Ladies Mile
Active Member
Central Park is a great urban park mostly because of where it's located, rather than the merits of the park itself.
Central Park is the single greatest work of architecture in New York City. It would be equally brilliant in the middle of a cow field in Saskatoon. Its creation of micro-landscapes, layering of sports & culture facilities and dramatic reveals is unmatched by any park its size or era with the possible exception of Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Mount Royal Park in Montreal, both by the same firm.
High Park is wonderful too, and perhaps much more Torontonian in its backyard-to-forest charms but to think Central Park's admittedly dramatic location is even the first thing is has to offer simply suggests that you have never visited it.