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Penn Hills Resort, bubble bath, circa 1970s. Penn Hills Resort was a honeymoon resort located in Analomink, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains.Founded as a tavern in 1944, the resort grew in the 1960s, with over a hundred rooms in the hotel [1] and a ski resort and golf course on the 500-acre site.
Constructed in 1898 as an eight-room inn, Mount Airy Lodge was re-constructed in the 1950s as the Pocono's largest resort. In its heyday in the 1960s and 70's, Mount Airy had more than 890 rooms, indoor/outdoor pools, skiing, snowmobiling, ice-skating, hiking, biking, horseback riding, archery, an 18-hole golf course and paddle ball courts on over 1,000 acres of property.
By 1960, the Pocono Mountains rivaled Niagara Falls as a honeymoon destination, attracting 100,000 couples a year. [46] Morris Wilkins, co-owner of Cove Haven, invented the heart-shaped bathtub in 1963 as a way to lure honeymoon customers. [47] [48] [49] The tub would appear in other couples resorts and became a symbol of the Pocono resort ...
In 1958 Wilkins and his partner Harold O'Brien purchased Hotel Pocopaupack on the banks of Lake Wallenpaupack in Lakeville, Pennsylvania. They renamed the hotel Cove Haven and marketed it as a couples-only resort. [3] [4] [6] In 1963 Wilkins invented the heart-shaped bathtub as a way to generate more honeymoon business at the hotel.
This hotel is situated on a 5,500 acres (22 km 2) wooded site in Skytop, Pennsylvania, at an elevation of 1,500 feet in the Poconos.The property includes a 75-acre lake, 30 miles of hiking trails, and an 18-hole golf course. [4]
Eight peaks, 139 trails, a network of 19 lifts and 884 acres of skiable terrain make up Sunday River Resort in Maine’s mountainous Newry, including the new-for-2023, high-speed Barker 6 ski lift ...