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Shipping Container Homes: All You Need to Know Before Buying & Building
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Shipping Container Homes

Pros & cons, what you should know and need to know, plus some $$ saving pro tips from the builder and owner of the world's most famous container home

A-frame House Guide: History, Benefits, Building Tips & Kits to Buy
A Definitive Guide to the A-Frame House: How to Build & More

A comprehensive rundown of all things A-frame—from structural benefits to what to know before buying, building, or renting one yourself

11 Best Film Cameras of 2024 (For Photographers of Any Experience)
The 11 Best Film Cameras for Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Photographers

All you need to know about the most legendary, underrated, and rightly hyped 35mm and 120 medium format rangefinders, SLRs, and point & shoot cameras

Geodesic Dome Guide: From EPCOT to Everest, Hippie to Yuppie
How One Great Inventor Changed the World With a Geodesic Camping Tent

Utopian architecture to camping equipment, here's how Bucky Fuller's greatest design changed the world—and how you can build a dome of your own today

How to Build a DIY Hot Tub in Your Backyard: Step-by-Step Guide
A Step-by-Step DIY Guide to Building Your Own Backyard Hot Tub

Materials, tools, and clear and complete instructions on building your own off-grid wood fired hot tub for around $2,000

Best Sustainable Backpacking Meals: Minimize Waste in the Backcountry
A Responsible Buyer's Guide to Zero-Waste Backpacker Meals

No-or-low-waste camping meals and backpacking food does exists. Here's what to look for, how to avoid greenwashing, plus five companies to support

Big Wave Surfer Kai Lenny on Risk, Fear, and Surfing 60-Foot Waves
Big Wave Surfer Kai Lenny on Risk, Fear, and Surfing 60-Foot Waves

A Q&A with the world-class surfer on his new book, "Big Wave Surfer," the best advice he's ever received and the worst wipeout he's ever taken at Jaws

Everything to Know About Cabin Kits, From Cost to Construction
So You Want to Buy a Cabin Kit? Here's Everything You Need to Know

From costs and selecting the right kit for you and your land working with contractors or going full DIY, this definitive guide

Best Tents for Camping and Backpacking: All You Need to Know
The Ultimate Guide to Finding the Right Tent for Camping & Backpacking

An ultimate guide for tents, including tent materials, tent sizes, the best tents for each use, types of tents, and 10 tents tested and approved by us

A Local's Guide to Hiking, Climbing & Camping in Snowdonia, Wales
A Local's Guide to Snowdonia: One of the UK's Most Stunning Mountain Landscapes

An in-depth guide for post pandemic exploration of one of the UK's most impressive mountain landscapes

10 Outdoor Books by BIPOC Writers to Expand Your Perspective
10 Outdoors Books by BIPOC Writers to Add to Your Summer Reading List

Educate yourself with these books on environmental justice, structural racism, and outdoor experiences by Black, Indigenous, and POC writers

Q&A: @YouDidNotSleepThere on Instagram's Illogical Campsites
@YouDidNotSleepThere Celebrates Instagram's Worst Campsites

Meet the 28-year-old Canadian woman calling out social media's kookiest campers for fun, and earning enemies in the process