diff --git a/conf/cassandra-env.ps1 b/conf/cassandra-env.ps1
index c7ed51fa27..794189f436 100644
--- a/conf/cassandra-env.ps1
+++ b/conf/cassandra-env.ps1
@@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ Function SetCassandraEnvironment
     # times. If in doubt, and if you do not particularly want to tweak, go
     # 100 MB per physical CPU core.
 
-    New-Item -Force -ItemType directory -Path $env:CASSANDRA_HOME/logs/ | Out-Null
     #GC log path has to be defined here since it needs to find CASSANDRA_HOME
     $env:JVM_OPTS="$env:JVM_OPTS -Xloggc:""$env:CASSANDRA_HOME/logs/gc.log"""
 
diff --git a/conf/cassandra-env.sh b/conf/cassandra-env.sh
index 568448bb6f..44fe110b18 100644
--- a/conf/cassandra-env.sh
+++ b/conf/cassandra-env.sh
@@ -121,7 +121,6 @@ case "$jvm" in
         ;;
 esac
 
-mkdir -p ${CASSANDRA_HOME}/logs/
 #GC log path has to be defined here because it needs to access CASSANDRA_HOME
 JVM_OPTS="$JVM_OPTS -Xloggc:${CASSANDRA_HOME}/logs/gc.log"