Public restrooms are located throughout Central Park at attractions, landmarks and playgrounds. Below you’ll find hours, wheelchair accessibility and the details that matter — including which ones close for the winter.
Two questions. We'll tell you the closest one and whether it's open.
Public restrooms
Wheelchair accessible
Typical hours
Close for winter
Most of the park’s restrooms open daily throughout the year, typically from 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning until dusk. Hours shorten in winter simply because dusk arrives earlier.
Tavern on the Green, Bethesda Terrace, Robert Bendheim Playground and Great Hill open late March through early November only. Come in January and those four are closed — plan around them.
Nineteen of the twenty-one are wheelchair accessible. The two that aren’t are the Ramble and Wollman Rink. The Met and the Davis Center also offer all-gender facilities.
Most restrooms in the park are open all year and step-free. A handful aren’t, and those are the ones worth knowing about before you need one.
All twenty-one, in order from the southern gates to the Harlem Meer. Filter by season, access or where you are.
W 61st St & Central Park West
67th Street & Central Park West
W 61st St & Central Park West
60th Street along Center Drive
Mid-park, 73rd to 79th Streets
110th Street at Lenox Avenue
The park is well provided for, but not uniformly. These four catch visitors out more than anything else.
Most restrooms run from around 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning until dusk, which in December means closing before five. The Delacorte opens earliest at 6:00 AM, and the Davis Center stays open latest at 9:30 PM — worth knowing on a long summer evening.
Tavern on the Green, Bethesda Terrace, Robert Bendheim Playground and Great Hill open late March through early November only. Bethesda in particular catches people out, because it is one of the busiest spots in the park all year round.
Nineteen of the twenty-one restrooms are wheelchair accessible. The exceptions are the Ramble and Wollman Rink. If step-free access matters, the Boathouse, Mineral Springs and the Delacorte cover the middle of the park between them.
The Wollman Rink and Central Park Zoo restrooms sit inside paid attractions, so you need a ticket to reach them. The Met is the opposite — its restrooms are reachable without an admission ticket via the Uris Center entrance, though everyone goes through a security check.
Either side of the staircase. Late March to early November only — closed in winter.
Every entry in the directory above tells you these three. They are the difference between a short walk and a long one.
Dusk is the operative word — closing time moves with the season, so the same restroom shuts at 4:30 in December and 8:30 in June.
Late March through early November for Tavern on the Green, Bethesda Terrace, Robert Bendheim Playground and Great Hill. The other seventeen are open all year.
Wheelchair accessible almost everywhere. Two locations aren’t, and two offer all-gender facilities.
Twenty-one public restrooms across the park, at attractions, landmarks and playgrounds. Nineteen are wheelchair accessible and two offer all-gender facilities.
Most run from around 7:00 or 7:30 in the morning until dusk, which means they close considerably earlier in winter. The Delacorte Theater opens earliest at 6:00 AM. The Davis Center stays open latest, until 9:30 PM daily.
Four are seasonal, open late March through early November only: Tavern on the Green, Bethesda Terrace, Robert Bendheim Playground and Great Hill. The remaining seventeen are open all year.
Almost all of them. The exceptions are Wollman Rink and the Central Park Zoo, whose restrooms sit inside paid attractions — you need a ticket to reach those two.
Nineteen of the twenty-one. The two that are not are the Ramble and Wollman Rink. If step-free access matters, the Boathouse at 74th, Mineral Springs at 69th and the Delacorte at 80th cover the middle of the park between them.
Two. The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers an all-gender option, as does the Davis Center — which also has gender-neutral shower rooms available during the summer pool season.
Yes. They are reachable via the Uris Education Center entrance at 81st Street and Fifth Avenue, and an admission ticket is not required. All visitors go through a security check first, and the Museum is closed on Wednesdays.
Use the map above — each pin shows the closest restroom to that part of the park, with its hours and whether it is step-free. As a rule of thumb there is one within about a ten-minute walk of anywhere in the park.
Tell us where you’re going and who you’re with. We’ll map the restrooms, the water fountains and the step-free routes along the way.
