Central Park Walk: The Mall, Bethesda Fountain, Strawberry Fields

Central Park isn’t just the most-visited urban park in the US. It’s home to Strawberry Fields, Poet’s Walk, and the most pampered trees in America. It’s also the backdrop of once-in-a-lifetime incidents like the Great Zoo Escape of 1874.

This self-guided walking tour isn’t just a walk in the park, it’s a stroll through time with tales of love, loss, laughter, treachery and tragedy at every turn.

We’ve curated the best of the best into one walk, so you can make the most of this enormous park in 90 minutes. You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Bear witness to John Lennon’s murder and pay your respects at the Imagine Mosaic in Strawberry Fields
• Feel like you are there on the sled getting frostbite as Balto saves Nome, Alaska... then learn why Balto is actually the wrong dog!
• Decode the symbols of Bethesda Terrace
• Weep at the heartbreaking love story of the Bethesda Angel
• Learn how Shakespeare gave us deadly riots and invasive species
• Spot the hidden witch
• See famous filming locations from hundreds of TV shows and movies and learn which stars live in which buildings along the park
• Meet some of the 39 eccentric widows of the Plaza Hotel – and Eloise, the tiny terrorist!
• Discover why the Pulitzer Fountain is actually a giant washing machine
• See how Central Park’s design inspired the US Interstate highway system

Join us on this walk through time to hear how and why Central Park was built, in the words of its legendary creators.

CREDITS: The added voices are actual quotes, typically performed by actors. And by actors we mean our dear friends and neighbors who work for beer & wine: Peter Collery, Tom Eich, Mattie Goldberg, Clayton Hemmert, Matt Jones, Clara Marshall, Hugh Osborn, Paul Safsel, Beth and Jeremy Saks, Madeleine Sweeny, Terry and Susan Taylor, Bob Tracy, Lisa Wagner, Claudia Wallis, Josh Wallach, John Williams.