Boardwalk

Many people walking on a boardwalk at the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey
The Atlantic City, New Jersey boardwalk, as seen from Caesars Atlantic City, opened in 1870, as the first U.S. boardwalk. At 5+12 miles (9 km) long, it is also one of the world's longest, busiest, and oldest boardwalks. New Jersey is home to the world's highest concentration of boardwalks.

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.

Some wooden boardwalks have had sections replaced by concrete and even "a type of recycled plastic that looks like wood."[2]

  1. ^ Oxford English Dictionary
  2. ^ Liz Robbins (February 19, 2012). "Wood May Give Way to Plastic on Coney Island Boardwalk". The New York Times.