• Walden Pond is a celebrated pond in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States. A good example of a kettle hole, it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12...
  • 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.
  • For most people, Walden Pond has become a memorial to Thoreau as an obscure nature-loving environmentalist and transcendentalist.
  • ...over a half-million people pay homage to the storied pond and spiritually-nourishing woods where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic book, "Walden."
  • Walden Pond State Reservation is an iconic park that draws nearly 600,000 visitors per year from around the world.
  • Like most lakes, Walden Pond has a long geological past and a shorter, somewhat more dramatic anthropogenic one.
  • “Hello, and welcome to Walden Pond! You are now standing in front of the cabin inhabited by transcendentalist writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau starting in the summer...
  • Thoreau’s descriptions of living by the shores of Walden Pond include many inspirational passages on his contact with nature.
  • Locals seem to love swimming there, so that's a drawback for visitors hoping to see Walden Pond as it was in Thoreau's time.
  • Walden Pond, small pond (about 64 acres [26 hectares]) in Concord town (township), Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies just south of the...