The pond won’t be completely inaccessible this summer: visitors can still enjoy Red Cross Beach an unguarded swimming area.

While Main Beach will be closed, officials said that Red Cross Beach will remain open for the summer season with an unguarded ...

The main beach at Walden Pond will be closed for the 2025 summer season. The Department of Conservation and Recreation says ...

Some beaches in Massachusetts are closed to the public for swimming in the second week of June. Three beaches are closed in total on Monday, according to the state’s Department of Public Health (DPH).

According to an announcement from the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) on May 30, the main beach at Walden Pond in Concord will be closed for the season as the site undergoes ...

The main beach at the Walden Pond State Reservation in Concord will close this summer as the construction of a new bathhouse ...

The other beaches closed on Saturday have high “bacterial exceedance,” according to the DPH. These include Old Maid’s Park in ...

Massachusetts state officials closed some beaches to the public on Sunday, June 8. There were three beaches closed in total, two of them due to excess bacteria levels, according to the Department of ...

A popular Massachusetts beach will be closed for the entirety of the 2025 summer season to safely allow construction crews to ...

SUSAN BROUGH has come to the woods in Concord because she wishes to swim deliberately. With broad, powerful strokes, Brough traverses Walden Pond well outside the roped-off area where children ...

Griffiths said Walden is a kettle pond dug up by a receding glacier during the last ice age. As a result, there is no outlet to any other bodies of water, and the pond is the lowest point in the ...