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 ...

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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.

The Walden Pond oasis has been shut down to swimming because of elevated bacteria levels after the recent deluge of rain. Walden Pond is the latest Massachusetts waterbody that has a “No Swimming” red ...

CONCORD (CBS) -- Swimming at Walden Pond is being restricted to designated areas, frustrating many who enjoy the waters of the famous reservation. The new rules come amid a string of drownings in ...

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 ...

Researchers are looking for ways to save Walden Pond, and they have a request for swimmers: Stop urinating in the water. The group told the Boston Globe urine is providing nutrients to micro-organisms ...

For 150 years, readers of Walden have imagined the place where Henry David Thoreau sought solitude. Actually visiting, however, many have been shocked. Walden Pond is really a lake. Sixty-one watery ...

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