- Thoreau wrote Walden after spending two years in a cabin he built himself next to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts on land owned by his friend.
- While living in Walden Woods for two years beginning in 1845, Henry David Thoreau contemplated Walden Pond's features.
- Let a visit to Walden Pond bring you back in time to the mid-1800's. Experience the connection with nature that inspired Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
- 26,448 Free images of Walden Pond. Thousands of walden pond images to choose from. Free high resolution picture download.
- Walden Pond is the centerpiece of Thoreau’s Walden Woods and is the focus of Thoreau’s most famous piece: Walden.
- Sunday 6/28/2020 at 8:00am Walden Pond State Reservation has reached its maximum safe number of people in the park and is CLOSED to all incoming visitors.
- W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth century to the present.
- The popularity of Walden ensured the enduring status and renown of Walden Pond, a body of water that Thoreau described as a “lower heaven.”
- Efforts to protect the woodlands around Walden Pond began in the 1920s, and the state reservation offers more than 300 acres to explore.
- Situated within the Walden Pond State Reservation, a 335-acre protected open space, the pond was formed from glacier melt approximately 10,000-12,000 years ago.
