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Category 10 Construction Walls Now Block CityWalk's Main Walkway to Islands of Adventure, Sending Guests Around the Back
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Category 10 Construction Walls Now Block CityWalk's Main Walkway to Islands of Adventure, Sending Guests Around the Back

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Heading from CityWalk to Universal Islands of Adventure? The main walkway to the park is walled off. The construction walls around Luke Combs' Category 10 have grown until, in the words of WDW News Today, they "completely block the main walkway to the theme park's entrance."

You can still walk to the park. You just go the back way now, through the rear of CityWalk.

Purple construction walls printed with the Luke Combs' Category 10 logo and two building renderings under a Coming to CityWalk Late 2027 banner, with the Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville sign on the left and a crane rising behind the wall

The Category 10 walls beside Margaritaville, with the Islands of Adventure lighthouse and a crane behind them. Photo: WDW News Today

The detour, step by step

Here is the route, as WDW News Today describes it:

  • Where it starts: the walls begin right beside the Cinnabon kiosk, so that is where the old route is cut off.
  • Head to the back of CityWalk: a sign sends you down the walkway between the Universal Legacy Store and Bigfire.
  • Turn at Antojitos: when you reach Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food, turn back toward the lagoon.
  • Back down to the water: the path runs down between Bigfire and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville. Two temporary ramps handle wheelchair and stroller access here, a job the main walkway normally does.
  • Along the walls: outside Margaritaville, the walls leave a narrow path past the construction zone.
  • Where it ends: the walls stop at Lone Palm Airport, just before the bridge to Islands of Adventure.

A purple Universal Islands of Adventure Entrance sandwich-board sign with an upward arrow on the CityWalk pavement, with the Antojitos building and a Bigfire bar sign in the background

A sign on the detour pointing guests toward the Islands of Adventure entrance, with Antojitos and Bigfire behind it. Photo: WDW News Today

Guests walk along a gray temporary ramp with metal railings beside a brick walkway, with construction walls and a yellow crane on the right

One of the two temporary ramps on the detour. Photo: WDW News Today

A crowd of guests walks a narrow path between a building and a tall dark construction wall, with the Lone Palm Airport seaplane and palm trees ahead

The narrow path along the construction walls, with the Lone Palm Airport seaplane up ahead. Photo: WDW News Today

WDW News Today also marked up a CityWalk map: yellow traces the route guests can walk, and red shows the construction site. On that map, the red block runs along the lagoon edge. The yellow route loops around the back of a building first, then runs between the red block and the buildings to the bridge.

An overhead illustrated map of CityWalk with a yellow line tracing the detour route and a red rectangle marking the construction site along the waterfront, ending near the seaplane at the bridge

The detour in yellow and the Category 10 site in red. Map annotation: WDW News Today

Plan for the detour

WDW News Today does not say how much time the detour adds. Going by its map, the route bends around the back of CityWalk before it reaches the narrow stretch along the walls. If you are pushing a stroller or using a wheelchair, the two temporary ramps are there to keep the route accessible.

What is going up behind the walls

Category 10 is Luke Combs' music, food and drink venue, and it is scheduled to open in late 2027. Orlando will be the third Category 10, after Nashville and Las Vegas. According to WDW News Today, the venue is planned around waterfront views and live music, with food and drinks served across a number of separate entertainment areas.

In September, we looked at the concept art printed on these same walls, where the renderings did not agree on what the building will look like. The walls have now moved out far enough to change how people get to a theme park.

Have you walked the new route yet? Tell us how long it took you.

Sources

Image credits: WDW News Today (all photos and the annotated CityWalk map).

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Check out our guides for more on each place in this story:

CityWalk Islands of Adventure Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Bigfire Cinnabon Lone Palm Airport Universal Legacy Store

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