The boardwalk at Boundary Bay Regional Park is being replaced after the decades old structure started to fail over the summer.
Metro Vancouver area parks manager Mitch Sokalski said last week the boardwalk had to be closed to the public in early summer.
"Unfortunately in July we did have a couple of small failures on the boardwalk," he said of walkers breaking through the boards.
Sokalski said staff repaired the broken board after the first incident in mid-July, but a week later it happened again at a different location along the boardwalk.
Upon further inspection, he said, staff determined there was a larger failure in the structure that supports the decking and would require a full replacement of the entire 500 feet of boardwalk.
The area has been closed to the public ever since.
Sokalski said the boardwalk will be replaced with a similar-type wooden structure, but the new version will include wider viewing areas for birders and other wildlife enthusiasts who frequent the area.
He said the current boardwalk has been in place for 20 years and Metro Vancouver was planning on replacing it in the near future.
"We thought we could get another year out of it, but that's not the case," he said.
Sokalski said the goal is to have the new boardwalk open by March or April.
