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
Cascade sits between Lake Cascade and the Payette River, an hour north of Boise and half an hour short of McCall. That last part is a large share of the reason a 1966 A-frame here still asks $244,900 rather than double it. The cabin is 648 square feet
Wrightwood sits in the San Gabriel Mountains, close enough to Los Angeles for a Friday-night drive and ten minutes from the lifts at Mountain High. That geography is the whole case for this 1990 A-frame, which is already operating as a short-term rental that sleeps ten or
Most A-frame listings offer one triangle. This one, on the Lake Almanor peninsula in Westwood, California, offers two. It is a matched pair of 1964 A-frames on a single lot, sold together with a deeded boat slip. Both cabins were gut-renovated around 2000 — HVAC, plumbing and electrical
Sequim sits in the rain shadow of the Olympic Mountains, which is a technical way of saying it is the driest place in western Washington: roughly sixteen inches of rain a year, while the Hoh Rainforest on the far side of the same range takes more than a hundred. Lavender
Leadville, Colorado is the highest incorporated city in the United States, and this 1991 A-frame sits north of town in Beaver Lakes Estates on half an acre of live aspen. The green metal roof runs to grade on both sides — the real thing, not a steep gable pretending. Inside,
A 1972 A-frame in Timber Lakes Estates has come down $40,000 since May, and at $525,000 it is now asking $505 a square foot for 1,040 square feet on a full acre above Heber City, Utah. The shape is the honest kind: a black-stained frame
In Leavenworth, Washington, the cabin is rarely the hard part — the short-term rental permit is. This A-frame up the Chumstick comes with a transferable one, and after a $30,000 price cut on July 28 it is asking $449,000, sold fully furnished. The cabin itself is 864