The National Trust for Historic Preservation has listed Walden Pond and Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic "Walden," one of "America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places." ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

CONCORD — Mario Roman and Jenasis Valenzuela have long enjoyed summer weekends at Walden Pond. But when the couple arrived on a sweltering day last week, they found a large section of the beach was ...

After being closed for half a year, the trails at Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat are again open, and spring migrants are arriving. On our first foray around the ponds since the closure, we watched ...

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 ...

THIS IS BREAKING AT 7:00 TONIGHT. AUTHORITIES ARE IDENTIFYING NOW THE BODY THAT WAS FOUND IN THE LYNN WOODS RESERVATION IS BRIAN LOPEZ. THE TEEN HAD BEEN MISSING SINCE FRIDAY. THIS IS SKY FIVE OVER ...

After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard Smith is hanging up his straw hat. After 26 years in character as the 19th-century transcendentalist writer, Richard ...

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.

The main beach at Walden Pond will be closed for the 2025 summer season. The Department of Conservation and Recreation says construction work on a new bathhouse at the famous swimming spot in Concord, ...