About Wilderness Resorts

The Wilderness Hotel and Golf Resort has experienced tremendous growth since it opened its doors in June 1995.

Today the facility has over 30 different lodging options to choose from. The resort offers comfortable, rustic double queen guest rooms at Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort as well as Glacier Canyon. In addition, for those looking for a more spacious option Glacier Canyon Lodge and Wilderness on the Lake have luxurious 2- and 3-beroom condominium units that sleep up to 16. If that’s not enough, the resort also has a wide variety of Vacation Villas, New Frontier Condos as well as 3-, 4- and 5-bedroom cabins which can sleep up to 20 guests.

Take a look at our impressive growth and learn how we have become America’s Largest Waterpark Resort.

• June 1995 - Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort opens with 79 units, the Fort Wilderness Indoor Waterpark, two outdoor pools and a spa.
• 1996 - 59 guest units are added to the hotel as well as the Timber Rapids Tube Slide and two kiddie slides.
• 1998 – 84 guest units are added to the hotel, Wilderness Woods 18-hole golf course opens, Gold Rush Tube Slide, Prospector’s Creek Lazy River and Bear Foot Island are added.
• 1998 – Ground is broken on Phase I of the vacation villa development (28 units)
• 1999 – 60 additional guest units are added to the hotel and Klondike Kavern, the resort’s second indoor waterpark
• 1999 – The Field brothers break ground Field’s at the Wilderness restaurant.
• 2000 – Field’s at the Wilderness and the MotherLode (now Wild Canyon Café) lobby restaurant open. Phase II of the Frontier Condominiums is completed and construction begins on the resort’s new
  clubhouse and Little Links Lakes course.
• 2000 – Construction begins on the Lodge Condominiums.
• 2001 – The resort opens its $1.5 million, 6,700-square-foot clubhouse. In addition, some of the Lodge Condominiums open.
• Summer 2002 –162 additional guest rooms are added, Wild West lobby opens, Dodge ‘Em City, a 30,000-square-foot indoor play park featuring Timberland Playhouse, and Lake Wilderness outdoor waterpark open.
• Summer 2002 – Ground is broken on Wilderness on the Lake, a $37 million, 108 unit premier condominium project located on Lake Delton. The remainder of the Lodge Condominiums open.
• February 2003 – Wild West indoor waterpark, a $10 million addition, complete with the Midwest’s only interactive indoor wave pool opens. Sarento’s at the Wilderness, a fine Italian Restaurant and the Thirsty Buffalo Saloon, a sports bar also open.
• July 2003 – Wilderness on the Lake, a 108-unit premier condominium complex which overlooks Lake Delton opens. It offers two- and three-bedroom
  units in a secluded retreat with a private four-season patio and four-person Jacuzzi tub. In addition all guests of Wilderness on the Lake receive full access to the entire resort facilities.
• Fall 2003 – All New Frontier guest rooms receive a fresh coat of paint, new carpet, second television and ironing board added to them.
• June 2004 – The resort’s amazing outdoor wave pool, along with 20 private poolside cabanas for lounging in style open. Cabanas can be rented for $75-$300 per day. Summer 2004 – Pistol Pete’s Beans & Ice Cream and the OK Corral Lazer Tag Arena open.
• Summer 2005 - In honor of its 10th anniversary, Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort opens two fabulous new attractions the Hurricane and Black Hole waterslides.
• October 10, 2005 – The Wilderness announces its largest expansion to date; a massive $150 million project which includes the development of Glacier Canyon Lodge an upscale 224-condo unit resort with a 25,000 sq. ft. banquet center and 3.2 acre outdoor
  waterpark; the enclosure of the resort’s outdoor wave pool with a state-of-the art Foil Tec where guests can tan indoors year-round; the creation of a new Wild Rock 18-hole championship Golf Course by Hurdzan/Fry; and the addition of Monk’s restaurant on premise.
• April 2006 – The Wilderness opens the Wild WaterDome, its largest indoor waterpark yet, which thanks to a state-of-the-art Foil Tec Roof allows people to tan and plants to grow indoors. It is also home to the nation’s largest indoor wave pool the Great Wave.
• July 2006 – The Wilderness opens its massive 3.2 acre Lost World Waterpark located at Glacier Canyon Lodge, its newest upscale condominium resort. The facility boasts 1,600 foot-long interactive adventure river system that features fast rapids, uphill currents down twisting slides, under bridges and through swirls and runoffs. There is also a huge pool with lounging ridge to relax in, dinosaur-themed basketball hoops for the kids to enjoy and a kiddy play-n-spray structure
  for the little ones to splash around in, complete with Stegosaurus and Pteranodon sculptures.
• December 2006 – Glacier Canyon Lodge’s 25,000 sq. ft. conference and banquet center opens.
• Winter 2007 – Wilderness developers finalize plans for an events center hotel and condominium resort complex in Sevierville TN. (See www.WildernessattheSmokies.com)