World's Wonder View Tower

Genoa, Colorado, United States

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World's Wonder View Tower is a six-story concrete observation tower near Genoa, Colorado, which CBS Colorado (April 2026) describes as 65 feet tall. CBS reports that Charles Gregory opened a gas station and cafe along Highway 24 in 1926 and had the concrete tower built in 1930. The owners say Ripley's Believe It or Not promised that six states could be seen from the top; CBS says Ripley's certified the claim in 1933. A group of Colorado locals took on the site in 2016, and the tower held a reopening weekend on 1-2 May 2026 with reserved timed-entry tickets required that weekend.

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Out on Colorado's Eastern Plains, a 65-foot concrete tower promoted for its view of six states reopened in May 2026 after a ten-year restoration.

A 2026 CBS Colorado report says Charles Gregory opened a gas station and cafe along Highway 24 in 1926, and that by 1930 crews had built the concrete tower. The owners' history says Gregory created a rock complex with a cafe, stage and gas station, later adding guest rooms and the tower. The owners also say that Ripley's Believe It or Not promised in the 1930s that you could see six states from the top; CBS says Ripley's certified in 1933 that Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, New Mexico and South Dakota were visible.

The owners' history says the property was bought by a new family in 1959. CBS says a later owner took the tower in the 1960s and made it a museum of oddities, and that the collections were auctioned off after his death in 2013.

In 2016, the owners say, a group of Colorado locals banded together to save the tower. In 2020 they formed Friends of the Genoa Tower, Inc., a 501(c)(3), and the tower is on the State of Colorado Historic Register. CBS says painters restored the original "See Six States" lettering, the first phase of restoration is complete and a second, covering the rock room and old museum space, has begun.

The owners announced a reopening weekend on 1-2 May 2026 at 30121 Old Hwy 24, Genoa, with reserved timed-entry ticketing required for all guests. The owners listed Friday and Saturday hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Labor Day weekend 2026 and Saturdays only for the rest of September, and the first season ended on September 26, 2026.

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