The main beach at the Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord will close this summer as the construction of a new bathhouse ...

The freeze-thaw cycles throughout the winter often leave waterways ... the seam is Concord’s famed Walden Pond. I remember visiting once years ago when ice shards bobbed in the frigid water ...

The main beach at Walden Pond will be closed for the 2025 summer season. The Department of Conservation and Recreation says ...

Keith Bergman lives at White Pond in Concord, which Henry David Thoreau called Walden's lesser twin. He watched the water levels rise all winter and then sat on a submerged bench in the spring.

In the winter of 1857, Thoreau wrote ... Primack looks for the same plants Thoreau observed around Walden Pond. He notes the blueberry bushes in the area tend to flower about three or four ...

Visitor Services Supervisor Kyle Griffiths said 60 inches of rain dropped into Walden Pond last year, compared to the usual 50 inches of rain the area typically gets. “Over the winter ...

Walden Pond is also frequented in summer by walkers and bird watchers, and in winter by snowshoers and cross-country skiers. Many wander off the 1.7-mile shaded dirt path hugging the oblong pond ...