Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Walking path around pond ideas

It is one half mile around my pond and I use it as my walking area for exercise. I walk about an hour every morning during the week and an hour and half on weekends.

It is great in this dry weather but I am concerned it will be too wet in areas this winter--not standing water except on my spillways but slick clay in areas.

Making an asphalt path would be very expensive.

Has anyone seen anything or done anything along these lines?

We don't have a house on the property yet, but did make a fire pit area and on the outside area of the firepit we dumped loads of mulch and then spread it.

As to cost, the tree companies many times will drop for free if you can find one that is working in the area....check to see who your power company uses for trees/limbs and contact them. It is typically 100% waste for them and wood chips are easy to walk on / will decompose into the soil over the years.

I agree with the idea of contacting tree companies. We arborists generate 10, 20, even more cubic yards of chips each day per chipper. We like to get some compensation for delivering it, but often we'll drop it for free if it means we can get the truck back to the job site quickly.
My 10 yard chip truck makes a substantial pile of mulch. Many housing subdivisions will take all the chips we want to give them. They have crews spreading them on walking paths throughout the summer months.
I'll spread chips on our nearly bottomless, sticky clay soil if I'm planning on taking heavy vehicles over the ground. A layer of chips will cut down on soil erosion of bare ground.