Edge Walk On The CN Tower: Most Exhilarating Experience In Toronto

Sep. 6, 2011 by Matt van Vuuren

Walking on the edge of the CN Tower, world's tallest tower, was one of the most exhilarating things I have ever done. Leaning forward and backward over the edge aren't for the faint of heart.

On the roof of the CN Tower's restaurant 356m/1,168ft above the ground! That's right – way up there – way out there!

Tickets were $175 + tax and include keepsake video, photos, certificate of achievement and re-entry to CN Tower.

We also received a Total Tower Experience Ticket which included access to the Look Out, Glass Floor, Sky Pod, Movie and Motion Theatre Ride.

We went for dinner that evening at the classy 360 restaurant which was pretty disappointing. The food was overcooked and bland. Although the rotating dinner floor was worth checking out, the restaurant basically goes 360 around the tower so you get to see every part of the city from your dinner table.

It got a little out of control when my brother tried to do a hand-stand on the ledge of the observation deck, he ended up falling against the mesh thank god but he definitely got us all worried.

The CN Tower is a communications and observation tower in Downtown Toronto. Standing 553.33 metres (1,815.4 ft) tall, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world's tallest free-standing structure and world's tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010.

The tower remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto's skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.