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 ...

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.

Henry David Thoreau, the environmental philosopher and author of “Walden”, was a keen observer of seasonal change. In 1862, for example, he wrote in the Atlantic Monthly: “October is the month of ...

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 ...

Walden Pond, shown in 2003, has a big problem with swimmers who urinate in the pond, fouling the water and damaging the famed pond’s ecosystem, according a new scientific report. Naturalist and ...

Henry David Thoreau died on May 6, 1862, in Concord, Mass., surrounded by books and flowers. At the funeral, his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered a eulogy that emphasized Thoreau’s ...

Henry David Thoreau spent hours hiking in the woods near his small cabin on Walden Pond. "He figured out that the way to break through into his own way of doing things was to think as he walked," ...

Hundreds of miles from Louisiana, at Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts, a crowd of well-wishers gathers today to mark the bicentennial of Henry David Thoreau’s birth. He was born two centuries ago ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Concord Museum curator David Wood visited Walden Pond to recount Henry David Thoreau’s time there and the lasting impact of his book. For two years, ...

On a recent trip to Boston, we spent time at Walden Pond in Concord. It was not at all what I had imagined and while my imaginings were beautiful, they did not come close to the simplicity and ...