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Ride the Central Park loop on your smart trainer

The whole loop of the park drives, the way they run: down the West Drive, across the south end, up the East Drive and over Harlem Hill.

Ride Central Park Loop free Download the GPX

In Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop, with a smart trainer or on the keys. No subscription, no card. The iPhone app is coming.

Distance
9.7 km 6.0 mi
Climbing
91 m 299 ft
Highest point
51 m 167 ft
Steepest 200 m
6.2%
At 45 minutes a ride
one ride
41 m → 38 mhighest 51 m · lowest 16 m
0 km5 km9.7 km
The road's height from West 72nd Street to West 72nd Street, each stretch in its gradient's colour: blue downhill, sand flat, amber gentle, coral steep.

Along the way

  1. 0.0 km 0.0 mi West 72nd Street
  2. 3.8 km 2.4 mi The Reservoir
  3. 5.7 km 3.5 mi Harlem Hill
  4. 9.7 km 6.0 mi West 72nd Street

About the road

Central Park's drives have been closed to cars since 2018, and the full loop is where New York goes to ride. This road starts on the West Drive by 72nd Street and goes round the way the drives run: south to the bottom of the park, up the East Drive past Cat Hill and the Reservoir, then over Harlem Hill at the north end and back down the west side.

Harlem Hill is the climb people talk about. It is short, but it comes round on every lap.

Also known as Central Park Drive, the park loop, West Drive and East Drive.

How to ride it on your trainer

  1. Open longvoie in Chrome or Edge on a laptop or desktop. It is free: an email and a code to sign in, no password, no card.
  2. Connect your trainer: any smart trainer that speaks FTMS (Wahoo, Tacx, Elite…), or a power meter, and a heart-rate strap if you have one. No trainer yet? Ride on the keys.
  3. Pick Central Park Loop. longvoie sets your trainer's resistance as the road climbs and eases it as it falls, and you ride it in 3D, on the real street.
  4. Stop whenever you like. Your next ride starts from the metre you stopped at.
Your usual rideCentral Park Loop takes
30 minutesone ride
45 minutesone ride
60 minutesone ride
90 minutesone ride

At three or four rides a week, and a steady 25 km/h plus an hour for every 1,000 m up.

Take the road with you

The route is free to download as a GPX file, for your bike computer, Komoot, Strava or another trainer app: central-park-loop.gpx.

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Route © OpenStreetMap contributors, under the Open Database License. Heights from the Copernicus DEM, through Open-Meteo.