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Walden Pond is a historic pond in Concord, Massachusetts, in the United States. A good example of a kettle hole , it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago. [ 4 ] The pond is protected as part of Walden Pond State Reservation , a 335-acre (136 ha) state park and recreation site managed by the Massachusetts Department of ...
A storied part of our national heritage, Walden Pond and Walden Woods in Massachusetts – where Henry David Thoreau wrote his 1854 classic "Walden" – has been named one of "America's 11 Most ...
The parking lot at Walling Pond, a popular fishing spot in southeast Salem on private property, was recently closed off due to an increase in the unhoused population living there.
In May, Watson Pond was closed due to vandalism and now it's off limits to swimmers again -- this time due to bacteria in the water.
Breed's Pond, at the southern end of the reservation, was dammed for industrial use in the 1840s, and Dungeon Rock became a tourist attraction in the 1850s. Demands for improved water supply (for both consumption and fire suppression) in the 1860s led to organized activities to conserve the woodlands surround Breed's and Walden Ponds.
Like the nearby Walden Pond (about half a mile to the south), Fairyland lies within a kettle hole, a depression formed by a retreating glacier. The artificial pond itself covers an area of 2.75 acres. Unlike Walden Pond (which is the deepest lake in Massachusetts), the Fairyland Pond is relatively shallow, with a maximum depth of 4 feet.
The Town of Wake Forest closed access to Joyner Park Pond on Friday after detecting a dangerous red algae bloom. In a news release, the town’s public affairs director said that an investigation ...
Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat is a 102-acre (41 ha) Boulder County, Colorado park. It was reclaimed between 1974 and the 1990s from an open-pit gravel mine on the site, and is named after Walden "Wally" Toevs, the Boulder County Commissioner who spearheaded the plan to convert the gravel pits into a wildlife habitat .