The DinoLand U.S.A. entrance archway is gone from Disney’s Animal Kingdom following the land’s permanent closure this past weekend.
DinoLand Archway Demolished
Though guests can still cross the bridge that once led to DinoLand, they will no longer pass under an archway. Inside the land, construction walls, scrim, and planters block access to the extinct land.
The open walkways just lead guests to the Theater in the Wild featuring Finding Nemo: The Big Blue… and Beyond! and the Asia section of the park.
The bases of the archway remain, with brown scrim wrapped around the exposed hardware.
Below is what the archway looked like.
It featured a long-necked dinosaur standing above the “DinoLand U.S.A.” lettering. A semi-circle behind the dinosaur listed the core tenets of The Dino Institute: exploration, excavation, exultation. The Dino Institute logo was on either side of “DinoLand U.S.A.”
On the other side was “Discovery Island” and “Thank you for visiting DinoLand, U.S.A.”
DinoLand will be transformed into a new Tropical Americas land. Check out our complete history of DINOSAUR a.k.a. Countdown to Extinction, plus our last looks at each part of the original land: DINOSAUR, Restaurantosaurus, Donald’s Dino-Bash, Chester & Hester’s Dino-Rama, Chester & Hester’s Dinosaur Treasures, and The Boneyard.
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