KVLY TV tower — Local services in Mayville

It's really awesome to see the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere, it also somewhat amazes me that they haven't made more of a "tourist" attraction out of it, personally I'd love a t-shirt or something saying "I stood next to the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere".... besides the mast and a small building there is literally nothing else around, but to me it was still very much worth making the trek from Fargo to see it.

Heads up: It is on a very narrow gravel road, so I wouldn't recommend trying to get up close to it in bad weather...

Originally 2063 feet tall, it was the tallest structure in the world from its completion in 1963 until an antenna that was 2121 feet tall was built in Poland in 1974 that was known as the Warsaw Radio Mast. When the Polish antenna unfortunately collapsed 1991 during maintenance, KVLY once again held the title of tallest structure on earth all the way until 2010 when a skyscraper in Dubai known as the Burj Khalifa was completed and stole the title. You're probably just as surprised as I was when I found out this antenna is somewhat of a...

Visited in June 2024. What's not to like about a super tall TV antenna? It's 2063 feet high. Completed in 1963, it was the tallest structure in the world until succeeded by the Warsaw radio mast in 1974. When the Warsaw mast collapsed in 1991, the KVLY-TV mast was once again the tallest structure in the world until the Burj Khalifa exceeded it in 2008. It remains the fourth-tallest structure in the world, the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere, and the second tallest broadcasting mast in the world. WOW! And in rural North...