Walden Pond: Spend a Summer Day at This Historical Landmark

If you live in Massachusetts and are looking for a great place to spend a day enjoying the warm summer weather, you might want to consider Walden Pond. The pond was made famous by author Henry David Thoreau, who lived by the pond years ago in isolation to be one with nature while experiencing life in its most simplistic form and wrote a book about it, appropriately titled “Walden”. Walden Pond is now turned into a gathering place for swimmers, kayakers and those who wish to sit on the beach like shore or take a stroll around the narrow wooded path that encircles the beautiful body of 102 feet of water. The entire reservation encompasses a whole 400 acres of land, but a small path has been paved around the pond for tourists to walk through and it doesn’t have huge signs indicating that straying from that path is prohibited but the wooded area beyond it is all around very wildly growing in frantic directions, surely with lots of things to trip on and maybe thorny bushes. So it is not too common to see anyone beyond the path or the pond, which is kind of a shame with all of that available land.

To some, it may seem there’s little to do at Walden Pond, being that the only other obvious park overseers are the ice cream men their truck of frozen treats out in the parking lot, one might assume a day at Walden Pond to be boring. After all, one could reason, you can only swim in the cold water for so long and it's somewhat of an hour or two long commitment to start the hike around the pond. But surprisingly, there is such an aura of peacefulness and silence in our thoughts that is evoked by the ponds atmosphere that even people who need constant stimulation have been known to be content just sitting on the sand or grass people watching or quieting the mind. Walden Pond is a great place to bring a notebook to write, to meditate and also to skinny dip if you can sneak in with no one watching. It is a very inspiring place.