About 30 beaches were closed Friday from Pittsfield to Yarmouth as temperatures feel like 100 degrees. A majority of the ...

Heading into this weekend, 33 Massachusetts beaches are closed. Here's the full list. The following MA beaches, listed by ...

Over two dozen beaches across the Bay State are closed on Wednesday, July 23. Here's where you can't go for a swim.

According to an announcement from the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) on May 30, the main beach at Walden ...

Tired of the seaweed and the sand when you head to the ocean? You're in luck. One of the best lakes for freshwater swimming in the country is located right here in Massachusetts, according to Reader's ...

Walden Pond beach in Concord, Mass in 2019. (John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Update: After public outcry, the Baker administration says it will allow open water ...

Walden Pond is the lowest point in the surrounding area and has no outlets for the excess water, so it will dissipate slowly, through evaporation and aquifer absorption.

Walden Pond, the Concord natural resource that inspired Henry David Thoreau’s famous book Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is being soiled by years and years’ worth of swimmers’ pee.

We met Primack on a recent warm and sunny morning at Walden Pond, where as we headed out for a walk he ticked off some of the plant species that have disappeared in this area since Thoreau wrote ...

Walden Pond is full sediment and phytoplankton because we want to swim in the calm waters that Thoreau used to look out on. Yellowstone’s wolves and trout contract diseases brought by humans, ...

Plenty of people have taken a whiz in Walden Pond since writer Henry David Thoreau sat by its shores 160-plus years ago lost in contemplation. And that, according to a new study, ...