Lake Buena Vista is a municipality in Orange County, East Central Florida. It is home to Downtown Disney, Typhoon Lagoon, the headquarters of the Amateur Athletic Union (
AAU), Reedy Creek Improvement District, and most notably the headquarters of the Walt Disney World Resort. It is one of two Florida municipalities, founded on July 3, 1969, controlled by The Walt Disney Company, the other being Bay Lake. Lake Buena Vista is sited southwest of Orlando, between Orlando and Kissimmee, along the Interstate 4 corridor. Walt Disney’s original plan for Lake Buena Vista included at least one futuristic living area, but was never built. This futuristic idea was later used at Epcot.
