
Central Park Walking Tour: The Pond to Belvedere Castle
Follow the paths, bridges and terraces of Olmsted and Vaux’s Greensward plan, from the Pond to Belvedere Castle.
29 walks and 5 drives with a story at every stop.

Follow the paths, bridges and terraces of Olmsted and Vaux’s Greensward plan, from the Pond to Belvedere Castle.

Walk the glowing streets where neighbors turned Christmas decorating into a Brooklyn tradition.

Follow Midtown’s holiday glow from Bryant Park to the Plaza, past wreath-wearing lions and the Rockefeller Center skating rink.

From the Brooklyn Bridge to the harbor, follow the places where New York built upward and a new nation took shape.

Walk from the creek where a British spy was captured to the graves that give Sleepy Hollow its name.
Los Angeles · Pebble Beach · Mill Valley

Walk the boulevard where movie premieres turned into spectacles and sidewalk stars became Hollywood ambitions.

Follow the Pacific from the Pacific Grove Gate to Pebble Beach, passing wave-battered rocks and wind-shaped cypresses.

Walk from a Maybeck clubhouse built by determined women to the redwood grove where the town's first sawmill once stood.
Key West · St. Augustine · Saint Augustine

Walk from the waterfront heart of Old Town to the island’s famous painted buoy.

Walk from the Spanish fort through the old colonial town to the grand hotels that made St. Augustine a winter destination.

Walk from the old fort to the Bridge of Lions through a city where centuries of history linger in stone and soil.

Follow Michigan Avenue’s holiday lights past landmarks that span Chicago’s history, then turn toward State Street’s festive windows.

Follow the Mother Road south from Chicago past diners, service stations and a towering astronaut.

Walk the Loop’s canyons and see how Chicago’s architects made height a symbol of commercial ambition.

Walk from a towering tribute to the Pilgrims down to the waterfront and up the colony’s first street.

Walk the ground where neighbors accused neighbors, where nineteen people were hanged and one pressed to death, and where a town later struggled over…

Walk from the Common to Copp's Hill and meet the merchants, preachers, printers and craftsmen who talked a colony into rebellion.
Williamsburg · Alexandria · Shenandoah National Park

Walk from the college to the Capitol through the heart of Virginia’s colonial capital.

Walk from a slave-trading office to the waterfront through George Washington’s hometown port.

Follow Skyline Drive through a landscape of waterfalls, overlooks and old mountain homes.

Walk from the river bluff through Savannah’s ordered squares, where grand houses hold stories of civic ambition, art and unequal lives.

Savannah's squares hide pirates, plague victims, duels and a famous killing, and each stop here pairs the legend with the record behind it.

Walk among the grand houses built as Americans made a city uptown from Creole New Orleans.

Walk the French Quarter from a grand hotel to an old convent and storied house.

Walk from the rooms where independence was debated to the streets where Philadelphia’s tradespeople lived and worked.

Follow the battle from the ridges west of town to the Union line and the fields fought over on its flanks.

Walk from Charleston’s old market to the Battery, past pastel houses, churches and grand residences.

Walk from the Battery to the Old City Jail, where Charleston’s ghostly reputation meets its surviving streets and stones.

Walk from the Alamo down to the river and into the heart of Spanish San Antonio.

Walk from the Alamo past storied hotels to the river and the heart of colonial San Antonio.
Route 66 in Arizona · Washington · Seattle · Harpers Ferry

From a painted-desert lodge built by the CCC to a gold-rush town where wild burros wander Main Street, this drive follows the Mother Road across…

Walk from the Capitol to the Tidal Basin through the nation’s landscape of memory and debate.

Walk from the market overlooking Elliott Bay to the neighborhood where Seattle rebuilt itself after disaster.

Walk from the meeting of two rivers through a town shaped by industry, rebellion and war.