Top Things to do in Pocono Mountains Region
Top Hotels in Pocono Mountains Region
- 1. Best Western Plus Wilkes Barre-Scranton Airport Hotel
- 2. Mount Airy Casino Resort Spa
- 3. Pocono Palace Resort
- 4. Hampton Inn & Suites Stroudsburg Pocono Mountains
- 5. The Woodlands Inn, Ascend Hotel Collection
- 6. Hampton Inn Lehighton-Jim Thorpe
- 7. Holiday Inn Express & Suites Drums-Hazleton (I-80), an IHG Hotel
- 8. Cove Haven Resort
- 9. Camelback Lodge and Indoor Waterpark
- 10. Paradise Stream Resort
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Top 5 Hiking Trails in Pocono Mountains Region, Pocono Mountains Region
A green canvas of wooded hills and valleys, this region is a recreation haven in the summer for fishing, hunting, mountain hiking, horseback riding and whitewater rafting as well as a popular winter sports destination. When you add in casino gaming, a major racetrack and phenomenal golf courses, the Pocono Mountains region appeals to, well, just about everybody.
For the outdoors enthusiast, the Pocono Mountains have everything you need and desire. There are seven state parks in the region as well as one national park, the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Automobile racing fans love to visit the Pocono Raceway, which hosts several major races every year. Skiers and snowboarders gravitate to major resort areas like Camelback Ski Area, Jack Frost Mountain and Big Boulder and the Shawnee Mountain Ski area. For golfers, the Pocono Mountains features courses designed by legendary icons like Donald Ross and A.W. Tillinghast and modern designers such as Jack Nicklaus and Robert Trent Jones. There are 35 courses in the region highlighted by two of the highest rated, Jack Frost National and Woodloch Springs.
Restaurants in Pocono Mountains Region
1. Pocono Environmental Education Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 93 reviews
Learn Naturally! The Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is the perfect place for learning, exploring, getting away, and connecting. With 6 hiking trails, weekend educational programs, and summer camp, PEEC is a great place for nature lovers of all ages, families, friends, photographers, youth and adult groups, scouts, students, and teachers. An independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, PEEC is the education partner of the National Park Service in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. PEEC's mission is to advance environmental education, sustainable living, and appreciation for nature through hands-on experience in a national park.
Reviewed By DEP3 - Binghamton, United States
Did a Sunday Labor Day weekend outing with our 2,4, and 6 year olds. PEEC is both literally and figuratively a breath of fresh air during these trying Covid times. Lots of different trails, from easy to more challenging. Staff at PEEC is very helpful at its visitor center to guiding you. There are maps for each trail, with information about the flora and fauna at each of the numbered stops on the trails. Picnic tables, parking, lots of taxidermy and fossils inside the center. We did the trail around the two ponds and saw canoers and kayakers; looked like equipment was provided gratis, with two attendants overseeing everything. Kids loved the trail and the various colored mushrooms as well as the uprooted large trees, and just being in the outdoors on a beautiful day.Not terribly crowded when we were there at around 2:30pm. Clean and safe with just about everyone very mask- conscious. Definitely worth a visit when in the Delaware Water Gap area- with kids or without. But the kids truly enjoyed this outing as much as we did.
2. Glen Onoko Falls Trail
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 79 reviews
Reviewed By pattchansa - New Brunswick, United States
very neat place to visit. See nice trees and go outside for a walk. It had walk by the river to see water.
3. Pocono Heritage Land Trust
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 2 reviews
Here in the Poconos, nature fills our lives. Traveling through this landscape means crossing bridges over sparkling trout streams, world-class views from Mt. Pocono, Camelback, Delaware Water Gap, and other special natural places that enrich our days and our lives. Pocono Heritage Land Trust offers a connection to the power of nature through educational programs that embrace ecotherapy.
4. Wallenpaupack Lake Trail
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 12 reviews
Reviewed By jdoris922 - Levittown, United States
Lake Wallenpaupack visitor center is beautiful and the ppl working there are very helpful. After already walking the Tafton damn trail (a beautiful well maintained trail on top of the Tafton dam) my wife and I decided to go into the visitor center and see if their were any other short trails we could easily hike. After talking to the very nice girl at the desk of the visitor center and getting a trail map, amongst many other pamphlets, we decided to hike the lake trail to the nature center. Well the trees are all changing and going midweek means you basically have the area to yourself! We saw an eagle, 2 osprey, along the lake as well as lots of squirrels and geese. Both trails are well maintained, easy to follow, flat and short. We started bothtrails just behind the visitor center. To the left, Tafton dam trail is compacted tiny stone and approx 1 mile round trip, to the right the lake trail leads to the nature center and is approx 1.5 miles round trip. Mostly compacted mulch. Best time to go is spring, fall weekday. Great pictures of sunset from the dam.
