New growth in the Ramble.
Bird Sanctuary.
Red tailed hawk eating lunch.
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Tavern on the Green
Sheep Meadow
15 Central Park West
Trump International Hotel and Tower
Heckscher Playground
Columbus Circle
Wollman Ice Rink
Carousel
Check and Checker’s House
66th St Transverse
Dairy
Central Park Mall (Exterior)
Balto
SummerStage
Victorian Gardens
Bethesda Fountain
Cherry Hill (Views of the Lake)
The Mall and Cathedral of Trees
Bandshell
Bethesda Fountain
Bethesda Arcade
The Bow Bridge
The Lake
“Friends Fountain”
The Ramble (Bird Sanctuary)
Rustic House
Daniel Webster
The Falconer
Strawberry Fields
The Imagine Monument
The Dakota Building (Home of John Lennon)
Museum of Natural History
Diana Ross Playground
Seneca Village (1825 settlement of African American Property Owners)
Winterdale Arch
Shakespear Garden
Delacorte Theater
Belvedere Castle
Hernshed
The Lady’s Pavilion (North side of lake)
Rustic Overlook
DESCRIPTION:
Now it gets interesting. This full two hour tour builds on everything experienced in the Deluxe Loop, and then we go further. We explore the Ramble, the bird sanctuary of Central Park. This was the first area of the park constructed and it is designed to be an idilic natural landscape. Over 200 species of birds, the gorge, streams, rock outcroppings. You will feel as if walking in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains. On this leg of the tour we completely forget we are in New York City. We then ride north by the Museum of Natural History, Seneca Village and Diana Ross playground. Our destination is Belvedere Castle, the literal high point of the park. Here we will climb to the top to get a 360° view of the park’s delights including the Great Lawn, the Reservoir, even the Delacorte Theater where they hold Shakespeare in the Park. Riding back down south we will visit the Lady’s Pavilion on the North end of the lake. There we will explore rock outcroppings for stunning views of the new mega sky scrapers along the south end of the park. This will be a day you will never forget!