Learn how to build a cabin in the wilderness by watching the wind and light rotate through the property and following a cabin build from conception to completion. Long before I used string on stakes ...

Aaron Monson, 46, spent the past five winters building an off-grid cabin in Hawaii. Monson, who is from Minnesota, bought a three-acre plot of land on the Big Island for $16,000 in 2019. He says he ...

It would be a simple building surrounded by pines, maybe 400 square feet, with bookshelves, a woodstove and a sleeping loft. A trail would lead to the lake and you’d pad along it barefoot, inhaling ...

Bob Rea always knew that installing cabins at Detroit Lake State Park would be popular with visitors. Now he has proof. The park’s collection of “mini cabins,” first opened in 2023 and recently ...

Paying homage to the long-dead Transcendentalist, some people are building full-scale replicas of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden cabin. Jim and Rachel Van Eerden’s “Walden”-inspired cabin in Stokesdale, ...

Winter is the reward that nature gives desert dwellers for surviving the dragon-breath days of summer. For the next few months, the desert feels so deliciously mild there’s not much reason to leave.