Where’s Walden? GPS Often Doesn’t Know

My company gets its inspiration from Henry David Thoreau. Years ago before GPS I was able to locate and visit Walden Pond using a paper map. Today it may be difficult to find WITH GPS

For more info please read article published in the NY Times yesterday (Sunday September 1)

 

LYNN, Mass. — Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau’s idyllic retreat in the woods of Concord, Mass., has long been one of the most famous day trips in New England, drawing droves of visitors seeking the tranquil beauty immortalized in the 19th-century philosopher’s writings.

But some 21st-century conveniences — namely Google maps and some GPS devices — have been leading a distributary of travelers to the wrong Walden: an identically named reservoir, next to a golf course, in this old industrial center on Massachusetts’ North Shore.

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