Walden is a book by Henry David Thoreau.

Walden may also refer to:

  • Walden Pond, a body of water in Massachusetts where Thoreau once lived and after which his book is named
  • Walden Ponds Wildlife Habitat, Boulder County, Colorado (not to be confused with Walden Pond)

Place names

Antarctica

  • Cape Walden, an ice-covered cape at the northwest termination of Evans Peninsula

Canada

  • Walden, Calgary, a community in Calgary, Alberta
  • Walden, Nova Scotia
  • Walden, Ontario, now part of the city of Greater Sudbury

United States

  • Walden, Colorado
  • Walden, Georgia
  • Walden, New York
  • Walden, Oregon
  • Walden, Tennessee
  • Walden, Vermont
  • Walden Galleria, a shopping mall in Buffalo, New York
  • Walden Ridge (or Walden's Ridge), a mountain ridge and escarpment in Tennessee
  • Walden Township (disambiguation)
  • Walden–Jackson County Airport, Colorado

United Kingdom

  • Walden, North Yorkshire
  • Walden Head, North Yorkshire
  • Walden Stubbs, North Yorkshire
  • Walden Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery in Saffron Walden
  • King's Walden, a civil parish in Hertfordshire
  • Little Walden, Essex
  • RAF Little Walden (also known as Hadstock), a former World War II airfield in Essex
  • Saffron Walden, Essex
  • Saffron Walden (UK Parliament constituency)
  • Saffron Walden Railway, a branch of the Great Eastern Railway
  • St Paul's Walden, a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire

Films

  • Walden (1968 film), an avant-garde film by Lithuanian-American filmmaker Jonas Mekas
  • Walden (2017), a U.S. short film about Don Henley's Walden Woods Project
  • Walden: Life in the Woods (2017), a U.S. movie directed by Alex Harvey
  • Walden (2023 film), a U.S. thriller film starring Emile Hirsch

Education

  • Walden College, a fictitious, third-rate academic institution in the Doonesbury comics
  • Walden School (disambiguation)
  • Walden Seminary, original name of Philander Smith College, in Little Rock, Arkansas
  • Walden University, a private online for-profit university
  • Walden University (Tennessee), in Nashville

Other uses

  • Walden (name), a given name and surname, including a list of people with the name
  • Walden, a game, a 2017 video game
  • Walden 7, an apartment building located in Sant Just Desvern, Barcelona, Spain
  • Waldenbooks, an American mall-based book store
  • Walden Guitars, an acoustic guitar manufacturer based in Lilan, China
  • Walden Media, a film production company
  • Walden Motorsport, an Australian race car preparation outfit
  • Walden reductor, a metal reduction column filled with silver
  • Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award, an American young adult literature annual award established in 2008

See also

  • Walden Two, a book by B.F. Skinner
  • "My Walden", a song by Nightwish from Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  • Wald (disambiguation)
  • Walde
  • Waldman
  • Waldmann
  • Waldner