Of course, the first thing anyone notices is the bright red cowboy hat perched on top. It wasn\u2019t there originally. Locals say that after rival Paris, Tennessee, built a tower a smidge taller, Texans did what Texans do\u2014we added a hat and claimed victory.<\/p>\n
With the topper, our tower clocks in at 65 feet, proudly earning the title of second-tallest Eiffel Tower in a city named Paris. (The French original stands about 16 times that height at more than 1,000 feet, so first place wasn\u2019t exactly in reach.)<\/p>\n
Up close, it looks a bit like a radio antenna\u2019s artsy cousin who studied abroad, but the vibe is pure Parisian picnic. Families sprawled in the grass, kids craned their necks to the top, and couples kissed beneath its steel beams as if the Seine were flowing nearby.<\/p>\n
So if you find yourself in Northeast Texas, make the detour. And remember\u2014when in Paris (Texas), the dress code is cowboy casual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Of course, the first thing anyone notices is the bright red cowboy hat perched on top. It wasn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41146,2604,46127,430,27,29,28,6208],"class_list":["post-100659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-chet-garner","tag-east-texas","tag-hit-the-road","tag-north-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}