The Walden Pond oasis has been shut down to swimming because of elevated bacteria levels after the recent deluge of rain. Walden Pond is the latest Massachusetts waterbody that has a “No Swimming” red ...

BOSTON, Mass. (State House News Service)– Five days after banning open water swimming at Concord’s Walden Pond as part of a package of changes in response to a spate of drownings around Massachusetts, ...

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 ...

CONCORD, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts has developed guidelines for people who have long ignored a rule that bars swimming across Walden Pond. The proposed rules were developed with the help of ...

State officials are again restricting open-water swimming at one of the region’s most popular recreational bodies of water. But at least on Sunday, the first day this season that the swimming rules ...

A day at the beach doesn’t have to mean trekking to the ocean. There are plenty of suitable bodies of water within the state that provide a beach experience. According to Chloe Gotsis, communications ...