WDW Magazine April 2018: Beaches and Bayous | Page 124
PORT ORLEANS RIVERSIDE
The lobby at Port Orleans Riverside is modeled after the inside of an actual
riverboat! If you look up, you’ll see the ports of call listed around the tops of the
columns: Riverside, French Quarter, Gretna, Chalmette, Port Eads, St. Louis,
Sainte Genevieve, Cape Girardeau, Cairo, New Madrid, Caruthersville, Memphis,
Helena, Greenville, Vicksburg, Vidalia, Natchez, and Baton Rouge. (Look for
Hidden Mickeys in the wood latticework above these listed destinations and on
either side of the giant fans!)
The partially built sailboat, inside Boatwright’s Dining Hall, is an authentic
reproduction of the flat-bottom New Orleans Lugger that sailed the Mississippi
River in the 1820’s.
Robert Fulton is whom Fulton’s General Store is named after. In 1807, he built the
first commercial steamboat, the North River Steamboat, later known as the
Clermont.
PHOTO BY MIKE BILLICK