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Wikipedia: The Ramble and Lake in Central Park together form an inseparable central feature of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's "Greensward" plan (1857) to provide a Central Park for New York City. The Ramble was intended as a woodland walk through highly varied topography, a "wild garden" away from carriage drives and bridle paths, to be wandered in, or to be viewed as a "natural" landscape from the formal lakefront setting of Bethesda Terrace (illustration below) or from rented rowboats on the Lake. The 38-acre (150,000 m) Ramble embraces the deep coves of the north shore of the Lake, excavated between bands of bedrock; it offers dense naturalistic planting, rocky outcrops of glacially-scarred Manhattan bedrock, small open glades and an artificial stream, The Gill, that empties through the Azalea Pond, then down a cascade into the Lake.
![[Lower Bethesda Terrace, east end of The Lake, and Loeb Boathouse]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Laketerrace_s.jpg "Lower Bethesda Terrace, east end of The Lake, and Loeb Boathouse")
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![[Bow Bridge over the Lake in Central Park.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Bowbridge_wiki_s.jpg "Bow Bridge over the Lake in Central Park.")
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![[East end of The Lake, Ramble on left, Boathouse in distance, Bethesda Terrace foreground]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cplakehouse_s.jpg "East end of The Lake, Ramble on left, Boathouse in distance, Bethesda Terrace foreground")
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