Where's Walden?

• Position: Literature - Walden Pond in Henry David Thoreau's "Walden: Or, Life in the Woods" - Brief article

Every year, half a million people visit Walden Pond in Concord, Mass. Many go to retrace the steps of Henry David Thoreau. His 1854 classic, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, details his two years living near Walden Pond in a cabin stripped of the conveniences of his day. But ironically, conveniences of our day, like GPS, are leading some Thoreau fans astray--to a reservoir in northern Massachusetts also called Walden. More than a dozen recent tests on iPhones, Androids, and Google yielded directions to the wrong Walden. One writer and a...