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Top o' Texas Tower
Observation Tower at State Fair of Texas, Dallas, Texas. Opened 2013.
- Height
- 500 ft
- Drop
- n/a
- Top speed
- n/a
- Length
- n/a
- Inversions
- n/a
- Ride time
- n/a
- Designer
- Intamin
Top o' Texas Tower is an observation tower ride on the State Fair of Texas Midway at Fair Park in Dallas. The fair describes it as soaring 500 feet into the air, and lists it with the Texas Star Ferris wheel as one of the Midway's signature rides.
The tower was built by the ride manufacturer Intamin, whose factory in Germany produced its gondolas in 2012. At 500 feet it is more than twice the height of the nearby Texas Star. It opened in 2013, the year after Fair Park's Big Tex statue burned, and is the tallest structure on the Midway.
Sources
- bigtex.com/plan-your-visit/attractions-events/midway (Official: the 500-ft. Top o' Texas Tower on the Midway, soaring 500 feet into the air, listed with the 212-ft. Texas Star.)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Fair_of_Texas (Wikipedia: Top o' Texas Tower, a 500-foot observation tower, opened in 2013; Big Tex burned in 2012.)
- parkworld-online.com/the-state-fair-that-never-stops (Park World, November 17, 2012: Top o' Texas Tower, a 500ft-tall Intamin observation tower, more than twice the height of the Texas Star Ferris Wheel.)
- dallasnews.com/news/2012/07/05/with-arrival-of-500-foot-towe... (Dallas Morning News, July 2012 (headline and search summary): tower gondolas built at Intamin's factory in Germany; planned May 4, 2013 Summer Adventures opening.)
Numbers are from the ride's manufacturer and park where published; "n/a" means we have not confirmed that number yet. Spotted an error? Tell us.