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 ...

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.

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 ...

CONCORD - American literary icon Henry David Thoreau spent two years, two months, and two days at Walden Pond, writing what would later be published as his book "Walden." Now, nearly 180 years later, ...

CONCORD, MASS. (WHDH) - For years, Walden Pond in Concord has been the place for people to enjoy the water but the state announced Friday restrictions to open water swimming amid a growing number of ...

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 ...