\u2019s Fort Wilderness Resort &amp; Campground on reports of a \u201cPerson Down\u201d just after 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Inside the Magic reported, citing Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office (OCSO).<\/p>\n<p>A man in his 60s was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the OCSO confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.93066406;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37450258\" width=\"549\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2020-fort-wilderness-opened-monday-113962299.jpg\" alt=\"Signage for Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort &amp; Campground at Walt Disney World.\" class=\"wp-image-37450258\"  \/>A second guest at Walt Disney World in a week has died, this time at Fort Wilderness Resort. TNS via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no signs of foul play,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said, adding that the circumstances leading up to his death remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A \u201cPerson Down\u201d call could fall under unattended or natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>An emergency call went out for all guests staying at the resort, located within the Disney World property near Magic Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in the 1500 loop \u2014 site Cottontail Curl \u2014 one of 21 sites on the resort-based trail with campsites.<\/p>\n<p>It also features cabins and RV pads, as well as expansive green spaces and horse-drawn carriage rides as part of its woodland charm.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37450259\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/past-days-brought-renewed-attention-113962289.jpg\" alt=\"A tent is set up by a pond, surrounded by trees, at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort &amp; Campground.\" class=\"wp-image-37450259\"  \/>There were \u201cno signs of foul play\u201d in the death of the male guest in his 60s. Disney<\/p>\n<p>However, this means pockets of it are far more isolated, and staff visibility can be lower than in dense hotel corridors,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneydining.com\/another-death-reported-at-disney-world-resort-two-in-one-week-ad1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Disney Dining reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walt Disney World Resort and the OCSO did not respond immediately to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy comes just days after another death on the sprawling resort.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/15\/us-news\/disney-world-guest-dies-by-apparent-suicide-on-monorail-track\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Summer Equitz, 31, took her own life<\/a>\u00a0at Disney\u2019s Contemporary Resort.<\/p>\n<p>The Naperville, Illinois woman and Disney superfan had arrived at the park that same day without informing her family.<\/p>\n<p>She died of \u201cmultiple blunt impact injuries,\u201d the OCSO said, after earlier reports wrongly stated she was struck by the monorail which passes through the middle of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Just 10 months earlier, in a December 2024 Facebook post,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/16\/us-news\/disney-fan-summer-equitz-died-by-suicide-at-contemporary-resort-months-after-announcing-pregnancy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Equitz revealed that she was pregnant<\/a>\u00a0with her first child. <\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if she ever gave birth.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A second guest has died at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida \u2014 less than a mile from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1015,9479,3640,9,11,10,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-11957","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-disney-world","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}