Make sure your fireplace is prepped and the flue damper is open. Then, start stacking firewood using either the log cabin or ...

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 ...

Be sure to get your tinder, kindling, and firewood ready ahead of time. If you own a fire pit you should stock a supply of ...

Wes Siler is your guide to leading a more exciting life in the great outdoors. As Outside’s outdoor lifestyle columnist, he writes about the intersections of science, news, politics, gear, vehicles ...

You can choose to build the fire in a cross, teepee, or log-cabin structure. “My favorite structures are the cross-stack/pyramid (with progressively smaller logs) and the lean-to since you can easily ...

Some 20 years ago I built a log cabin the old way. It was a group effort; we were learning how to build a cabin from nationally known log cabin builder, Peter Gott. The cabin building project was ...

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.

At the age of 81, Charles “Mac” McRaven still can swing a goosewing broadax with the authority of a young Abe Lincoln. Through the decades, the Albemarle County author and master craftsman has built ...