Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Tip: Rent bicycles, rowboats, and gondolas from the Boathouse, and skates at the Wollman Rink.
Tip: Refreshments and light lunches are available at the Boat House snack bar; The Boat House
restaurant serves gourmet meals.
Creating Central Park
Central Park was the first landscaping project for Frederick Law Olmsted,
who was already 43 years old. Rejecting the usual formal plantings, he cre-
ated passages of contrasting scenery, calm and pastoral against the rugged
and picturesque. Areas for active and passive recreation were separated,
and dense raised plantings shut out the surrounding city. The park brought
Olmsted high praise and set a pattern for landscapes that followed. He went
on to become America's most prolific designer of parks.
Visitor Information
• From Central Park South to 110th St & between 5th Ave and Central
Park West.
www.centralparknyc.org
• Open dawn-dusk
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