For generations, swimmers packed Mendon Ponds Park for a summertime dip while sunbathers soaked in the rays in the park’s beach area. The park had a staff of lifeguards, a bathhouse for changing and a ...

OUR MATT REED HAS THIS STORY. WHEN YOU GET IN A POND, YOU FORGET YOURSELF. AND YOU CAN’T UNDERESTIMATE HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO GET OUT OF YOUR OWN HEAD. WHILE THE BEACHES GET ALL THE HEADLINES ARE, ...

Can’t bear the thought of fighting traffic to the coast? Or do you prefer to cool off at a freshwater swimming hole? Whatever the case may be, the South Shore has a number of options for getting your ...

Who can forget dreamy summer afternoons climbing out onto a slippery willow limb, or dangling from a rope swing, and yelling COW-A-BUNGA just before plunging into the water? And the plunging! What ...

Growing up playing in the frigid ponds of Wisconsin, Rex Boggs became used to sharing a pool with fish, frogs and egrets. For him, it was the way swimming ought to be. So when he and his wife Katy ...

START OF SUMMER HERE AT THE BOSTON COMMON. MAYOR BREW LED THE KICKOFF CELEBRATION EARLIER TODAY WHILE FROG POND FREDDY LED LITTLE TADPOLES IN A DANCE OFF, MUSIC, FROZEN TREATS, AND EVEN SOME LOCAL ...

Libby’s new swimming pond may look ready for use, but Park Manager Adam Noble said there is still work to be done before it’s ready for the public. “We need to put up the fencing and get the water ...

The dog days of summer are finally behind us, but I’m still burned by the memory of this year’s heat. Summers in Massachusetts are becoming hotter and muggier, to the extent where even the ...

Whenever I’m feeling stressed out, heartbroken or scared over the state of our nation, the one place where I can find solace, however fleeting, is in the outdoors. I’ve taken several mental vacations ...