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Park News - (10/29/2025) The iconic La Ronde landmark, La Spirale, is now set to be dismantled. The spiraling observation tower was first set up at La Ronde for the 1967 Expo, but it closed during the 2018 season for technical problems, was never reopened due to the COVID pandemic, and now years later, the cost to repair and restore the observation tower after sitting closed for nearly a decade was an financial obstacle that was just much to overcome. In addition to the cost of restoration, which was said to be in the “tens of millions of dollars”, the age of the attraction and unavailability of spare parts was also said to be an issue.
    It’s sad to see a historic attraction like this go, as if they are properly maintained and updated, most can continue to operate for decades to come, as we’ve seen many of the Intamin made observation towers installed at parks in the 60-70’s still running today, such as the Sky Cabin at Knott’s Berry Farm, Kissing Tower at Hersheypark, and the Skytowers at SeaWorld San Diego and Orlando. Unfortunately the Spirale along with the similar Space Spiral at Cedar Point was built by Willy Bühler with cabins provided by Von Roll, both of which are defunct. Of the various Willy Bühler towers built between 1963 and 1970, only two are said to still be in operation today: the Space Tower at the Minnesota State Fair (USA / 1964) and Euroscoop at Euromast (Netherlands / 1970).
   A candidate for the Montreal’s Mayoral race however would like to see to see it saved and restored somehow to maintain it for the heritage of the La Ronde site, which unfortunately since it was given over to privately be managed by Six Flags, they feel that a number of the old Expo site’s more historical items have been removed.

2026 - Nothing is known at this point in time...