A Walk to Wachusett

A Walk to Wachusett

"A Walk to Wachusett" is an essay penned by Henry David Thoreau about a journey he took with companion, Richard Fuller, from Concord, Massachusetts to the summit of Mount Wachusett located in Princeton, Massachusetts. Their journey, by foot, began on July 19, 1842. Traveling through Acton, Stow, Bolton, Lancaster and Sterling, they arrived in West Sterling by sunset and lodged overnight at a local inn.

Reaching the summit the following day, they had traveled a distance of approximately 34 miles. Time on the summit was spent exploring, relaxing and pondering the landscape and its inhabitants. On the third day, they traveled to Harvard, Massachusetts leaving in the morning of the fourth day as "one bent his steps to the nearer village of Groton, the other took his separate and solitary way to the peaceful meadows of Concord ...."

First published in the January 1843 issue of "The Boston Miscellany", this was perhaps the first of his writings on excursions taken over the years. Later trips, including a return to Wachusett in October 1854 as well as trips to Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont are documented in his journals.

External links

* An [http://www.walden.org/Institute/thoreau/writings/essays/Walk%20to%20Wachusett.htm online copy] of the text is maintained by the The Walden Woods Project.


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