There is one weekend a year when everyone actually shows up. Not the cousins who usually cancel, not half the family on a video call from three states away; all of them, in one house, at one table. Thanksgiving is the trip that carries the most weight for a big family, and it is also the one that punishes a house that was never built to hold twenty-plus people at...
There is a hike within an hour of Lake Harmony for whoever is coming on this trip. Flat, easy walks for grandparents and small kids. A couple of solid medium options with a real payoff. And two honest challenges for anyone who wants to work for the view. Here they are, organized by level, plus one option for the group that would rather not hike at all. Easy Austin T....
Most people who have spent a weekend in the Pocono Mountains in September or 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 can’t produce. And the mountains, which spend June through August being quietly scenic in the background, suddenly become...
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...
