In winter Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains draw skiers from New York, Delaware, Washington DC, Philadelphia and Baltimore to its six peaks groomed for skiing and boarding.
The mountains are home to Pennsylvania's best ski areas offering visitors a wide range of outdoor winter activities. Read on, you’ll see that these ski resorts are ready and waiting for you.
- Alpine Mountain Ski & Ride Center, in Analomink is a boarder’s delight with its 400 foot long half-pipe and its terrain parks. There are 21 trails for downhill skiing and six shoots for tubing. Snowmaking will not be a problem; the resort has installed state-of-the-art tower mounted snow guns.
- Blue Mountain Ski Area, in Palmerton, near Philadelphia, offers 14 slides for snow tubing, three lifts, and single, double and group tubes for family fun. Down hill skiers can shush along any of the 30 trails.
- Camelback, in Tannersville, with its 800’ vertical drop is not for the faint of heart. The 33 trails offer rugged skiing at its best. For boarders a hit this season is sure to be the new 300 feet long 13 foot high walled half-pipe, which will be kept expertly groomed by the new Zaugg Pipe groomer from Switzerland.
- Jack Frost Mountain and Big Boulder Ski Area in Blakeslee and Lake Harmony, are the granddaddies of ski areas in the Pocono’s. It’s all here; a combined total of 17 tubing chutes, five terrain parks, miles of downhill trails (to many to count!) and 10,000 feet of new snowmaking pipe.
- Shawnee Mountain, in Shawnee on Delaware, is close to metro New York. The 23 trails, the longest of which is 5,100 feet, give you a great run. As will the 3000 foot Bushkill Super Park for boarders. A new addition this year is the SKIwee Bowl Teaching area, a specially designed teaching terrain for beginners and novices.
- Ski Big Bear at Masthope Mountain, in Lackawaxen, caters to novice skiers and boarders and young families with a variety of terrains that allow for a slow, gentle progression up the trails to the top.
Pocono Mountains snow info hotline 1-570-421-5565 www.poconoski.com
Pocono Mountains visitor information is available at www.800poconos.com 800-762-6667
