Sheep Meadow is a 15-acre (61,000 m2) meadow near the southwestern section of Central Park, between West 66th and 69th Streets in Manhattan, New York City. It is adjacent to Central Park Mall to the east, The Ramble and Lake to the north, West Drive to the west, and Heckscher Playground and Ballfields to the south.
Parkgoers enjoying Sheep Meadow in April 2004.
Grazing sheep in the first quarter of the 20th century
Seen in 2007
The southern portion of Sheep Meadow with rock outcrops
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016.
Aerial view of southern Central Park (2014)
Panoramic view of Central Park from Rockefeller Center
Central Park in 2004
Randel's surveying bolt