Kimball sits about twenty minutes south of St. Cloud, which puts School Section Lake inside weekend range of the Twin Cities without putting it in the Brainerd price bracket. The A-frame here dates to 1970 and is the real thing — roof planes carried down to deck level, glass filling
Estes Park sits at the east gate of Rocky Mountain National Park, and this 1985 A-frame sits above it on 2.82 acres of rock outcropping that backs directly onto National Forest. The roof is carried down to deck level on both flanks under brown shingle, with a pale
Payson sits at about 4,900 feet on the edge of the Mogollon Rim, ninety minutes northeast of Phoenix — close enough that the Valley treats it as a weekend habit rather than a vacation. The Ponderosa Gate House is a 1991 A-frame standing among tall ponderosas on a fenced
Packwood is the last real town before White Pass, and the one Seattle drives through on the way to Mount Rainier. It has a grocery store, a few bars, and an enormous amount of national forest on every side. This 1965 A-frame sits in Timberline, a subdivision tucked into
Bandon sits on the southern Oregon coast, better known now for golf than for anything else. Bandon Dunes arrived about twenty-five years ago and never quite gave the town back. What the resort traffic tends to obscure is the land behind it — shore pine, wind, and parcels still measured
Innsbrook is a gated resort community in Warren County, about an hour west of St. Louis — a few hundred private lakes, a golf course, and a weekend rental market that has been running on city traffic for decades. It is a drive market, and drive markets behave differently than fly
Whitefish sits at the top of the Flathead, eight minutes from a downtown that still reads like a railroad town and eighteen from the Whitefish Mountain Resort base. Most of what gets built up here is chalet or lodge. This is neither. The house is a 2024 A-frame on
Munds Park sits at about 6,500 feet in the ponderosa belt twenty minutes south of Flagstaff, which is where Phoenix goes in August — and why the A-frames here were built large rather than cute. This one, from 1970, is 2,162 square feet under a single steep roof.
You do not drive up to this one. You park on the dirt and walk a wooded path, and the cottage arrives all at once at the end of it — blue-grey, roof carried to the ground, a small railed balcony cut into the gable above the porch, and Crowcroft
Moonridge is the part of Big Bear that sits behind the town rather than on the lake — up past the Alpine Zoo, closer to the base of Bear Mountain than to the marinas. It is where the older cabins are, and where a 722-square-foot A-frame from 1979
Werifesteria is an invented word that means to wander through the forest looking for something. Someone in Miller County, Missouri named a road after it, and then built two A-frames at the end of it. The finished one is small and deliberate. Black board-and-batten outside, glazed straight
Greers Ferry Lake is the kind of water Arkansas keeps mostly to itself — a Corps of Engineers reservoir in the Ozark foothills, clear enough for trout below the dam and quiet enough that lakefront still trades in the four hundreds. This 1988 A-frame sits on 0.59 acres of