It's a bit shorter than I expected. I guess the measurement is including the height of the roof and not just the height of the fence. My own fault I guess, I should have combed the details more thoroughly. Was a bit too much for me to build on my own but my husband, son, and neighbor put it up in an afternoon. It seems sturdy enough to contain my rottweiler pup for now but we will probably get something else in the future.