The Perfect Prospect Park Walking Tour
Look at this log-traced “staircase”! At the bottom of it, you might notice the fence that’s been on your left this whole trail. That’s the border of the small Quaker-run Friends Cemetery, which is privately controlled (it predates the park) and rarely opened to the public. If you keep your eyes open, though, you’ll be able to make out a few tombstones around here.
The trail lets out here onto another main path, Center Drive. Make a right and walk several yards; near the nearby the intersection you’ll see a staircase to your left:
Walk up it! Phew, what a tall staircase! It’ll take you up to the highest point in Prospect Park, the apex of Lookout Hill. What gorgeous reward awaits you at the summit? Nothing! Perhaps one of the biggest disappointments in the park is this anticlimax—that there’s no awesome plaza or something up here. In the summer, there is a wide fenced-off field of overgrown wild flowers and weeds, which is sort of charming. Circumnavigate this field southwesterly.
There are at least some cool stone staircases up here. You’re pretty high up!
So there are some stunning vistas of the lake below, though these views are often obscured by trees (and thus difficult to photograph, ok? But not to see with the naked eye, especially in winter. Go see for yourself!).
