Prospect Park Tour: Making the Waterways

Join Turnstile Tours and Prospect Park Alliance for an inside look at the Waterways of Brooklyn’s Backyard on this special Archtober tour.

Prospect Park is an engineering marvel, designed around an ingenious drainage system and a chain of manmade streams and ponds that terminate in Brooklyn’s only lake. This tour will follow the park’s scenic watercourse and delve into how Prospect Park Alliance maintains and supports this complex system. The tour will end at one of the most unique features of the park: the 1869 Wellhouse, the park’s last remaining building by park designer Calvert Vaux, which once housed the machinery that powered the watercourse and has been restored by the Alliance and converted into a composting restroom.