Mickey Forest

The topiary project was announced as the 50-acre “Mickey Forest" in the Feb. 20, 1992 edition of Disney’s cast member newsletter Eyes & Ears. According to the newsletter article, the 50,000 slash pine trees that make up the forest were planted by Disney. The planting was designed to be part of a much larger project to reforest areas where citrus groves had met their demise following the bitter cold snaps of the 1980s.



The article goes on to say that the addition of the topiaries “will provide wildlife habitat, replenish oxygen in the atmosphere, stabilize soil and provide straw for mulch.” This topiary, however, appears to be the only one that Disney ever completed.

Check the Google Earth: Central Florida landscape. Located 13.8 miles due west of Sand Lake Road. Click here for a Google Map link; GPS coordinates are 28°27'7.71"N, 81°42'11.18"W

(daisy, 2008)