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 ...

Chirping crickets' calls mingle with the soft splashing of water over rocks. Plants wave in the occasional breeze, their long stems clearly visible in the water where tadpoles dart. But this is no ...

Forget massive chlorinated swimming pools, the hottest status symbol among wealthy landowners in the UK is now natural swimming pools — or ponds, as you might call them. The purpose-built garden water ...

MAUREPAS, La. — Why travel to a beach when you can have one in your own backyard? That’s the idea behind this Louisiana company about 50 miles northwest of New Orleans. Zydeco Construction specializes ...

What if a dip in the backyard pool felt more like a swim in a clear mountain lake? That’s the experience New Jersey-based BioNova is seeking to re-create with its natural swimming pools. Instead of ...

GLYNDON, Minn. — The swimming pond at Buffalo River State Park will remain closed again this summer, and likely for summers in the near future, as damaged infrastructure renders the pond unusable. The ...

TO SWIM IN NATURAL BODIES OF WATER IN HOWARD COUNTY. LIKE CENTENNIAL LAKE IT’S ILLEGAL TO SWIM IN A RIVER IN HOWARD COUNTY, OR A STREAM, OR A LAKE OR A POND. BUT THERE’S BEEN A DANGEROUS SPIKE IN ...

COLUMBIA, SC Riverbanks Zoo has shut down a popular children’s wading pond after learning that youngsters were using it as a kiddie pool, which the zoo wasn’t prepared to operate. The man-made wetland ...

For those hot summer days when you want to cool down, but dip in the pool or a trip to the beach isn’t for you or won’t quite do, swimming holes in and around Massachusetts may be the perfect answer.

The mecca of Massachusetts open-water swimming has been roped off and regulated in response to a spike in drownings statewide, and Walden Pond regulars are now calling on the state to reverse its ban ...