Lawn Mower Tree

For those of you not familiar with the “Lawnmower Tree” it’s an interesting oddity located at the Fort Wilderness Campground. It seems that years before Walt Disney World opened, someone leaned an old, push-style lawnmower against a tree and left it there. Over the years, the tree slowly grew around it. When the campground was being developed, the Disney Imagineers noticed this lawnmower half encased in a tree, thought it was interesting, and eventually put up a small sign to highlight this curiosity.

Lawn mowertree at Fort Wilderness

I’ve been visiting Walt Disney World since 1972 and on each visit have watched the slow disappearance of the lawnmower as the bark continues to incase it. Currently, only a very small part of the blades are still visible at the base of the tree. But I have sad news”¦ For reason I do not know, most of the upper half of the tree has been cut off. Now, only about twelve feet of the trunk remains. Since the tree is now dead, the lawnmower’s slow disappearance has been halted.

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  1. Actually I saw the lawnmower tree in the late 1960’s when it was in front of an old hunting camp on what later became Fort Wilderness Campground at Disney World. The pine tree grew up between the blades of the rotary mower and was about the diameter of a shovel handle at the time when I saw it. Forgot about it until we visited Disney after it opened and there was the “Lawnmower Tree” but it had grown quite a bit. So glad I got to see it before Disney.