Okay, this is a big log cabin! The fireplace weighs 500 tons and is 85 feet tall.
It is of course the six-story lobby of The Old Faithful Inn built in 1903-4.
I have a fever for all kinds of cabins.
They remind me of pioneers, fortitude and the American West.
There seems to be living history you can feel in the real old ones that are still in use.
Jim loves experiencing this too.
We like to stay in cabins and imagine a simpler, more natural world.
With fire for warmth, log walls for safety and wild animals as constant companions.
At home in the wilderness…..
Can you imagine what it was like to travel like a pioneer, stake out a claim, and build your cabin?
Okay, okay, there would be no wi-fi, no indoor plumbing, no grocery stores.
Can you imagine NO WIFI…..Ever????
I can bare knuckle it for 10 days max.
Cheers to you from the, almost wild, WiFi-west~
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Lovely old log cabins!
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I really do love staying in log cabins in the mountains, even if they don’t have wifi!
What a cool place to stay. In modern times, anyway. 😉
The max I have survived without wifi is 10 days, after this point, the withdrawal might get ugly…..
Haha. That’s how it is when we go on a cruise. Too expensive to pay money on their slow wifi. On the other hand, that forced disconnect can be kind of nice.
It is nice, for ten days! Mainly because like any addict, you learn you CAN live without it! 😉 😉
Thank you for the beautiful pictures!
Awwww, thank you for appreciating them!
I would love to stay here too Cindy. The log cabin is beautiful! Photos are as always….stunning. Blessings and peace!
Visa versa 2 U X 2 & Happy Friday 2! <3
Happy Friday to you as well. Stay safe my friend!!!!
I’d like to have that kind of cabin fever too! Instantly cured though in a cabin like these 🙂 Great shots, as always, Cindy!
I simply love log cabins and have since I was a kid. There is somethng about the mountains and a cabin…..
I find cabins charming as well. I dream of having a little writer’s retreat – table, wood stove and bunk. Yeah, but you’re right… I’d miss the wifi! 😉
You’d have to pick a cabin that has wifi for a long term comittment. Suprisingly there are such in some very isolated and gorgeous natural areas. Just in case you’re serious!
A dream come true! 😉
WOW what a cabin! I love it 🙂
It is the penultimate example of the “Golden Age” of rustic architecture.
Agreed! ^.^/
The one at Old Faithful is astonishing. Wow. I live in a log cabin…with WIFI. I love it (except for dusting the logs!) Needless to say, mine are dusty 🙂 Over the summer I was in Colorado and we visited a cabin that was only about 100 years old. It was tiny and about 6 people lived there. A hard life back then. Thanks for the great pics!
Oh, yes the dusting. Now that you mention it, I have stayed in dusty-log, log cabins. I bet it would be difficult to try and dust. You would need a long handled swifter! And you’re right about the cramped quarters long ago, think of dug-outs with log faces and dirt floors AND no wifi! Ssheech!! We almost moved into a big log cabin in Oregon. I think dusting would be well worth it!
Once a year I pull all the furniture from the walls and bring in a step ladder 🙂 But you’re right, worth the warmth.
This looks like a great place to escape! I cannot believe they don’t have WiFi, Cindy. I would think that there would be business retreats held here where professionals would need to stay connected. Good luck with your fortitude! 🙂
Nope Old Faithful has no wifi and is really rather rustic. Sonw Lodge next door is modern and his wifi and is open all winter long.
So happy you like things like that:)
Oh I love it! <3
Hi Cuz,
Glad you included the pics of the Old Faithfull Inn. It really doesn’t look any different from the last time I saw it. It is a marvelous piece of rustic architecture, isn’t it ? Did you do the geyser basin and Morning Glory, maybe ? Or am I getting ahead of the plan here ? ….. 🙂 Ha!
I was going to post yellowstone itself first before this, you are psychically in tune cuz. Of course we do geyser basin everytime. My visits to Morning Glory started at around age six, which was a couple of years ago, of course…..um hmmm… We did Yellowstone Lake Hotel, and Mammoth Springs too, both Hayden and Lamar Valley. We’ve got Yellowstone covered for you cuz! <3
Lookin’ forward to it, Cindy
Wow I’m impressed… I was there when I was a kid…
It is pretty awesome. I wonder what it would be like in the winter!
Can you get there in winter?
A while ago, when Bill and I were young, we were “roughing it” in the old wild west. That was before cell phones and even before computers. Your post reminds me of those good days when we lived in cabins or shacks or A-frames. Now I miss those days and those places and have stories to tell. Wish there had been blogging then. 🙂
You have mentioned living in the mountains in cabins, with a newborn at one point, limited facilities, while Bill was doing land surverying/land engineering work? You have written a little about it, but frankly I, and everyone else would like to hear more. It sounds incredible. Weren’t you in the Sierras at one point? Might you write more about it? You write so beautifully and I would love to hear about your experiences.
What an awesome post! I love the wood of a cabin. And with the wilderness you must be having a great time! Peace and have an excellent weekend!
We have been home at The Holler for a few weeks now, but we had an awesome time. There is nothing like a log cabin in the wilderness!
Hi Dear Cindy, I love Cabins to… I love Montana, and I love you site.. I had My own Cabin…it was a fine dining restaurant in the Chicago suburb. When I was I little girl Calamity Jane always made me want my own Cabin so I could fix it all up Like she did… I finally got. had it for 15 years..was a baby and took to a big big baby.. sold it.. just tired..
Thanks for the memories…reblog..of course…lol
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Oh my goodness, a log cabin, fine dining restaurant in the Chicago suburbs!! Tell me more, tell me more…..
Cindy, I would love to. Thru my moves and I had a my house burn down in the 90’s so I lost a lot of the pictures ..but I think I have some in my computer left..and more info…not today but soon.. I am so trying to catch up with everything… Your so kind and so appreciated Cindy
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That inn is a magnificent example log architecture on a grand scale. We don’t have many log buildings out here. Most of the historic buildings are adobe, brick or frame construction.
I love the adobes though! But yes, I am not sure if The Old Faithful Inn is the largest log structure in the world, but it may be. It is an engineering and architectual marvel. Amazing that it has withstood all the seismic activity in the area. It was well built and designed.
How wonderful! Where is this? Is love to visit some day. That fireplace is huge! No wifi?? Yikes!
Hehehe! Your priorites and thinking process go just like mine. Amazing, I’m going. No wifi…..Yee Gods, what am I doing???? The first two photos were taken at The Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone. It has no wifi, but the adjacent Snow Lodge does. The other photos were taken in cabins on the border of Glacier National Park. I hope you do go. I want to see your photos!
You’ll laugh at this. We took a cruise to Alaska and I purchased internet minutes for $1,000 for one week!! We were in the Tracy arm viewing that glacier and I was posting on Facebook! After being outside on the deck viewing of course. How ridiculous am I? I would love to go to Yellowstone and see this big beautiful country of ours! More than just the big cities. Good luck. Loool
Yes! I just love homes that are more naturally sourced! That’s my dream right there – just a tiny home in the woods somewhere. I am, of course, awestruck by the big log cabin. However, I don’t think I could keep up with all the housekeeping, plus the vastness would make me feel like I’m walking through Lord of the Ring’s MInes of Moria all the time! 😀 ~Lynn
Yes, I get the Mines of Moria feeling. This vast log cabin of a hotel closes in the winter. I can well imagine Balrog and the evil goblins running rampant in the winter killing all that is good. No dice for me either. No evil goblins thank you. But I can see you in a cabin in the mountains, near a small town for supplies living quite happily, because quite honestly, I can see me doing the same thing. We tend to agree on things as you have noticed. <3
Yes, yes! Gandalf the Grey had great reason to fear what was lurking in those mines!
And yes, we have similar thoughts and preferences! Thanks for indulging my imagination. <3 ~Lynn
And you mine! <3
Beautiful post as always Cindy 😀
I think that one week in those cabins would be enough for me.
I have lived isolated in the mountains here in Spain without Wi-Fi for long time. When I bought Wi-Fi I committed to pay for at least one year. I lived there for a half year without electricity, only had a very expensive generator in use, so only electricity few hours a day.
Whoa, that is intense! I genuinely would not do well without wifi for an extended period. We have connectivity issues at The Holler because we are in a isolated rural location. No electricity, expensive generator, and no wifi for a long time sounds like a major challenge though. You are tough! Your place is so beautiful though, I can see why you sacrifice for it. Incredible. I admire you and I am glad you told me.
Who needs Wi-Fi when the stars fill the sky?
Yes, they are freaking amazing aren’t they, with no ambient light pollution wrecking the show!
No I cannot imagine traveling in a covered wagon it took 6 months to get anywhere and that was if you didn’t run into all sorts of Indians and outlaws! I love these cabins Cindy and that fireplace is amazing! 💜💜
The architect who built the Old Faithful Inn was really young at the time and obviously brilliant!
OH yes I agree with you! So amazing when you see these things! So wonderful you take the most wonderful trips! 😀
I love a small living space but a cabin probably wouldn’t suit me if logs get dusty as one commenter said. And I would definitely want wifi!
I have stayed in log cabins with dusty logs. Each log is like a ledge that captures dust. I really had never thought about this until she told me. And yep, we are now addicted to the digital world!
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Thanks for your kind visit my blog. Best regards and have a nice weekend.
You too. Do you like log cabins?
As you know, I lived in Northern Canada. Those cabins were cozy and warm, when the bitter wind chill brought the temperature to minus 45. There are times, when I long to feel that cold, but only for a few moments! 🙂
You must have such amazing memories. The coldest I have been in was -50 below with wind chill factor. It was in the Grand Tetons. Interestingly, Jim was staying and skiing there at the same time, but we didn’t know each other. He remembers me on the lift the day they shut down the mountain because of the cold. -45 is sooooo cold, it is almost scary. Even breathing gets dangerous. I remember having oil heaters for the car and still it wouldn’t start. I am amazed you miss that kind of cold even for a second, but you lived with it and knew what you were doing. Coming from So Cal that kinda cold is just scary!
So beautiful 🙂 . My dream is I could buy wood house.
I hope you do! They are economical to buy, cool in the hot summer months, and retain heat in the winter.Plus they are just so homey!
When I win the lottery I’m building myself a log cabin – catskill (design) – it’s a design I’ve always loved. But now I think I just might put in that chimney!
Oh my God, if you can put in a chimney like that, you must post photos. It is so gorgeous. I am going to google the catskill design now. We stayed in Northern Quebec in the north woods once by a lake and people were buuilding gorgeous, big lake front cabins. I don’t know about the lotto, but I hope you build your cabin.
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So clever and now thanks to you, I can do it too, but not in color!
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Nice home and place, the first looks like Robinson’s house
Do you mean Swiss family Robinson? It does a bit, with all the rustic levels.
I would love to live in one of these cabins!!
Yep, we almost did. I wonder if we made the right decision…….
Only you can answer that one, Cindy…..
Funny – we have stayed in similar cabins – the Smokies for a family reunion and in Kansas for the other side of the family. They just have a cozy, warm feeling to them 🙂
They do and they carry with them this indefinable contentment, as if we were somehow meant to live in them.
Lovely photos of such differing log cabins. Each one has it’s own charm.
They reflect the people who built them. Everything is not mass manafactured, like the two story old cabin. I bet the builder was Swiss because they have this style of cabin in the Alps. The animals would sleep on the bottom floor providing heat for upstairs and shelter for the animals.
They’re fabulous. I’ve often said that I would never have made it as a pioneer. I can’t imagine the hardships they endured. Then I had someone say, if the pioneers could have seen our challenges, they would have said the same thing about our time. I would imagine that’s a pretty accurate statement! HA! 😀
Actually it really is accurate. Can you imagine their reaction to our monthly epidemic of mass school shootings? They would harnass up their wagons and retreat far, far into the wilderness and I would try to follow them!
I’d be right there beside you!
My favorite vacation is staying in a cabin near water. Loved these pics.
Yep, magical! <3
I would think I survive without connected to internet, phone and TV (especially with football season and my favorite TV shows). That would need a heavy rehab for me. I think I would need 14 steps (as opposed to typical 7 steps) 🙂 I still like to experience as short visit as these here. Nice pictures of the places.
I love it! 14 Steps! I will have to help you come up with the additonal two and if we were both living permanently in a cabin with no wifi we would both need it! 😉 😉
Beautiful photos Cindy. I love the National Park lodges, they are so impressive. I’ve visited a few and I’ve stayed in Paradise Lodge a couple of times. You did a great job of capturing the feel of that structure.
Yes these magnificent old park lodges and hotels are simply amazing, each one so individualistic and remarkable with these fascinating histories! People have been innundating them since they were first built. Many you have to book a year in advance, but it is worth it as you know.
Beautiful, interesting pictures, Cindy. What a fireplace!
I can’t even get over how Robert Reamer (the architect) desgined a fireplace and a sloping log roof that has survived seismic activity for over a hundred years!
As amazing as it is beautiful.
I love log cabins. That first one is amazing.
It is probably the most remarkable one I have ever seen~
I like the cabins ,Cindy. 🙂
Thank you and happy Saturday Ranu!
Me too! Me too! Thanks for the great photos; as you always post.
Considering the direction our country is sliding, violence, and then more violence, living far off in the mountains is seeming more and more enticing!
These images of the Old Faithful Inn are impressive, Cindy! Beautiful cabins. We plan to revisit Wy next year. 🙂
I always wonder how the pioneers traveled…
10-15 miles per day. Simply incredible. I look forward to you photos of Wyoming!
I think how “romantic” it would be in the wild west — getting to ride a horse everywhere and seeing the pristine wilderness. But then I think of my head cold I have and how nice it was to turn on the electric stove to make a cup of tea rather than going out to chop the wood to start the woodstove to heat the water I drew from the well to make the beverage from leaves I gathered in the woods. I’m exhausted just thinking about it. 😀
Plus there is making soap, living without fresh produce much of the year, making clothes, no running water. We would last a couple of days!
There certainly wasn’t the need for fitness centers back then. 😀
Wunderschöne Fotos lieber Gruß und ein gutes Wochenende lieber Gruß und Umarmung Gislinde
Herzliche GruBe an euch, liebe Gislinde! Ich werde in Deutschland bald die Fotos zu sein! <3
Love it. My husband’s grandmother traveled in a covered wagon to the Idaho when she was a girl and lived to see the first man on the moon…… amazing progress in one lifetime.
Beautiful pictures. 😀
That is incredible! I hope someone got her narrative history. These women’s stories need to be aired and preserved!
I agree.
I have the same affinity for them Cindy. So I now have a little 6′ by 12′ cabin in my backyard. It feels good being there.
How cool is that! Might you post photos?
Oh….if I come across some ‘good’ ones. 🙂 I just might! 🙂
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I love log cabins…this brought back so many wonderful memories, especially the interior shots…..exactly what it feels like to be indoors, by the stove…..
Yes, a natural rocky mountain high that is so good for our hearts, minds and bodies! <3
Yes! Wonderful feeling of being warm and snug inside with the cold winter outside. I spent a fair amount of time thinking about it must have been like for the guests in 1904. They approached by sled after taking the train. They called the place Wonderland and it must have been just that, especially in the winter!
What a wonderful place and I am so spoiled and could not imagine life with out electric heat and wifi.
It some ways it has wrecked us, because it has made us dependent on having money and living in civilization. We would be better off I bet if we weren’t dependent on these things and could self sustain somewhere beautiful.
I agree an d no arguments there. I remember the days without wifi and all of these devices and I was much thinner.
Laughing!! So true. I just can’t eat much these days!
Charming cabins and superb photography!! I have often dreamed of living in a cozy log cabin! 🙂 In my recent post, you saw the little replica of a Conestoga wagon, Little House on the Prairie style!
Have a lovely weekend!
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I think many of us have a sense of having lost something important by being dependent on civilization with all it’s discontents. Being able to be self sufficient in a cabin or conestoga I suspect was good for us in deeply spiritual/psychological way. It also would be very hard, but working 40 hours a week with someone you don’t like is probably much worse.
The hardest thing I feel about those times was just not surviving day to day but unless you had neighbors somewhat close, you would go months even years without talking or visiting anyone except those you brought with you. We humans tend to be social animals except for a few of us that love the solitude. Having no WiFi would isolate a modern human even more especially in this country.
Yes, complete, long-term isolation would take a significant toll on anyone. That said, people vary significantly in their degree of introversion/extroversion. For an extrovert isolation would tend to be unpleasant to untenable depending on the degree. An introvert thrives in more isolated circumstances. We are social creatures to a degree, but we are not psychologically well adapted to crowding. Crime, violence and substance abuse rates go up in areas of residential crowding. Baldasarri did landmark studies on this that I remember from grad school. He wrote a book, “Residential Crowding in Urban America.” Something like that. Obviously it stuck with me all these years
“just sitting on the dock of the bay” ~~ 🙂
It’s a nice way to live! 🙂