Originally Posted by gehajake
electric will be a huge cost as the cabin site is at least a quarter mile thru woods

When we built this place in '07 Boone Electric was giving something like 800' of buried electric per installed meter base.
With a meter on the house and one on the barn there was no up-front cost to bringing in the power.
Be worth a phone call to your co-op to find out if they do the same.