What to Know if You Visit Thoreau’s Walden Pond

Nearly half a million people from around the world visit Walden Pond yearly to see where Henry David Thoreau lived and penned “Walden,” and I recently joined them. Now a state park, the Walden Pond State Reservation area is an internationally famous National Historic Landmark and is considered the birthplace of the conservation movement. Today, many people use the area for swimming, hiking, boating, and fishing. In the two years, two months and two days Thoreau lived there from July 1845 to September 1847, it was a quiet bit of untouched nature, perfect for creating a “Life in the Woods.” Getting to Walden Pond I first read Thoreau as a teenager and immediately admired his boldness and dedication to his principles, even if his ideas seemed radical to me at the time. Little did I know that I’d go on my own “radical” adventure many years later. When I finally arrived at Walden Pond, I’d been traveling full-time for nearly two years. My solo road trip took me through most of the United States and a bit of Mexico and Canada. When I planned my route, leaving from Michigan, I could have headed east instead of west and gotten to […]

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