Illumination Tower — Attraction in Niagara Falls

Great stop along with Winter Festival of Lights during the holidays. The Illumination tower is accessible but most paths are not taken care of during the winter, meaning that you have to walk around if you want to take photos with the incredible light displays.

The scenery is also quite well done with an excellent selection of floral and fauna.

The tower often goes unnoticed as many people don't know what purpose it serves. I'd love to take a tour or read about it more as I am seeing other reviews mentioning...

Ever wondered how the Niagara Falls lights up with Canadian flag colour at night? Illumination Tower is the place from where they project different lights on to the falls. There is light show in the evening and almost throughout the year after sun down. If you plan a trip to Niagara make sure you stay atleast one night to enjoy this light show or visit Falls in the late evening and...

My photos are from c. 1963 or so. My brothers and myself got to operate the motors that moved the gels and changed the colors of the lights on the falls. The operator was listening to the Stanley Cup Finals and if he could get someone else to change the colors he could listen without that distraction! Dad took photos of us in front of the building...