About 30 beaches in various cities and towns in Massachusetts are closed Sunday. A majority of the 27 beaches were closed due ...

We met Primack on a recent warm and sunny morning at Walden Pond, where as we headed out for a walk he ticked off some of the plant species that have disappeared in this area since Thoreau wrote ...

Tired of the seaweed and the sand when you head to the ocean? You're in luck. One of the best lakes for freshwater swimming in the country is located right here in Massachusetts, according to Reader's ...

Heading into this weekend, 33 Massachusetts beaches are closed. Here's the full list. The following MA beaches, listed by ...

Two dozen beaches are closed for swimming in Massachusetts, mostly because of unsafe levels of bacteria in the water.

A storied part of our national heritage, Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Massachusetts – where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic "Walden" – has been named one of "America's 11 Most Endangered ...

On Aug. 22, 1860, Henry David Thoreau measured the water temperature at the bottom of Walden Pond, 100 feet below the surface. In his journal, ...

Walden Pond closed for the summer. Another popular beach is closed for the summer, but not due to bacteria. According to an announcement from the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) on ...

Walden: An Annotated Edition By Henry David Thoreau Edited by Walter Harding Houghton Mifflin, 349 pages, $30 `Walden,” one of America’s greatest classics, perhaps reaches its highest level as ...

WALDEN POND. A retreating glacier formed it 10,000 or so years ago, but it was Thoreau — born in Concord 200 years ago this summer on July 12, 1817 — who really put Walden Pond on the map.

While indigenous humans have traversed Walden for thousands of years, tourists started visiting en masse at the turn of the 1900s, taking dips into its iconic pond. Doing so has left its mark on ...

This article is more than 4 years old. Update: After public outcry, the Baker administration says it will allow open water swimming at Walden Pond again — with some caveats. Read more here.