Eiffel Tower, Paris, Texas
On a recent drive home to Kansas City from a wedding in northeast Texas, we detoured to gawk at the Eiffel Tower replica in Paris, Texas. Ok, I’m the only one of the three of us to gawk…I have this thing for oddball roadside attractions.
This Eiffel Tower isn’t the tallest replica in the world, but it’s the only one sporting a cowboy hat. Following a tradition of American cities named “Paris”, Paris, Texas constructed a 65-foot (20 m) replica of the Eiffel Tower in 1993. Paris, Tennessee, dedicated an Eiffel Tower replica in the same year that was 60 feet tall. (The Tennessee version was moved from Memphis and refurbished in its new Paris location in 1993.) The cowboy hat insures that the Paris, Texas, tower stands taller.
Both replicas are dwarfed by the 540-foot-tall Eiffel Tower replica along the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, built in 1999. The original in Paris, France, is 984 feet tall.
Paris, Texas, calls itself the “Second Largest Paris in the World.” The town boasts 25,171 residents, as of the 2010 census.
Last year, we visited Paris, Arkansas, which doesn’t have an Eiffel Tower replica, but it does have a mural that depicts the Eiffel Tower, which you can read about and see in my blog post here: Every Paris Needs an Eiffel Tower The post also lists other states with Eiffel Tower replicas and other states with a town named Paris.
Eiffel Tower Replicas Around The World
Catherine Sherman 
I know, first hand, how much you love oddball roadside attractions. I’m thinking, right this minute, of the hot/cold water towers…hahaha!! I found something similar in Cedar Rapids. They have the Statue of Liberty.
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Yes, I loved those hot and cold water towers so much that I went to Canton twice! We need to hit the road again soon.
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Love the hat!!!
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Reblogged this on sweatingthewriting.
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That really is a ‘tongue in cheek’ replica… Very cute indeed, Catherine.
I visited Paris during 2012. What a surprise the Eiffel Tower was. I’d seen lots of pics; however, nothing could have prepared me for the real thing. What an enormous and strong structure it is. We dined in the restaurant (very expensive, though a once in a lifetime opportunity – not to be missed, we thought).
And to think it was only meant to be kept for twenty years!
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Thanks for posting, I hadn’t even known that there was a replica 🙂
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Come back to Paris Arkansas! We now have an Eiffel Tower.
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