Planning a trip to Walden Pond to go swimming? You might want to reconsider. Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation officials said that the beach popularized by Henry David Thoreau ...

The main beach at Walden Pond will be closed for the 2025 summer season. The Department of Conservation and Recreation says construction work on a new bathhouse at the famous swimming spot in Concord, ...

A half-an-hour drive from Boston, Massachusetts, in the town of Concord, sits one of the most revered literary landscapes in the world: the 2,680-acre Walden Woods and Walden Pond State Reservation.

SYMBOL OF WOODED SERENITY THAN WALDEN POND IN CONCORD. VISITORS THE WORLD OVER ENJOY THE CLEAR WATERS OF THE POND. THE DEEPEST, NATURALLY FORMED BODY OF FRESH WATER IN MASSACHUSETTS. TODAY, YOU’RE AT ...

Human activity around the pristine pond where Henry David Thoreau wrote his famous book Walden, or, Life in the Woods is altering its ecosystem, new research finds. Leslie Katz led a team that ...

NOT SITTING WELL WITH A LOT OF PEOP. >> MANY HERE NOT ON BOARD. THEY ACKNOWLEDGEDHE T STRING OF DROWNINGS, BUT SAY THIS IS NOT THE SOLUTION. >> IT SEEMS LIKE A BIZARRE DECISION TO ME. >> IT MAKE SENSE ...

Walden Pond State Reservation is located at 915 Walden St., Concord. Events are free and open to the public. Regular parking fees — $8 Massachusetts plates, $15 out-of-state plates — do apply. For ...

The mecca of Massachusetts open-water swimming has been roped off and regulated in response to a spike in drownings statewide, and Walden Pond regulars are now calling on the state to reverse its ban ...

“It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar,” writes Henry David Thoreau in one of the less-quoted parts of Walden Pond. But is it, I wonder, worth it to go to the ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...