<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 11.00.9600.17037"></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>No doubt the dates cited by Lee, MA, Rocco, and etc. are correct in regards to park-wide projects, but it is clear that wooden walkways existed well before the 1940s. These may have been short and restricted to the surrounds of individual features, but for a few examples look at Haynes photos 22637 (Dragon's Mouth), 11125 and 23463 (Mud Volcano), 16049 (Morning Glory -- I think that's a walkway on the far side of the pool), and perhaps even better a photo from the USGS digital photo file labeled "Black Growler 1924" that clearly shows a wooden walkway and bridge complete with wooden railing. Lastly, while I can't seem to locate it at the moment, someplace there's a picture of Porcelain Basin that shows a wooden plank-like walkway that extends well out into the basin; I somehow recall the date of 1922 for that one.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/2/2014 11:17:17 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, lee_whittlesey@nps.gov writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>For information on the UGB walkways, see the Geyser Gazer pages on Facebook. M.A. Bellingham and I both made some comments there. The first formal walkways that I know of at UGB were the asphalt ones, built in (as I recall) 1934. Rocco Paperiello has posted some photos of this construction from the park's black scrapbooks on his Facebook page.  <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>The park's actual move to wooden boardwalks (what the 1946 Report of the Superintendent called "duckwalks") began that year, and continued being built during the period 1946-1950 in various places.</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>