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Boardwalk
Wooden footpath to cross wet land / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about walks made of boards. For entertainment venues along an oceanfront, see Boardwalk (entertainment district). For other uses, see Boardwalk (disambiguation).
A boardwalk (alternatively board walk, boarded path, or promenade) is an elevated footpath, walkway, or causeway typically built with wooden planks, which functions as a type of low water bridge or small viaduct that enables pedestrians to better cross wet, muddy or marshy lands.[1] Such timber trackways have existed since at least Neolithic times.
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Some wooden boardwalks have had sections replaced by concrete and even "a type of recycled plastic that looks like wood."[2]