The theater is a high tech audio and visual experience that culminates with your first glimpse of the skyline. Once you reach the top of the One World Trade Center, rather than being sent directly to the observation deck, you’ll enter the See Forever Theater. Then before you know it, you’ve traveled 102 stories and over 300 years. Go from unsettled lands to the concrete jungle of skyscrapers in just 47 seconds. Starting with the lush green fields and trees that used to encompass Manhattan, you’ll see the growth and development of the city right before your eyes. As you get higher and higher, you travel through time. The sides of the elevator are LED screens. Almost every skyscraper observation deck has a quick journey to the top of the building, and the One World Trade Center observatory elevator, called the SkyPod, is the fastest in North America.Īs a bonus, the elevator ride at OWO also takes you through hundreds of years of New York City history. While technically you can’t avoid riding the elevator, that doesn’t make it any less fun. The skyscrapers you see today would not be possible without it. Hear their inspiring stories about the building before you see it for yourself.įinally, get a close-up look at Foundations, an exhibit showing the Manhattan bedrock on which NYC and the World Trade Center was built. Then you’ll journey through Voices, a walk-through video montage featuring the men and women who designed and built the One World Trade Center. The installation is meant to celebrate the different homelands of each and every visitor. You can see a glimpse of it in the video above. Your experience at the One World Observatory begins at the Global Welcome Center - a video wall that transforms to show different states and countries and welcomes you in multiple languages. Global Welcome Center: Voices and Foundations If you want to know more, I wrote a whole guide to the Oculus, including how it got here and what makes it special. You could grab a bite to eat, check out the retail outlets, or simply explore the incredible architecture. It’s an easy stop on your way into the World Trade Center, before you make your journey to the observatory. The One World Trade Center and Its 9/11 ConnectionĪcross the memorial plaza from One World Trade Center is the Oculus, a transportation hub and shopping mall inside one of New York’s most unique buildings. In this list, I have six things you can (and absolutely should) do during your visit to the One World Observatory.īut first, let me explain how One World Trade Center - and the observatory - got here, and how they’re connected to 9/11 and the sites of Ground Zero. Visiting the memorial, museum and observatory is a great way to spend your morning or afternoon downtown.īesides seeing some of the most beautiful sights in the city from up high, there are quite a few activities you can enjoy while you’re up here.
Since the building is part of the World Trade Center, the entrance to the observatory is only steps away from the 9/11 Memorial Plaza. Stopping by the observatory is an easy add-on when you’re visiting Ground Zero. From the top of the One World Trade Center, guests can marvel at 360-degree views of Manhattan, the East River, the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor, all while staying indoors.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people visit the One World Observatory for that once-in-a-lifetime view of New York City.
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