Vista Rock is an outcropping of schist located in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It is one of the park's highest natural elevations with Summit Park, as it stands 130 feet. The natural rock was tunneled through for the innovative sunken transverse roadway that still carries commercial and other traffic unobtrusively through the Park.
At the core of Central Park, Vista Rock offers a clear view over Turtle Pond and Delacorte Theater. In 1867, one of the designers of Central Park, Calvert Vaux, decided to develop this area by building Belvedere Castle on the top of the rock, overlooking the Croton reservoir, site of the Great Lawn.
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