Today Is the LAST DAY To Visit The Boneyard at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
If you are a Walt Disney World fan, you know that 2025 has been a year of change at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Over the last eight months, we have seen Chester and Hester’s Dino-Rama demolished, It’s Tough to Be a Bug! close, and we are awaiting the opening of Zootopia: Better Zoogether!
Finally, there is the construction of Tropical Americas.
Pueblo Esperanza Is Coming
Originally announced at last year’s D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, Animal Kingdom’s new Tropical Americas land will replace DinoLand, U.S.A., and transport guests to Pueblo Esperanza, where they will experience a Disney animal carousel, an Encanto boat ride, and an Indiana Jones attraction.
Tropical Americas signage
To ensure that guests have every opportunity to say goodbye to DinoLand, Disney has closed the area in phases. As previously noted, Chester and Hester’s Dino-Rama was demolished in January.
Tropical Americas signage
Now, the countdown to extinction has struck zero on another DinoLand attraction.
The Boneyard Will Permanently Close Tomorrow
As previously announced, The Boneyard will permanently close today to facilitate further construction on Tropical Americas. That means that guests have just hours left to go on one last excavation at Disney’s Animal Kingdom!
For those who don’t know, The Boneyard opened with the rest of Disney’s Animal Kingdom on April 22, 1998.
The play area is essentially broken up into three distinct areas: a playground with slides, tunnels, and rope climbing, an interactive zone featuring musical dinosaur ribs, and an excavation area where young guests can play the role of an archaeologist as they sift through a large sandbox of dinosaur bones.
While never the most popular attraction at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, The Boneyard was a popular stop for families who wanted to let their young children run “wild.”
To create The Bonyard, Disney took casts of real dinosaur bones and then made reproductions out of plastic cement!
Soon, however, The Boneyard will go extinct, as have fellow playgrounds such as the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Movie Set Adventure, Tom Sawyer Island, and Pooh’s Playful Spot.
While few will bemoan the loss of The Boneyard, it was an interesting attraction in Animal Kingdom history.
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