Duckboards

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Duckboards in the Patvinsuo national park, Finland.

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Duckboards are a form of passageway for hikers and other pedestrians built at a moist area of ground, such as swamps or shores of lakes. Duckboards are built from one or two parallel, wide split logs. Sometimes there are three to four parallel logs. Specially wide duckboards to provide wheelchair access also exist.

Duckboards are nailed into their support logs at the end of the logs with wooden stakes. Metal nails are usually not used. In Finland, there are countless kilometres of duckboards, most prominently in hiking and nature preservation areas, nature paths, and on moist routes leading to bird observation towers.

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