Some postcards of the old Roaring Branch cabins.

Roaring Branch Cabins Postcards.

 

Old post card of an Adirondack Lean-to

Just for fun.

This project - Where it all began.

Many years ago I had the privilege of working at an High Adventure Base in Maine. Right on the boundary of Baxter State Park.

Wilderness, lakes, rivers, wildlife and one of the best places to camp anywhere.
I, needless to say, fell in love with the area.

Depending on which way you are going, Baxter State Park is either your finish or your start to the Appalachian Trail.

And one of my favorite places to camp in the park is Katahdin Stream Campground.

Surrounded by trees, right along Katahdin Stream, the campsite is ideally placed for one of the best hikes up Mt. Katahdin.

 The entrance has this view of Mt. Katahdin, but the campsites soon take you into the woods.

 And way back in about 1978 is the first time I got to experience an Adirondack shelter like the one pictured here at Katahdin Stream campground.

These are ideal for sleeping in and looking out at the woods, and hearing the stream just beyond your picnic table.
If it is a rainy evening, a great place to hang your lantern and read a book.
Up off the ground, nice and dry.

 The closeness to others allow for visiting with like minded campers, yet far enough apart to be private.
And usually when I go there are not many people around anyway.

 Here in autumn colors.

Although built of much smaller logs than the ones I am using, this is where I got the idea to begin with.

While this campground is not the only one in the park that has these, these are the ones I think about the most.

 And a great place to hang things up to dry.















An old post card of Katahdin Stream Campground.

And look, even the ranger station is made out of logs.

I have also stayed in these shelters (below) at South Branch Pond. . .

. . . as well as some at Nesowadnehunk Field, both in Baxter State Park.

(These at South Branch are my second favorite, but much closer to where I worked near the park.)
Although also built of logs, the building style is a little different.

The log cabins of Mr. Lincoln

A friend of mine use to call these 'Twiggers' - log cabin motels

When routes like the famous Rt 66 started transporting vacationers further away from home, small log cabin motels started to spring up.
Fairly inexpensive to put up and maintain they offered a rustic retreat for families on the road.

Some of my earliest vacation memories (which I have written about in earlier posts) were spent in a log cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks.

This weekend while driving to a birthday party for daughter in one of the busier sections of our fair town I came across the following log structures.

 While I don't know the history of these particular buildings, the style and the fact that a number appears on one of the doors would suggest at one time it was a road side motel/cottage.

A number 3 is on the front door of this one.

 These next 3 images are different views of the above cabin.

Usually made of smaller cedar or pine logs, not much effort was put into hewing the logs or making them uniform. You can see that in the wavy chinking.
Small logs were easy to find, easy to move and lift.

Where some of the older hewn logs took about 5 or 6 logs to make one story, these take about 12 or 13.

 This is the second cabin.

 The two shown together.

 This is the cabin at the entrance of the place. The third cabin.
I would suggest it wast the office for the motel complex at one time witht he bigger front window and front porch.

All three are in good shape and well taken care of.















Following are a few more log cabin road side stops.

And a couple from my childhood vacation area, Osage Beach Mo.

And the next one is the vacation one we used in the 60's.

Dad on the porch and brother in the chair.

And here is the post card from the camp.

These two old images remind me of a couple of the Post Cards from an earlier post.

Post Cards of old log cabins

Here us some info on this one.