Tucked away into a shady corner of the Lake, Wagner Cove features a small rustic wood shelter

Cherry Hill offers a Bethesda Terrace experience in miniature. From the rise of Cherry Hill, you also can see across the Lake to the Ramble. And the Cherry Hill Fountain serves as a decorative arts destination in its own right.

Jacob Wrey Mould, Calvert Vaux's assistant, designed the decorative elements for Bethesda Terrace in 1859, and in 1860 the fountain at Cherry Hill with its ornamental finial on the top, the gilded cups brimming over with water, the frosted glass globes for lighting, a sculpted bluestone basin inset with Minton tiles — all in the service of a watering trough for horses. Cherry Hill was intended to be a scenic turn-around for carriages, a place to admire the surrounding cherry trees in springtime bloom and take in the lakeside view.

Today Cherry Hill is a restful destination for sunbathing or reading. A short walk west down a nearby slope leads to Wagner Cove, one of Central Park's hidden oases of calm. Tucked away into a shady corner of the Lake, the Cove features a small rustic wood shelter. The original shelters date from the Park's first years, when rowboats would crisscross the Lake, picking up passengers at one of six shelters that dotted the edge of the Lake and dropping them off at another. .

Location

• West of Bethesda Terrace Mid-Park at 72nd Street

In 1981 and 1998, the Conservancy carried out restorations of Cherry Hill Fountain.

The cove is a memorial to the late New York City mayor Robert Wagner.