Orange County

The county in brief

A traveler's read on Orange County

Seventy-five million annual visitors pass through Orange County per Visit Orlando's pre-pandemic peak reporting, making it the most-visited county in the United States by total visitor count — driven by Walt Disney World Resort (4 theme parks, 2 water parks, Disney Springs, 30+ resort hotels across 25,000 acres straddling the Orange-Osceola line), Universal Orlando Resort (3 theme parks including the 2025-opened Epic Universe), and SeaWorld Orlando. The tourism concentration is unmatched anywhere else in the world by gate revenue per square mile per Themed Entertainment Association attendance data. Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground operates 799 RV-friendly sites accepting rigs to 60 ft with full hookups across 28 themed loops on 750 acres of pine-and-cypress forest — the largest theme-park-attached campground in the United States, with resort-guest perks that include the Magical Express bus network (discontinued for most resorts but retained for Fort Wilderness), Disney's only campfire-and-marshmallow Chip 'n' Dale character experience, and the only horseback-riding livery on Disney property.

Reservations open via My Disney Experience 499 days ahead; January-March and Christmas weeks book within the first hour. Wekiwa Springs State Park on the county's northwest side holds Florida's third-largest first-magnitude spring with 42 million gallons per day discharge, year-round 72°F water, and a 60-site campground accepting rigs to 50 ft with electric per Florida State Parks reservation system. Orlando International Airport (MCO) inside the county handled 57.7 million passengers in 2023 per FAA data, the seventh-busiest US airport. The county prohibits overnight RV street parking in unincorporated areas under Code §31-1-58.