CN Tower
The CN Tower (French: Tour CN) is a 553.3 m-high (1,815.3 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Completed in 1976, it is located in downtown Toronto, built on the former Railway Lands. Its name "CN" referred to Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower.
SkyPod is the highest observation platform in the Western Hemisphere. From up here, 33 storeys higher than the Main Observation Level and 447 metres (1,465 feet) above the ground, you can feel the Tower sway in the wind.
On a clear day, you can see as far as 160 kilometres (100 miles) from SkyPod—all the way to Niagara Falls and into New York State.
The antenna on top of SkyPod is longer than a football field and gets struck by lightning on an average of 75 times per year.
The CN Tower sways in the wind. At the SkyPod level, it can sway by almost half a metre (1.5 feet)!
116 storeys up, walking along the outside edge of the CN Tower’s main pod, secured by only a harness—EdgeWalk is an experience like no other. Since opening in 2011, EdgeWalk has thrilled thousands and marked major milestones for guests of all kinds. Do you have what it takes to walk the Walk?
Step off our high-speed elevators on the Main Observation Level, and you’ll be 346 metres (1,136 feet) above ground. Our window walls give guests of every height the chance to see the full sweep of the cityscape, the perfect setting for taking photos and making memories.
Our window walls are heavy duty: each panel weighs nearly half a metric tonne (988 pounds) and is nearly 7 centimetres (2.75 inches) thick!
There’s a time capsule embedded in our Main Observation Level that is to be opened on the Tower’s 100th birthday in 2076.
The land that the CN Tower stands on was reclaimed from Lake Ontario, the shores and waters of which were a meeting place for many Nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. And now, this land is home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (MCFN), and the Williams Treaties signed with multiple Mississaugas and Chippewa Bands.
