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66-601: 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. 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 Conservation and Recreation . The reservation was designated

132-589: A National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association with the writer Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), whose two years living in a cabin on its shore provided the foundation for his famous 1854 work, Walden; or, Life in the Woods . The National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 ensured federal support for the preservation of the pond. The Walden Pond Reservation is located south of Massachusetts Route 2 and (mostly) west of Massachusetts Route 126 in Concord and Lincoln, Massachusetts . The Fitchburg Line of

198-451: A Romanticist, positively viewed Parzival .) Thoreau wrote: An old man who used to frequent this pond nearly sixty years ago, when it was dark with surrounding forests, tells me that in those days he sometimes saw it all alive with ducks and other water-fowl, and that there were many eagles about it. He came here a-fishing, and used an old log canoe which he found on the shore. It was made of two white pine logs dug out and pinned together, and

264-523: A compromise, proclaiming the day as Patriots' Day . In April 1975, Concord hosted a bicentennial celebration of the battle, featuring an address at the Old North Bridge by President Gerald Ford . Concord has a remarkably rich literary history centered in the 19th century around Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), who moved there in 1835 and quickly became its most prominent citizen. A successful lecturer and philosopher, Emerson had deep roots in

330-500: A hill here, which rose as high into the heavens as the pond now sinks deep into the earth, and they used much profanity, as the story goes, though this vice is one of which the Indians were never guilty, and while they were thus engaged the hill shook and suddenly sank, and only one old squaw, named Walden, escaped, and from her the pond was named. It has been conjectured that when the hill shook these stones rolled down its side and became

396-587: A large group of men decamped from the train to cut ice there for sixteen days. In his journal, Thoreau philosophized upon the wintry sight of the ice harvesters: "The sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well ... The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges ". It was well known at the time that ice shipped from Boston went to many ports, including India. An amusement park with swings, concession stands and an event hall, located at

462-470: A manner indistinguishable from the American pronunciation of the word "conquered." In the local dialect of Greater Boston , it is frequently heard with the [ər] in the second syllable replaced by [ ʏ ] ( [ˈkɒŋkʏd] KAHN -kəd ). According to Concord's 2016 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the principal employers in the town are: Concord and West Concord stations are served by

528-580: A small cabin near Walden Pond , where he wrote Walden (1854). After being imprisoned in the Concord jail for refusing to pay taxes in political protest against slavery and the Mexican–American War , Thoreau penned the influential essay "Resistance to Civil Government", popularly known as Civil Disobedience (1849). Evidencing their strong political beliefs through actions, Thoreau and many of his neighbors served as station masters and agents on

594-551: A vote of 265 to 272. The ban on selling water in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles of one liter or less passed in 2012 by a vote of 403 to 364, and a repeal effort in April failed by a vote of 621 to 687. According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 25.9 square miles (67 km ), of which 24.9 square miles (64 km ) is land and 1.0 square mile (2.6 km ), or 3.75%,

660-425: A well here. As for the stones, many still think that they are hardly to be accounted for by the action of the waves on these hills; but I observe that the surrounding hills are remarkably full of the same kind of stones, so that they have been obliged to pile them up in walls on both sides of the railroad cut nearest the pond; and, moreover, there are most stones where the shore is most abrupt; so that, unfortunately, it

726-529: Is also notable for its progressive and environmentalist politics, becoming in 2012 the first community in the United States to ban single-serving PET bottles. The area which became the town of Concord was originally known as "Musketaquid", situated at the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers. The name was an Algonquian word for "grassy plain", fitting the area's low-lying marshes and kettle holes . Native Americans had cultivated corn crops there;

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792-691: Is near where the Sudbury and Assabet rivers join to form the Concord River . The area that became the town of Concord was originally known as Musketaquid , an Algonquian word for "grassy plain." Concord was established in 1635 by a group of English settlers; by 1775, the population had grown to 1,400. As dissension between colonists in North America and the British crown intensified, 700 troops were sent to confiscate militia ordnance stored at Concord on April 19, 1775. The ensuing conflict,

858-529: Is no longer a mystery to me. I detect the paver. If the name was not derived from that of some English locality -- Saffron Walden , for instance -- one might suppose that it was called originally Walled-in Pond. Also in "The Ponds," Thoreau describes incorporeal experiences around the water, both experiences related to him by others and his own. Thoreau, who was well read and a transcendentalist , and therefore presumably intimately familiar with Romanticism , relates

924-413: Is water. The city of Lowell is 13 miles (21 km) to the north, Boston is 19 miles (31 km) to the east, and Nashua, New Hampshire , is 23 miles (37 km) to the north. Massachusetts state routes 2 , 2A , 62 , 126 , 119 , 111 , and 117 pass through Concord. The town center is near the confluence of the Sudbury and Assabet rivers, forming the Concord River , which flows north to

990-605: The Los Angeles Times characterized the ban as "born of convoluted reasoning" and "wrongheaded." Some residents believed the ban would do little to affect the sales of bottled water, which was still highly accessible in the surrounding areas, and that it restricted consumers' freedom of choice. Opponents also considered the ban to unfairly target one product in particular, when other, less healthy alternatives such as soda and fruit juice were still readily available in bottled form. Nonetheless, subsequent efforts to repeal

1056-617: The Anglo-Saxon Federation of America . On behalf of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, Rose testified before Congress in 1954 in support of a revision to the flawed " loyalty " proceedings that had been brought in preceding years, many of which lacked a basis. Rose also testified before House Judiciary Committee 's Subcommittee on Civil Rights in July 1955 in support of federal civil rights laws. In

1122-706: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts , more than 85 acres of land were permanently protected, including Bear Garden Hill, where Thoreau took moonlit walks. In 1995, The Trust for Public Land also assisted in the acquisition of a historic home, which would become the research center and library for the Thoreau Institute. While living in Walden Woods for two years beginning in 1845, Henry David Thoreau contemplated Walden Pond's features. In "The Ponds" section of Walden , published in 1854, Thoreau extols

1188-455: The MBTA 's Fitchburg Line . Yankee Line provides commuter bus service between Concord and Boston. Concord's sister cities are: Concord is featured in the 2012 video game Assassin's Creed 3 , the 2020 video game Assassin's Creed Valhalla and the 2015 video game Fallout 4 . The video game Walden, a game , based on Henry David Thoreau's Walden, is set in the town. Scenes from

1254-525: The MBTA Commuter Rail passes west of the pond; however, the nearest station is in Concord center , 1.4 miles northwest of the reservation. The reservation is 335 acres (136 ha) in size, and its principal feature is Walden Pond, a 64.5-acre (26.1 ha) body of water. A short way north of the pond the site of Thoreau's cabin is marked by a series of granite posts. Portions of the pond's shore are beach, while other parts descend steeply to

1320-693: The Merrimack River in Lowell. Gunpowder was manufactured from 1835 to 1940 in the American Powder Mills complex extending upstream along the Assabet River. Local government consists of a five-member executive Select Board and a legislature utilizing open town meeting . On the federal level, Concord is part of Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district , represented by Lori Trahan . The state's senior ( Class I ) member of

1386-480: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1972. The porous pavement still functions decades later, despite experiencing more freeze-thaw cycling than most other parts of the world. Recording artist Don Henley initiated The Walden Woods Project in 1990 to prevent the area around Walden Pond from being developed. Through a joint effort of The Trust for Public Land , the Walden Woods Project , and

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1452-654: The Underground Railroad . The Wayside , a house on Lexington Road, has been home to several authors. It was occupied by scientist John Winthrop (1714–1779) when Harvard College was temporarily moved to Concord during the Revolutionary War. The Wayside was later the home of the Alcott family (who referred to it as "Hillside"); the Alcotts sold it to Hawthorne in 1852, and the family moved into

1518-739: The United States Senate is Elizabeth Warren . The junior ( Class II ) senator is Ed Markey . At the 2020 census, there were 18,491 people, 7,295 housing units and 6,439 families residing in the town. The population density was 714.0 inhabitants per square mile (275.7/km ). The average density of housing units was 282.0 per square mile (108.9/km ). The racial makeup of the town was 82.94% White , 2.61% African American , 6.18% Asian , 4.55% Hispanic or Latino (of any race), 0.02% Native American , 0.02% Pacific Islander , 1.02% from other races , and 6.86% from two or more races. There were 6,439 families, of which 35.98% had children under

1584-636: The battles of Lexington and Concord , were the incidents (including the shot heard round the world ) that triggered the American Revolutionary War . A rich literary community developed in Concord during the mid-19th century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson . Emerson's circle included Nathaniel Hawthorne , Louisa May Alcott and Henry David Thoreau . Major works written in Concord during this period include Alcott's novel Little Women , Emerson's essay Self-Reliance , and Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience . In this era,

1650-758: The 1940s, Rose served as president of the Law Society of Massachusetts . Rose also served as national chair of the Boston University Alumni Association . Rose died on April 29, 1995, at Imperial Point Hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida , at age 89. Rose lived in Wellesley, Massachusetts , and Fort Lauderdale, Florida . In February 1939, Rose married Ruth June Goodman, daughter of Michael L. Goodman, then publisher of The Scranton Times-Tribune (known then as

1716-579: The 2017 comedy film Daddy's Home 2 were filmed at Concord scout house. Parts of the 2019 film Little Women were shot on the Concord River . Jane Langton 's Homer Kelly murder mystery novels are largely set in Concord. Her 1964 novel 'The Transcendental Murder' was described in the Boston Globe in 1975 as 'a hymn to Concord, its history, its houses, its hallowed ground, its people and patriots, and its ghosts (Emerson and Thoreau)'. Italian director Lucio Fulci 's 1981 horror film The House by

1782-517: The Alcotts are buried on Authors' Ridge in Concord's Sleepy Hollow Cemetery . The 20th-century composer Charles Ives wrote his Concord Sonata ( c.  1904–1915 ) as a series of impressionistic portraits of literary figures associated with the town. Concord maintains a lively literary culture to this day; notable authors who have called the town home in recent years include Doris Kearns Goodwin , Alan Lightman , Robert B. Parker , and Gregory Maguire . In 1849, Ephraim Wales Bull developed

1848-770: The Cemetery was partly filmed in Concord - notably the Holy Family Church, a Main Street realty and the Concord Free Public Library . The Mother-Daughter Book Club series of children's novels is set in Concord. David A Rose (judge) Rose was born in 1906 in Boston . His father was Morris Rose. He graduated from Boston University , with a business degree, and then graduated from Boston University Law School . In 1935, Rose

1914-518: The Concord grape") Concord grape spread worldwide, bringing him up to $ 1,000 a cutting, but he died a relatively poor man. The inscription on his tombstone reads, "He sowed—others reaped." On September 5, 2012, Concord became the first community in the United States to approve a ban on the sale of water in single-serving plastic bottles. The law banned the sale of PET bottles of one liter (34 U.S. fl oz) or less starting January 1, 2013. The ban provoked national controversy. An editorial in

1980-788: The New England Region of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL). Rose was also a longtime chairman of the group's national executive committee. Rose was also involved in the creation of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Boston, its president in the 1940s, and involved in the creation of the Jewish Big Brother Association. In 1946, Rose recommended to Boston Attorney General to investigate anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish activities of

2046-538: The adjacent Orchard House in 1858. Hawthorne dubbed the house "The Wayside" and lived there until his death. The house was purchased in 1883 by Boston publisher Daniel Lothrop and his wife, Harriett, who wrote the Five Little Peppers series and other children's books under the pen name Margaret Sidney . Today, The Wayside and the Orchard House are both museums. Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and

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2112-480: The age of 18 living with them, 62.98% were married couples living together, 22.4% had a female householder with no spouse present, 12.4% had a male householder with no spouse present, and 28.42% were non-families, and 24.59% of all households were made up of individuals. The average family size was 3.18. 25.1% of the population were under the age of 18, 4.2% from 18 to 24, 25.8% from 25 to 44, 28.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

2178-403: The ban have failed in open town meetings . An effort to repeal Concord's ban on the sale of plastic water bottles was resoundingly defeated at a Town Meeting. Resident Jean Hill, who led the initial fight for the ban, said, "I really feel at the age of 86 that I've really accomplished something." Town Moderator Eric Van Loon didn't even bother taking an official tally because opposition to repeal

2244-430: The basis of the new town, called "Concord" in appreciation of the peaceful acquisition. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War . On April 19, 1775, 700 British Army troops led by Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Smith marched from Boston to Concord to confiscate a cache of arms stored in the town. Unbeknownst to them, Patriot leaders had moved most of

2310-409: The bottom. Noting the kettle landform 's ramparts and resilient shore, he concludes that a unique, natural geologic event formed the site, while recognizing local myths: Some have been puzzled to tell how the shore became so regularly paved. My townsmen have all heard the tradition -- the oldest people tell me that they heard it in their youth -- that anciently the Indians were holding a pow-wow upon

2376-634: The cache elsewhere. 150 Patriot minutemen from local towns, who had been forewarned of the Army's march by Samuel Prescott on April 18, quickly mustered and confronted the British in Lexington . Though who fired the first shot is unknown, a firefight broke out and the British fired a volley at the Americans before dispersing them with a bayonet charge , killing eight. The British proceeded into Concord and dispersed into company-sized formations to search for

2442-527: The cache. At 11:00am, 400 minutemen engaged 100 British troops at the Old North Bridge , leading to a number of casualties on both sides and forcing them to fall back and rejoin the Army's main force. After the British completed their search for the cache in Concord, they marched back to Boston, but were constantly attacked by minutemen in hit-and-run attacks, suffering more casualties before reaching Charlestown, Boston . The minutemen then blockaded

2508-552: The country thanking him for saving the land. Walden Pond became part of the state parks system in 1975. It is also among the national landmarks preserved by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 . In 1977, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts installed a porous pavement parking area at Walden Pond as a special technology transfer demonstration project, following methodology generated by

2574-628: The creation of the Massachusetts Appeals Court in 1972, Governor Frank Sargent appointed Rose to the court, one of the first six justices. Having already served for 36 years on the Municipal Court and Superior Court, Rose became the Appeals Court's first senior associate justice. In March 1976, Rose reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 years, but continued to serve part-time on the bench for years after

2640-495: The ideal grape. Early ripening, to escape the killing northern frosts, but with a rich, full-bodied flavor, the hardy Concord grape thrives where European cuttings had failed to survive. In 1853, Bull felt ready to put the first bunches of Concord grapes before the public and won a prize at the Boston Horticultural Society Exhibition. From these early arbors, the fame of Bull's ("the father of

2706-473: The local indigenous tribes . Bulkeley was an influential religious leader who "carried a good number of planters with him into the woods"; Willard was a canny trader who spoke the Algonquian language and had gained the trust of Native Americans. They exchanged wampum , hatchets, knives, cloth, and other useful items for the six-square-mile (16 km ) purchase from Squaw Sachem of Mistick , which formed

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2772-410: The naming of the American film company Walden Media and is a frequent subject of professional and amateur photographers. C-SPAN broadcast an episode of its American Writers series from the shores of Walden Pond in 2001. Walden Pond appears in the video game Fallout 4 where Thoreau's cabin is preserved. The pond also serves as the backdrop for the game ' Walden, a game ' where players assume

2838-635: The narrow land accesses to Charlestown, initiating the siege of Boston . Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson subsequently described the shot fired by the minutemen at the Old North Bridge in his 1837 poem " Concord Hymn " as the " shot heard round the world ". In 1894, the Lexington Historical Society petitioned the Massachusetts State Legislature to proclaim April 19 "Lexington Day"; Concord countered with "Concord Day". Governor Frederic T. Greenhalge opted for

2904-509: The now-ubiquitous Concord grape at his home on Lexington Road, where the original vine still grows. Welch's , the first company to sell grape juice, maintains a headquarters in Concord. The Boston-born Bull developed the Concord grape by experimenting with seeds from some of the native species. On his farm outside Concord, down the road from the Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and Alcott homesteads, he planted some 22,000 seedlings before producing

2970-411: The now-ubiquitous Concord grape was developed in Concord by Ephraim Wales Bull . In the 20th century, Concord developed into an affluent Boston suburb and tourist destination, drawing visitors to the Old North Bridge , Orchard House and Walden Pond . The town retains its literary culture and is home to notable authors, including Doris Kearns Goodwin , Alan Lightman and Gregory Maguire . Concord

3036-673: The philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888), the father of Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). A native Concordian, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was another notable member of Emerson's circle. This substantial collection of literary talent in one small town led Henry James to dub Concord "the biggest little place in America." Among the products of this intellectually stimulating environment were Emerson's many essays, including Self-Reliance (1841), Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women (1868), and Hawthorne's story collection Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). Thoreau famously lived in

3102-437: The pond famous. The land at that end was owned by Thoreau's friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson , who let Thoreau use it for his experiment. Walden Pond was in a neglected, heavily used and even socially dangerous area just outside the town, where African American slaves had frequently lived and atrocities against them had been committed; the earth there had been mined, the town dump was eventually located across from it, and it

3168-400: The present shore. It is very certain, at any rate, that once there was no pond here, and now there is one; and this Indian fable does not in any respect conflict with the account of that ancient settler whom I have mentioned, who remembers so well when he first came here with his divining-rod, saw a thin vapor rising from the sward, and the hazel pointed steadily downward, and he concluded to dig

3234-565: The public beach when the Commissioners were sued to stop the destruction of the existing environment. Judge David A Rose , sitting in the Massachusetts Superior Court , ruled that Walden's deed donating the property to the Commonwealth required preservation of the land and barred further development. The decision received national recognition, and Judge Rose received hundreds of letters from school children across

3300-526: The rivers were rich with fish and the land was lush and arable. The area was largely depopulated in 1633 by an epidemic of smallpox , a disease likely to have been introduced to the New World by European explorers and settlers. In 1635, a group of English settlers led by Rev. Peter Bulkley and Major Simon Willard received a land grant from the General Court and negotiated a land purchase with

3366-550: The role of author Henry David Thoreau during his time living at the pond in the 1840s. The game was in development for more than ten years and is currently available on Mac , PC , and PS4 . Concord, Massachusetts Concord ( / ˈ k ɒ ŋ k ər d / ) is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts , United States. In the 2020 census , the town population was 18,491. The United States Census Bureau considers Concord part of Greater Boston . The town center

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3432-441: The shore; but when you went toward it, it would go back into the deep water and disappear ... When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grapevines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass. The hills which form its shores are so steep, and the woods on them were then so high, that, as you looked down from

3498-532: The state enacted the Court Reform Act of 1978, which allowed retired Appeals Court judges to be recalled. Rose was the first person to be a recalled retired justice in the state, and served in that role from 1978 to 1985. Rose was of counsel to Barron and Stadfeld, a law firm in Boston, from 1976 to 1978. Rose was active in many community and civil rights organizations and held numerous positions with

3564-583: The stories in a way that could be argued to interpret or reveal the pond as the locale of the Grail Legend in the Americas. In the following passage, Walden Pond's vanishing treasure chest echoes the protagonist's fleeting encounter with the grail in Wolfram von Eschenbach 's German romance Parzival , and the pond's canoe is reminiscent of the boat in A Fairy Tale . ( Goethe , who was a Classicist, not

3630-561: The town: his father, Rev. William Emerson (1769–1811), grew up in Concord before becoming an eminent Boston minister, and his grandfather, William Emerson Sr. , witnessed the battle at the North Bridge from his house, and later became a chaplain in the Continental Army. Emerson was at the center of a group of like-minded Transcendentalists living in Concord. Among them were the author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) and

3696-413: The water from trails that ring the pond. There are three buildings at the main beach area at the southeastern shore of the pond. The reservation's parking area is located across Route 126, and a ramped footpath descends from that roadway to the pond. The writer, transcendentalist , and philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the northern shore of the pond for two years from the summer of 1845. Thoreau

3762-431: The water's physical properties. He details its unparalleled water quality; its clarity, color, and temperature; its unique animal life (aquatic, bird, and mammal); its rock formations and bed; and especially, its mirror-like surface properties. Thoreau contemplates the source of the pristine water body in the woods. He observes that it had no visible inlet or outlet, and considers the possibility of an unidentified spring at

3828-428: The west end, it had the appearance of an amphitheater for some kind of sylvan spectacle. I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness

3894-501: The western end of the pond, burned down in 1902 and was never rebuilt. Descendants of Emerson and other families deeded the land around the pond to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1922. In 1961, the Middlesex County Commissioners, then managing the land, proposed leveling a significant portion of the preserve for a parking lot and other "improvements." An acre of woodland had been leveled for access to

3960-433: Was 42 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.3 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over, there were 101.8 men. At the time of the 2020 census , the median household income was $ 184,086. About 2.5% of the population was below the poverty line, including 1.7% of those under age 18 and 1.1% of those aged 65 or over. The town's name is pronounced by its residents as / ˈ k ɒ ŋ k ər d / KONG -kərd , in

4026-526: Was cut off square at the ends. It was very clumsy, but lasted a great many years before it became water-logged and perhaps sank to the bottom. He did not know whose it was; it belonged to the pond. He used to make a cable for his anchor of strips of hickory bark tied together. An old man, a potter, who lived by the pond before the Revolution, told him once that there was an iron chest at the bottom, and that he had seen it. Sometimes it would come floating up to

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4092-529: Was elected to the state legislature . Rose was named to the Municipal Court in Dorchester, Boston in 1936, as a part-time "special justice" (a role that allowed him to continue practicing law). He practiced with Jackson J. Holtz. He was appointed to the Superior Court in 1960. In 1961, while on the Superior Court bench, Rose issued a ruling that led to the preservation of Walden Pond . Upon

4158-478: Was full of marks from mining hauls, and pottery and charcoal making. Thus, according to Austin Meredith, Thoreau's writing can be credited not only with encouraging a general respect for Nature, but with inspiring special care for and reclamation of land that has in history been abused or exploited. The Concord Museum contains the bed, chair, and desk from Thoreau's cabin. During the winter he lived at Walden Pond

4224-468: Was inspired by former enslaved woman Zilpah White, who lived in a one-room house on the common land that bordered Walden Road and made a living spinning flax into linen fibers. White's ability to provide for herself at a time when few if any other Concord women lived alone was a singular accomplishment. Thoreau's account of his experience at the pond was recorded in Walden; or, Life in the Woods , and made

4290-406: Was so overwhelming. It appeared that upwards of 80 to 90 percent of the 1,127 voters in attendance raised their ballots against the repeal measure. The issue had been bubbling in Concord for several years. In 2010, a ban approved in a town meeting, which wasn't written as a bylaw, was rejected by the state attorney general's office. In 2011, a new version of the ban narrowly failed at a town meeting by

4356-549: Was the most attractive and productive industry. In addition to being a popular swimming destination in the summer, Walden Pond State Reservation provides opportunities for boating, hiking, picnicking, and fishing. There is a replica of Thoreau's cabin available for viewing. The reservation is open year-round for day use, but does not allow camping overnight. A new Walden Pond Visitor Center, designed by Maryann Thompson, opened in 2016. The building uses no fossil fuel and has many other sustainable design features. Walden Pond inspired

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