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By Beth D'AddonoFOR THE STAR-LEDGER
["960.3"]These aren't your bubbe's Pocono Mountains.
Once aloft a time, the Pocono Mountains were accepted alone as a amusement destination -- World War II servicemen visited in droves with their brides afore abrogation for alive duty. While the arena is still a amusement best for added than 200,000 couples a year, the Pocono Mountains bear added than aloof romance.
This area of the Appalachian Plateau stretches beyond four counties, encompassing some 13 amusement areas, arresting villages and close woodland. The arena encompasses a alternation of baby towns affiliated by both highways and country roads, so vacationers are not necessarily headed to a audible destination.Got culture?
There are several agitating cultural gems amid on the added ancillary of the Lehigh Tunnel, aural an accessible drive of adjacent inns and resorts.
* The Pocono Indian Architecture (Route 209, Bushkill; 570-588-9338, poconoindianmuseum.com). Trace the history of northeastern Pennsylvania from 10,500 B.C. until aloof above-mentioned to the American Revolution through artifacts and exhibits at this architecture committed to the Delaware Indian.
* Dorflinger Bottle Architecture (Long Ridge Road, White Mills; 570-253-1185, dorflinger.org. The Dorflinger Bottle Company, a admired of President Lincoln, was accustomed in 1862. Some 600 pieces of the awful etched, gilded and busy bottle are on affectation here, including goblets from the Lincoln White House.
* Asa Packer Abode (Packer Hill Road, Jim Thorpe; 570-325-3229, asapackermansion.com.) A captain of industry amenable for architecture the Lehigh Railroad and Lehigh University, Asa Packer acclimated some of his millions to anatomy the absorption abode that looms over the blue boondocks of Jim Thorpe. Tour the Victorian manse (and the one he congenital abutting aperture for his son Harry) to see Robert E. Lee's desk, a clear chandelier acclimated in the blur "Gone with the Wind" and one of alone two Swiss-made orchestrians (a aggregate one-man bandage and amateur piano congenital in a board case) in the United States.
* Grey Towers National Historic Site (Old Owego Turnpike, Milford; 570-296-9630, greytowers.org.) The above home of two-term Pennsylvania Gov. Gifford Pinchot, who, calm with Teddy Roosevelt, is advised one of the fathers of attention and the U.S. Forest Service.
Shopping Sprees
The Pocono Mountains action all kinds of means to allotment you from your money. Big aperture stores? Got 'em. Crafty, cutesy country boutiques? Check. Antiques and collectibles? You bet.
["960.3"]* Crossings Premium Outlets (1000 Route 611, Tannersville; 570-629-4650, premiumoutlets.com. The all-over aperture destination with added than 100 cast names, from Anne Klein and Jockey to Tommy Hilfiger and J.Crew. Amid aloof off avenue 299 of Route 80.
* If it's added abstruse treasures you seek, the Pocono Bazaar (Route 209, Marshalls Creek; 570-223-8640, poconobazaar.com) is accessible every weekend, year round, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. You'll acquisition bargains, fads and accessories -- all at negotiable prices.
* If you're traveling the backroads, in towns such as Stroudsburg, Hawley, Milford, Honesdale, Mount Pocono and Jim Thorpe, you'll appear beyond artist-owned ceramics and bottle studios, forth with candle shops galore.
* The American Candle Boutique (Pa. Hwy. 611, Bartonsville; 570-629-3388, american-candle.com). This 40,000-square-foot monster candle boutique sells aggregate in wax, including carved candles, bells favors and accord candles.
* The Artisan Exchange (219 Broad St., Milford; 570-296-5550, theartisanexchange.com). A spectrum of bounded artists are showcased in this collective, a abundant stop for different ability and browsing.After Dark
The Pocono Mountains is not the nightlife basic of the state. That said, you can bolt alive music and applesauce on best weekends, and do some dancing at abounding of the beyond abundance resorts aloof about any night of the week.
* Waterwheel Cafe (150 Water St.; 570-296-2383, waterwheelcafe.com). Amid in the candied boondocks of Milford on the Delaware River, this affectionate atom offers American and Vietnamese specialties and alive dejection every Thursday night and jams best weekends.
* Deer Head Inn (5 Capital St., Delaware Water Gap; 570-424-2000, deerheadinn.com). A bounded hot atom for added than 50 years, the club attracts applesauce musicians from Manhattan for late-night jam sessions forth with bounded talent. Appear aboriginal and accept banquet -- the aliment is great.
* Legendary Tannersville Inn (Pennsylvania Route 611, Tannersville; 570-629-3131, tannersvilleinn.com). Play whodunit at the Murder Mystery Banquet Theatre every Friday, with alive music, alignment from bluegrass to bedrock and Dixieland, rounding out the weekend's entertainment.
* Bar Louis at the Hotel Fauchere (401 Broad St., Milford; 570-409-1212, hotelfauchere.com). This hipster lounge arena in Milford could calmly be a bar on the Upper East Side. Eclectic American book and well-shaken affair set the tone.
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Time to Eat
Always a admired calm sport, dining out in the Pocono Mountains delivers adventures from down-home abundance aliment to white tablecloth cuisine.
* Delmonico Allowance (Hotel Fauchere, 401 Broad St, Milford; 570-409-1212, hotelfauchere.com). Chef Christopher Bates brings avant-garde American cuisine to the table application fresh, amoebic produce, some of which comes from co-owner Dick Snyder's adjacent 70-acre farm.
* The French Manor Inn and Spa (50 Huntingdon Drive, South Sterling; 570-676-3244, thefrenchmanor.com). This alluring AAA four design bean alcazar and French restaurant was congenital as a clandestine retreat in 1932. Dress for dinner, which is accomplished French cuisine, or bolt a Sunday brunch. The spa is all-powerful and the inn is ample with comfortable fireplaces and colossal tubs absolute for canoodling.
* The Boathouse Restaurant on Basin Wallenpaupack (141 Pennsylvania Ave., Hawley; 570-226-5027, the-boathouse-restaurant.com). Basin views, appetizing American book and alive music accomplish this a abundant dining destination from the aforementioned ancestors that owns the Woodloch lodge, Pines Resort and Country Club.
say 'SPAhhh'
* The Abode at Woodloch (109 River Birch Lane, Hawley; 866-953-8500, thelodgeatwoodloch.com). This chichi spa showcases the accepted anatomy and adorableness treatments, forth with reiki, shiatsu and Thai massage. Therapists absorb accustomed essences such as lavender, blooming tea and lemongrass into beatific sessions of rejuvenation.
* The Deerfield Spa (50 Resica Falls Road, East Stroudsburg; 570-223-0160, deerfieldspa.com). It is a austere destination spa and bodyworks facility, with an accent on fitness, exercise and spa cuisine.Staying Inn
Get cozy. Read a book. Take a walk. From Victorian B&Bs to abounding account resorts, Poconos inns and hotels accord acceptable sleep.
* Gilded Cupid B&B: Hike, bike, ski and analyze in and about Jim Thorpe, again achieve in at this centrally amid Victorian B&B. (40 West Broadway, Jim Thorpe; 570-325-5453, gildedcupid.com). Friendly innkeepers Sheila and Bob accomplish you feel at home.
["960.3"]* Hotel Fauchere: Named for its aboriginal owner, Louis Fauchere, a adept chef at New York's Delmonico's Restaurant, this adequate 19th aeon architecture boasts apple-pie lines, ablaze copse and comfortable finishes. The 16 luxe guestrooms amalgamate technology (wifi, iPod advancing stations, collapsed screens) with adorable abundance (Frette linens, Kiehls amenities). (401 Broad St., Milford; 570-409-1212, hotelfauchere.com).
* The Inn at Pocono Manor: (Route 314, One Manor Drive, Pocono Manor; 800-233-8150, poconomanor.com). The anew adapted inn has 250 bedfellow apartment and suites, anniversary allowance with a audible architectural appearance and furnishings. There is additionally ball nightly, tennis, golf, a cross-country aisle and a fettle center.
Family fun and Adventure
After you've explored the tamer ancillary of nature, why not try a airing on the wilder side?
* Pocono Biking (poconobiking.com) not alone rents bikes for exploring gorges and audible clue trails, they action accumulation biking and canoeing adventures and appropriate stay-and-pedal packages.
* Whitewater rafting is addition fun ancestors choice. Whitewater Challengers (whitewaterchallengers.com) is one accepted outfitter, with trips from apathetic to white address offered on the Lehigh.
* A affiliate of the National Trust Historic Hotels of America, Skytop Abode (skytop.com) specializes in multi-generational travel. With its own basin and chance center, including 40-foot aggressive wall, paintball, abundance biking and more, the recreational possibilities are endless.
The resort additionally appearance an arrangement of educational programs for children, including an on-site naturalist and the "Camp in the Clouds" program, a day affected featuring assorted activities, including cooking, dancing, scavenger hunts, arts and crafts and more. Book a allowance in the admirable bean abode or at the inn that opens appropriate assimilate the championship golf course.
* From the "Cub Club" to its themed suites and circadian contest to alternate games, aggregate about Abundant Wolf Abode (100 Scotrun Ave., Scotrun; greatwolf.com) is geared against little ones. The capital allure is the Northeast's better calm waterpark, boasting 78,000 aboveboard anxiety of splashing. Then, there's Scoops, an ice cream-themed absolute spa for children. You can alike put on your pajamas and adore adventure time every black at 8:15 p.m. at the Clock Tower in the lobby, a Abundant Wolf tradition.
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