Pocono Mountain Ski Areas and Skiing

As you might expect, skiing in the Pocono Mountains in PA is very popular due to the convenient location and the excellent ski conditions that exist most of the year from December through early March.

There are several ski areas located throughout the Pocono Mountain area. Most of their names will be very familiar to any skiers from northern New Jersey, Pennsylvania or central New York state and New York City. They are Alpine Mountain Ski and Ride Center, Blue Mountain Ski area, Snow Mountain, Camelback Mountain Resort, Big Boulder Ski area, Jack Frost Mountain, Shawnee Mountain, and Big Bear at Masthope Mountain.

The Pocono Mountains are an excellent choice for skiing since this variety of ski areas presents all sorts of terrain for all levels of ski experience and ability. If your thing is skiing, snow boarding, snow tubing or cross country skiing, you can find exactly what you desire in north eastern Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains.

The Camelback mountain resort is probably the largest and most popular ski area in the Pocono Mountains.  Camelback offers 33 trails and 13 lifts at the time of this writing.  They also offer high speed quads, snow board half pipe, two terrain parks and you will find ski trails for skiers of all levels of ability and experience.  Another plus for Camelback is that they offer night skiing on all their trails.  Another draw to the Camelback area is their convenient location.  They are only a few minutes into Pennsylvania from New Jersey and located just down the road from the famous "Crossings Premium Outlets" at Tannersville.

Another very popular ski area is located at Shawnee Mountain which is just outside the village of Shawnee.  This is a very popular area first for its location since it is the closest Pennsylvania ski area to New York City and New Jersey.  It is only a five minute drive from the Delaware Water Gap crossing of route 80 into PA.  But the Shawnee Mountain ski area has earned its fine reputation with skiers due to their excellent maintenance, snow making and snow grooming of trails.  They literally can make snow for their entire trail system and most of that system is also well lit for night skiing.  Besides skiing, Shawnee offers snow boarding, snow tubing at their park and they also have added a 3000' Super Park and Half-Pipe.