Trail's End Restaurant at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort to be replaced with a new quick service concept

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Posted: Monday January 30, 2023 10:21am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Trail's End Restaurant at Disney's Fort Wilderness will close in spring 2023 to reopen in late 2023 as a new quick-service eatery.

Trail's End Restaurant at Disney's Fort Wilderness

Trail's End currently operates for limited hours, offering family-style breakfast priced at $22.99 from 7:30am to 12pm, and family-style dinner from 4:30pm to 9:30pm pried at $31.99.

Trail's End family-style skillets - breakfast and dinner

The existing menu offers all-you-care-to-enjoy skillets featuring pecan-smoked brisket, smoked chicken, pulled pork, sausage, roasted potatoes, corn-on-the-cob, and green beans.

The new marketplace concept will likely feature a more varied menu at lower price points, with more flexible dining that does not require a reservation.

Disney has not yet provided a closing date for Trail's End, or any details on the new quick-service concept.

Trail's End was one of the later restaurants to reopen from the COVID-19 closure, returning to operation with family-style in place of the previous buffet on July 17 2021.

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oogie boogie man25 days ago

For some reason when I think of Trail's closing I think of Boyz II Men's "It's so hard to say goodbye."

Todd H26 days ago

We used to go to Trail’s End all the time when we stayed at Wilderness Lodge. Loved the buffet and there never seemed to be anyone there. It always felt like the best kept secret at the park.

JohnDFeb 20, 2023

I arrive 4/16 and was looking for ADR possibilities. The closure of Trail's End made the decision for me. It will be my first and last time dining there.

DCBakerFeb 20, 2023

While Disney has not given a closing date for Trail’s End Restaurant, it appears reservations are no longer being accepted past April 16.

SirwalterraleighFeb 04, 2023

…that will be the new frozen character breakfast 🤪

note2001Feb 04, 2023

I'd be all for it. Boma is overpriced and overrated. Jiko is 1000x better.

SirwalterraleighFeb 03, 2023

For a new “low staff marketplace concept”? ….it’s on the radar

Disstevefan1Feb 03, 2023

Boma is GREAT! I wonder when they are going to shut down that buffet?

prberkFeb 03, 2023

Yes. When it was a buffet, it was delicious and laid back. All of the food without the cost of the character breakfasts.

FettFanJan 31, 2023

celluloidJan 31, 2023

I want to thank you for letting me write the foreward spot on that "They could sit next to me at the Poly with my Mickey Mouse Shirley Temple and not have to buy a meal, if only the monorails worked and the ferries weren't down for dessert party prep"

SirwalterraleighJan 31, 2023

That’s gonna be another book i’m gonna write: “Let them eat overpriced (cup)cake(s)! Walt Disney World Customers in the Age of Self Soothing Insanity: 2005-??”