Central Park
The most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.
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America's first landscaped park, from Olmsted and Vaux's 1858 Greensward Plan — its meadows, woods and lakes were almost entirely constructed in the 1850s and 1860s, not found.
What to look for
- Bethesda Terrace and the Ramble and Lake
- Eight lakes and ponds, all artificial — dammed from natural seeps and flows
- Sheep Meadow, the Central Park Carousel, and Belvedere Castle
Shakespeare in the Park is one of the events staged here, and the Delacorte Theater is among the park's attractions; five visitor centers, including Belvedere Castle and the Dairy, orient you.
Central Park is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Brooklyn BridgeCross the East River on the bridge that was the world's longest suspension span when it opened in 1883 — on a promenade raised 18 feet above the traffic.