![]() If you’re heading out to Reunion Tower, make sure you read about our experience at Cloud Nine and Five Sixty first! Both restaurants offered different experiences – find out which one is right for you! If you’ve ever wondered about the many light show displays on Reunion Tower, the touch-screens will share information on those, too! We also found out about an interactive app on one of the touch-screens… Soon, visitors will be able to create their own light show with the touch of a few fingers! My children loved this feature and I think they could have spent all afternoon playing with this! Through the touch-screen, you can zoom in close (which is good to know! Watch what you’re doing when you’re in downtown Dallas! You never know who’s watching from above!) The touch-screen also allows you to take a tour of Dallas with the interactive maps. If you’d rather stay inside, you can still get up close to the unsuspecting people and birds through one of the many high-definition cameras on the touch-screen interface, all live during the Geo-Deck’s operating hours. If you looked through the high-powered telescopes (outside), you could see these attractions much closer, watching birds and people as they pass by. Since it was a rather clear day, we saw AT&T Stadium, the Trinity River, the sky-line of Fort Worth and Medieval Times. I was excited to go up to the Geo-Deck and my children were, too! We soon found out the observation deck would allow us to view landscapes from an entirely new perspective. Eventually, a police cruiser with a public-address system was dispatched to Stemmons Freeway to admonish drivers to keep moving. Police and fire switchboards were overloaded for 15 minutes. But within an hour and a half of the opening, traffic on highways leading to downtown came to a halt. Local police officials were asked if the lighted ball would distract motorists. There are 259 custom LED light fixtures at the intersections of the aluminum struts that form the dome.It takes about 60 seconds to go up to the Geo-Deck, which is 470 feet high.Wolfgang Puck’s Five Sixty and Cloud Nine (also managed by Wolfgang Puck) Two restaurants can be found inside the tower.On a clear day you can see Fort Worth, thirty-two miles away. The floor of Five Sixty rotates at a speed of one revolution per hour.At 560 feet tall, Reunion Tower is the fifteenth tallest building in Dallas.We found out many interesting facts about the tower on our tour: Many look forward to the tower’s light display from the freeway, which is easy to spot if you’re traveling at night. Reunion Tower, and it’s adjacent hotel, the Hyatt, are seen everyday, by thousands of travelers from near and far. My children used to refer to it as “the ball”, but we found out there’s so much more to “the ball”, once you’re inside. ![]() Living close to Dallas, there is one iconic building we pass by often: Reunion Tower. ![]()
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