The pier, which opened in 2013, has 330 feet of boardwalk and space to dock 17 boats to a series of floating piers. But the main pier structure, its walkway made of wood from the massaranduba tree, native to Central and South America, connects the floating docks to land and is anchored by 21 massive steel columns, each with a cone to prevent the columns from being crushed by lake ice.
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