The Eye of the Wind is the 1.5-megawatt working wind turbine at the summit of Grouse Mountain, the only one in the world with a public viewing platform inside the nacelle behind the rotor hub. A glass elevator carries up to 12 visitors at a time 65 metres up the column to a small circular glass-floored room. From inside you watch the blades pass overhead, look directly down at the mountain trails below, and — on a clear day — see across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver Island.
Tickets are sold as an add-on to the Grouse Mountain Skyride. The turbine occasionally has to be feathered (stopped) in extreme weather, which closes the viewing platform; ask at the ticket desk before going up.
Beyond the spectacle, the turbine generates roughly enough electricity to offset Grouse's summer operations, which has been used to justify the building of the structure on protected mountain land. The architecture is unmistakable: a slim white tower with three glass viewing windows along the upper third, visible from most of the lower mainland on clear days.