If you have been watching the Frontierland construction situation at Magic Kingdom with any regularity this year, you already know the pattern. Something disappears from the My Disney Experience digital map. A few weeks pass. Then the construction walls expand and whatever was removed from the map is physically gone from the park.
Disney just removed the Frontierland boardwalk from the digital map.
The path that connected the Rivers of America area to Liberty Square no longer appears in My Disney Experience or on the official Disney website. Where the boardwalk used to be drawn curling along the main walkway between the two lands, there is now open green space. The boardwalk has not fully closed on the ground yet. But based on how every prior step of this project has played out, that is a matter of when rather than if.
Why the Map Change Matters
The digital map is not a passive reflection of what is happening in the park. At Magic Kingdom right now, it functions as a leading indicator of what is coming. Disney established that pattern clearly earlier this year with the Frontierland kiosks.
BlogMickey.com reported in late January that three Frontierland kiosk locations were slated for closure as part of the Piston Peak National Park construction expansion. Disney filed permits for all three in mid-February. The kiosks then disappeared from the digital map in early March. Construction walls followed days later. Disney posted official closing dates in late April. Big Al's closed May 11th. Westward Ho closed June 22nd. The pattern from map removal to physical closure held precisely at every step.
The boardwalk removal from the digital map is the same signal. It does not mean the boardwalk is closed today. It means Disney has decided what the space is going to look like and has updated the map accordingly. The physical reality on the ground will catch up.
What Is Still There Right Now
As of the most recent visits documented by park reporters, most of the boardwalk remains physically open to guests. The section closest to Liberty Square has already closed, that happened in early June, and Disney opened a new paved walkway in its place after filling in a small stream that had been informally called the Little Mississippi. That stretch is now walled off.
The rest of the boardwalk, the sections running past Country Bear Musical Jamboree, Prairie Outpost, and Frontier Trading Post, is still accessible. Two of the three Frontierland kiosks from the original January report have already closed permanently. Only churro and popcorn carts remain in the area near where Westward Ho and Big Al's used to operate.
Frontierland is still walkable and Country Bear Musical Jamboree is still running. The construction presence is visible and the snack options are reduced, but guests moving through the land are not hitting walls at every turn. That is the current situation. It may not be the situation in a few weeks.
The Full Timeline of How Frontierland Got Here
Understanding the map change requires understanding the project timeline that produced it.
Late January: BlogMickey.com exclusively reported that three Frontierland locations were slated for closure as Piston Peak construction expanded.
Mid-February: Disney filed permits for the three named locations.
Early March: The kiosks came off the digital map. Construction wall expansion followed days later.
Late April: Disney posted official closing dates. Big Al's set for May 11th, Westward Ho for June 22nd.
Mid-May: Big Al's closed and was prepped for demolition.
Early June: The first boardwalk section near Liberty Square closed. A new paved walkway opened alongside it.
June 22nd: Westward Ho closed permanently.
Now: The remaining boardwalk sections are still open but no longer appear on the digital map.
That is the sequence. Every step has moved in the same direction and on the same general timeline from map change to physical closure.
What Disney Has Said About the Boardwalk's Future
The boardwalk is not going away permanently. Walt Disney World has confirmed that a boardwalk feature will be present once Piston Peak National Park opens. The most recent concept art released by Disney for the Piston Peak project includes a boardwalk element in the finished land design, which means what is being removed now is being rebuilt as something new rather than simply eliminated.
What is not known is whether the Frontierland kiosks that have already closed, Big Al's, Westward Ho, and the third location, will return in any form when the land opens. Disney has not addressed that. The opening timeline for Piston Peak National Park also remains without a confirmed date, though the aerial photography captured during the July 4th military flyover over Magic Kingdom showed the construction footprint is substantial.
What This Means for Guests Visiting Magic Kingdom
For guests visiting in the near term, Frontierland is still accessible and most of the boardwalk is still walkable. The changes are visible but the land is not closed. What has changed is the snack landscape and the immediate area around the walled-off Liberty Square section.
For guests who want to walk the full remaining boardwalk before it closes, the map removal is the clearest sign yet that the window is narrowing. There is no confirmed date for when the rest of the boardwalk closes, but based on the project's pace, the remaining open sections are likely to follow the same path as everything that came before them.
For guests planning longer trips around Piston Peak's opening, there is still no official date to plan around. Monitoring permit filings and digital map updates is the most reliable way to track how the project is progressing between now and whenever Disney makes a formal announcement.
If you have walked the Frontierland boardwalk recently, drop a comment describing what it currently looks like on the ground. And if you are heading to Magic Kingdom soon and want to know what to expect in that part of the park, ask below. The situation is changing quickly enough that real guest reports from recent visits are genuinely more useful than any static guide right now.
