Chris Bacon, right, is pictured with Nancy Wickmark on one of the benches he constructed. Submitted photos CASSADAGA — One of the newest parks in the county has some new benches, thanks to an Eagle ...

Woodland-inspired furniture is all the rage in the hippest of households, so what better way to one-up all your fashionablefriends than by building an awesome log bench with your own bare hands?

Near the top of a newly constructed switchback trail in Muir Woods is an enormous log bench carved from a salvaged ancient redwood trunk. It’s there so hikers in the primeval Marin County forest can ...