Now 156 years old, Atlantic City's boardwalk is the oldest and longest in the country

Name: Now 156 years old, Atlantic City's boardwalk is the oldest and longest in the country
Uploaded: 2026-08-19T07:03:00-0400
Duration: 1 min 33 s
Description: The Atlantic City Boardwalk started as a novel way to keep sand, which is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere, out of the resort town's hotel lobbies and train cars. Today the first boardwalk in the country is also the longest. Ryan Hughes has more.

The Atlantic City Boardwalk started as a novel way to keep sand, which is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere, out of the resort town's hotel lobbies and train cars. Today the first boardwalk in the country is also the longest. Ryan Hughes has more.