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Safari-Style Camping in Colorado, Glam Bedding Included
It was on a Kenyan safari that the owners of Cresto Ranch in Cresto, a tiny town in southwestern Colorado, figured out a new use for their historic property: they'd pitch African-style canvas tents in...
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Required Reading: Wilderness Route Finder
When writer Calvin Rutstrum's Wilderness Route Finder was published in 1967, it was described in the New York Times, rather drily, as "a camping guide." That was putting it mildly. Chapter One of the...
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10 Secret Outdoor Swimming Holes
When the sun comes out, UK natives tend to lose the plot. They dress inappropriately and look for somewhere, anywhere, to cool off. The heat wave we've been hoping for has finally happened this summer,...
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Into the Woods: A Cabin on Flathead Lake
In western Montana, on the southern shore of the biggest freshwater water lake west of the Mississippi River are 200-foot-tall Ponderosa pine trees, osprey nests, and a cabin sitting atop a sheer...
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Best Made Co. at 36 White Street
If you haven't felt the solid weight of an axe in your hands recently, we suggest a visit to Best Made Co.'s new shop in downtown Manhattan. Designer Peter Buchanan-Smith founded Best Made Company in...
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Camping Gets Glamorous: Shelter Co. in California
It was bound to happen: a California events company takes camping to the next level, with European canvas tents, Pendleton blankets, leather butterfly chairs—sommelier optional. Husband and wife team...
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Gear Patrol: 10 Best Sleeping Bags for Backpacking
"Sleeping bag tech has made its way into the space age," say our friends at Gear Patrol, camping aficionados and world's most discerning judges of outdoor equipment. "Your 20-year-old sleeping bag from...
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Extreme Cycling in Norway, Sauna and Hot Tub Included
Not for the faint of heart: the Canvas Hotel, featuring extreme cycling in Norway. Founded by a Norwegian mountain bike enthusiast, the resort offers guided biking (for all levels) throughout the...
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Gone Wild: How to Grow Vegetables in the Middle of Nowhere
As an urban gardener with two measly window boxes to my name, my most vivid daydreams involve waltzing out to a vegetable garden to find tomatoes and salad greens going gangbusters. There'd be a peach...
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5 Favorites: Classic Oil Lanterns
An entertaining essential for post-sunset affairs: here are our top five oil lanterns for the stylish camper. Above: Toast's Storm Lantern is made in Germany from blue powdercoated steel with a glass...
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Design Sleuth: Exotic Tropical House Plant
Yesterday on Remodelista we featured an Antwerp bed-and-breakfast establishment that unapologetically celebrates a style we think of as faded glory meets Wes Anderson. Essential to the Boulevard...
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The New Superfood?
A new ancient grain is edging out quinoa as a life-extending superfood (at least in my house): amaranth. Amaranth and quinoa both are high in protein, can be milled into flour (a complex carbohydrate...
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Fisher Blacksmithing Tools for the Gardener
What do you get when a blacksmith from Montana discovers a passion in gardening? A line of gorgeous, hand-forged, heirloom-quality garden tools. Above: Made in Bozeman, Montana, by Tuli Fisher (Fisher...
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5 Best American Peaks to Climb
Our friend Jason Heaton over at Gear Patrol has rounded up a list of the five best American peaks to climb. He writes, "Moutaineering can be an intimidating sport to get into: all that gear, the...
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DIY: Amaranth Banana Bread
The only problem with my grandmother's banana bread—perhaps the most delicious thing I ever tasted, by the way—is that a more accurate description of it would have been banana cake. With white flour,...
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Required Reading: Rock the Shack
In Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons, and Hide-Outs, Sofia Borges and Sven Ehmann describe how for the first time, city dwellers outnumber people living in rural areas. The antidote...
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Roof Garden: Cottages in the Mill Valley Forest
On a steep, wooded lot in Mill Valley, California, the challenge was to add two studio spaces—one for an artist, one for yoga—without disturbing the soaring redwood trees surrounding an existing main...
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How To Stay Alive in the Woods
This handsome reprint of Bradford Angiers' 1965 classic How to Stay Alive in the Woods has been popping up on shop shelves lately and it's caught our eye, too. The guide is full of straightforward,...
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Back on the Grid: 11 Labor Day Obsessions
Snoop Dogg is a gardener (who knew?), Picasso's house and garden are for sale, and we almost missed it all because we spent the week in The Wilderness: Camping this weekend? Bundle up and eat well....
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5 Books to Read in a Hammock Today
Last lazy weekend of summer? Here are five books good enough to keep you awake even while you're lying in a hammock: Above: Photograph by Erin Boyle. Here are cocktail-friendly plants from the garden...
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