As you enter Artists' Gate at Central Park
South, you will soon see a winding path to
the left that leads up to a hill. At the top,
stands a rustic shelter called Cop Cot,
Anglo-Saxon for "hill top cottage."
Situated on a bedrock outcropping overlooking
Center Drive below, Cop Cot is the Park’s
largest rustic wood structure. This current
shelter is a 1985 replica of one built in the
early 1860s. It is a place for relaxing, reading
or enjoying a quick meal outdoors.
In the spring when the many Black Locust
trees, which surround the shelter, are in
full bloom the area is filled with their sweet
scented fragrance.
This scenic atmosphere also offers a unique
display of rare desert plants, such as the
Yucca or Spanish Bayonet, which can be
found on Cop Cot's southern slope.
