The San Diego SkyTower is a 320-foot (98 m) gyro tower that was constructed in 1968 by Sansei Yusoki Co., Ltd of Japan.

[1] It opened in 1969 and gives passengers a six-minute view of SeaWorld and San Diego while rising at a rate of 150 feet per minute (46 m/min) while spinning slowly at 1.02 rpm.

SkyTower is lit with an array of Electronic Theater Control's LEDs as of February 2013.

The highest point of the structure which includes the topping flagpole is 425 feet (130 m).

On December 22, 2015, at the height of the Christmas travel season, the Orlando SkyTower became stuck, 200 feet up.