Camelback: From Summit View to Four-Season Resort

A brisk, story-driven tour of Camelback Mountain in Pennsylvania’s Poconos—how a camel-shaped ridgeline became both a scenic lookout and a year-round resort. The episode traces the summit’s early draw for views (including the stone cabin and fire tower era), the start of commercial skiing and the resort’s 1963 opening, and the way Camelback expanded into night skiing and a major tubing hill. It then shifts into the warm-weather and all-season evolution with Camelbeach, the 2015 Camelback Lodge and Aquatopia indoor waterpark, and a handful of recent upgrades and efficiency efforts—ending with a simple suggestion: don’t skip the Big Pocono State Park overlook.