The current exit and original entrance is on a part of the island that has few attractions and is therefore not something that kids like to frequent all that often. Beth Morrow 12 JAN 98 Injun Joe's cave used to be pitch black inside when I was a little kid. If you look from Tom Sawyer's Island after you cross the floating bridge,there's a old train that sits across the Rivers of America that has a gopher that pops up in the cars behind the train. Incidentally, the engine attached to those cars was an original engine from the old Mine Train through Nature's Wonderland that once operated where Big Thunder is now. Also, the waterfall was part of the Mine Train excursion, and was called Big Thunderer.
Marmots are large rodents that live in the rocks in the western U.S. mountains.
They are actually burning steel rods that they made to look like wood. One of the cast members at Disneyland told me that there is an elevator which goes underneath the front part of Tom Sawyer's Island. She said that this is where they store all of the equipment for the Fantasmic show. It was very windy on that day, so there were probably concerns that the surrounding trees would catch fire. The cabin was once again burning on the 10th.