Tasha Zemke is Outside magazine’s associate managing editor and a member of the Outside Online travel team. She's also an avid world traveler. Josh Drinkard always wanted to build his own cabin.

Learn how to build a log cabin from trees on a budget using local materials, traditional hand tools, and hard work while embracing the land. Living in a cozy little cabin nestled in the woods is part ...

Summertime and the living is, well, hot—which makes a roaring campfire a bit of a problem. But if you lay the right foundation, you can build a great summer blaze that puts out plenty of light with ...

Do you know the history of a favorite toy from your childhood, Lincoln Logs? In the 1860s, Joel Ellis of Springfield, Vermont designed a new toy called “Log Cabin Playhouse". Almost fifty years later, ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Abraham Lincoln was born to ...

It is the most famous log cabin in American history, and it doesn’t really matter that it floats in the strange region between solid history and make believe. The visitors’ car park to the Abraham ...