Most people who have spent a weekend in the Pocono Mountains in October will tell you the same thing: they should have been doing it for years. The homes are available. The trails are uncrowded. The air coming off Lake Harmony in the evening has a coolness that summer simply cannot produce. And the mountains, which spend June through August being quietly scenic in the background, suddenly become the entire...
Summer does not go quietly in the Pocono Mountains. It goes out on the water, around a fire pit, with 22 people sharing a chef’s kitchen and someone already asking about next year. Labor Day weekend is the Poconos at its fullest. The humidity has softened. The light has shifted from white to amber. The trails are dry, the lake is still warm enough to swim, and the Lehigh River...
