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Opening Day of Trout Season in the Poconos

katrina.christian — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:53:03 +0000

Submitted By;

Terri Ditty
CENTURY 21 Select Group
570-689-2111
www.c21selectgroup.net

2011 Trout Season Opener

Saturday, April 16th, 8 AM…..Our Dyberry Creek in Honesdale, PA was featured with Don Jacobs on Pennsylvania Outdoor LIfe, WNEP TV, Channel 16. My brother called to let me know to watch, I should be able to pick him out of the line of anglers….look for his orange hat. And, there he was, all 6’6″ of him on the TV screen , in waders and up to his ……in moving water.

It certainly looked everyone was having a ball despite the cooler temperatures and the slight drizzle. Note to self…..get a fishing license next year and join in the fun!

According to flyfishingconnection.com, the Dyberry Creek offers quality early-season trout fishing and is suggested as a good choice for an enjoyable day of fishing. The creek is a beautiful piece of water beginning with the East and West Branches, eventually joining and flowing into the Lackawaxen River. Tree-lined banks help provide shade for the trout that are stocked heavily early in the year.

I have many memories, as a child, playing in the creeks in our area with my siblings for hours on end. My sister built a pond on her property next to the Five Mile Creek where we spent our childhood and hosts an annual fishing derby for all the children for their family and friends. It is a great day for everyone and especially for me, a time to relax and enjoy my grandchidren.

Get out there and enjoy everything our beautiful area has to offer!

The joy of the Outdoors is a Family Tradition

20th Annual Ice Tee Golf Tournament

katrina.christian — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:37:29 +0000

20th Annual Ice Tee Golf Tournament On Frozen Lake Wallenpaupack is set for

Sunday, January 30, 2011!

Submitted By; Kim Stevens Owner/Broker

Mark your calendar for The 20th Annual Ice Tee Golf Tournament on January 30, 2011. This unique event attracted over 220 golfers and an additional 200 spectators in 2010.

Two 9 hole challenging courses will be created, complete with tree lined fairways, greens, water traps, obstacles, and roughs. Golfers will receive a colored golf ball plus a scorecard and map illustrating the course layout, and each participant is restricted to playing with two clubs and one putter.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Time: Tee times 9 AM to 2 PM

Ehrhardt’s Waterfront located on Route 507 in Tafton

Green Fee: $15 in advance or $20 day of -fees are a non-refundable event donation

Awards ceremony at 3 PM complete with prizes for Closest to Wally, Best Cart/Sled, Wackiest Hat and more, 50/50 and giveaways.

Please click below to download player registration forms.

http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101992521600-75/IceTeeCoverLetter(2).pdf

http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1101992521600-76/IceTeeAPPLICATION%2B2011.pdf

Community Spotlight

katrina.christian — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:44:03 +0000

Though the Weather is Cold there is a Wonderful Place to Go

Submitted By: Katie Daggett

Pinecrest Lake Golf and Country Club has plenty to offer in the Spring, Summer and Fall, golf, swimming, boating, fishing, tennis, outdoor heated Swimming pool with Slide. All this AND a secluded woodland setting.

But what do you do when the temperature outside leaves no room to doubt that it’s winter? Well you can hop in the car and head to Camelback, Jack Frost or Big Boulder Ski Area’s – all just 15 to 25 minutes away. You can shop at the Crossings outlets or lunch in charming Downtown Stroudsburg or Jim Thorpe, once again just a short car ride away.

But what if you don’t want to get back into your car after your trip in from NJ, NY or Philly and points south? What can you do just outside your door? Better yet what can the kids do that will keep them occupied for more then 15 minutes AND will give them childhood memories to last a life time?

Well, I’ll tell you. There are some of the most beautiful and untouched cross country ski trails just outside your door at Pinecrest. Hidden and private, these trails offer sanctuary to all kind of local fauna. Pennsylvania White Tail Deer, Beaver, fox, winter birds as well as all other kind of small woodland creatures. If you don’t think that cross country skiing is your cup of tea grab a pair of skates or a warm blanket and a pic-nic lunch for you and the kids and head out to Beaver Brook Skating Pond.

If you have ever seen the movie “The Bishop’s Wife” (1947), and you should it’s a Christmas classic, then you will be able to imagine this most perfect of Capraesque places.

Two ponds connected by a spill way with a wooden board walk over it make up Beaver Brook’s skating area. The pond to the right is just the right shape and size for a game of pond hockey. Now the pond to the left is round and charming, with wooden steps to help you get from the woods to the ice. Both ponds are surrounded by pine tress big and small, but this pond, this pond to the left, well, it has the most perfect little island in the middle with three tall, thick pines to give it a bit of purpose and a pic-nic table to hold you when you want to take a break. And when it starts to get a little chilly all you have to do is lite a fire in the fire pit with the perfectly split and stacked dry wood straight from it’s shelter.

This is a special place that once only seemed to exist in books and films. So bring your skates, your family, your friends and don’t forget the smores and the hot coco too. You can have that perfect winter memory to share or to save for your very own. It’s all up to you.

Sales & Vacation rentals are available in Pinecrest Lake Golf & Country Club – visit www.c21poconopines.com or click on the link to the left for our Pocono Pines office.

Customer Appreciation Day!! 10/10/09

katrina.christian — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:55:53 +0000

Submitted by: Rose Sawyer, Realtor, Associate Broker, CENTURY 21 Select Group, Direct Line (570) 698-7845

The Lake Ariel office of CENTURY 21 Select Group will be hosting their annual customer appreciation day on Saturday, October 10, from 12 to 3 P.M. Please join us for lunch, cider and donuts, free pumpkins, and enter the drawing for a free basket full of goodies. Our office is located at 1226 Hamlin Highway (Route 590) a quarter mile west of The Hideout main gate. Hope to see you there!

Pocono Lake Communities We Serve

katrina.christian — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:53:53 +0000

The Lake at Wagner's Forest Park - A Private Conservation Community

Welcome to Wagner Forest Park
This is located in the heart of the PA Pocono Plateau. It is a conservation-oriented community dedicated to preserving the natural environment and wildlife of the area. To this end, Wagner Forest Park Association, Inc. is resolved to be a residential community for healthful and harmonious living with nature, for those seeking their quiet corner away from the social and recreational amenities not created by nature.

One of the Many Poconos Vacation Communities!

Amenities include:

1 Lake
1 Beach
1 Dam

Lake Harmony Communities We Serve – Split Rock Resort

Lucille.Richmond — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:39:31 +0000

Tourism rises from coal’s ashes
Split Rock Resort, once a Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company offshoot, is flourishing in the shadow of its late, great parent
Among the largest hotel and businesses in the Pocono Mountains, Kidder Township’s Split Rock Resort has steadily grown since 1981 under the ownership of Jack Kalins. It may come as a surprise that this resort began as a hunting retreat for executives of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N.)
In the mid 1800s, to protect the watershed feeding their navigation system, LC&N purchased thousands of acres of wilderness at the headwaters of the Lehigh River. In Kidder Township, along the west shore of 127-acre Big Pond, property was purchased from the Keck estate. Later, Big Pond would change its name to Lake Harmony. The property included Big Spring, the source of drinking water for all the homes surrounding the lake.
A feature of the property was Split Rock, a mountaintop rock canyon outcropping part of the geologic formation that created Boulder Field at Hickory Run State Park. Located [1/2]-mile west of Lake Harmony at an elevation of 2,040 feet, it has been classified as red sandstone of the Duncannon Member of the Catskill Formation. The Wisconsin Glacier tilted the rock formation with subsequent erosion wearing away the exposed rock layers and creating the canyon.
The property was, in 1937, planned by Robert V. White, president of LC&N, to become a hunting and fishing retreat for company executives. The original rustic lodge had five rooms with baths and ten without for a total capacity of thirty. It opened in 1942 and was immediately popular.
The WWII years helped a declining LC&N gain temporary profitability. But by 1949, the company returned to its descent toward insolvency. Although its coal business was floundering, its resort business was growing. In 1946, White added a ski slope; a forerunner to what would become Big Bolder the first ski slope in Pennsylvania. White stepped down as LC&N president in 1954.
In 1962, LC&N reorganized. It was getting out of the coal and railroad businesses and focusing on resorts and real estate. Its Pocono properties were the one bright spot in its portfolio. It continued to expand Split Rock Lodge.
In the mid 1960s, the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the lessee of LC&N’s Lehigh & Susquehanna Railroad, collapsed. In 1965, LC&N issued a liquidation plan. Among the assets, each shareholder received one share of Split Rock Lodge, Inc.
In August of 1970, a fire burned the main lodge at Split Rock. “It was a traumatizing experience for the community,” said Split Rock General Manager Chuck Dickenson. “It was an important focal hub.” Days later, plans began on construction of a newer lodge (completed in 1991) with additional rooms, and new dining and recreational areas.
In 1981, Jack Kalins, a former Pocono Raceway employee, fulfilled a lifelong dream to operate a recreational resort by purchasing Split Rock. He formed a corporation in 1978 and in 1979, changed it name to Vacation Charters, Ltd. (VCL.) with a focus on vacation properties. VCL purchased the Carriage House at Pocono Manor.
In 1981, VCL purchased Village Square and Pocono Recreation, Inc., which included Split Rock Lodge and the Lake Harmony property. In 1986, VCL purchased the Holiday Inn at White Haven currently the Pocono-Ramada Inn and in 1999, purchased Mountain Laurel Resort.
In 1985, the Galleria complex was completed at Split Rock. It had an indoor pool, movie theater, racquetball courts, tennis courts, game room, coffee shop and ice cream parlor. It later expanded by adding a salon, gift shop, and a new building with tennis courts-the old tennis courts became a ballroom. The building was expanded to house an indoor regulation NBA basketball court, a fitness center, massage operation, and an eight-lane bowling alley.
Building continued adding a 27-hole golf course, 98 rustic villas and a new section, Willowbrook, designed as a time-share condominium built around the golf course. Willowbrook’s unit three is currently under construction. Split Rock plans to add a 40,000 square foot indoor water park with a wave pool, surf ride, and tube rides.
VCL has historically generated sales in the $30to $35 million range while heavily depending on outside financing to support operations and growth. In 1993, one of its lenders withdrew its credit line in compliance with new banking regulations forcing VCL into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It emerged from bankruptcy in 1996.
Split Rock Resorts is currently about 1,000-acres and has a payroll of 600 higher in season. It employs an outside crew of 45 to keep the lawns mowed, the flowers cared for, and work on the ongoing construction.
Split Rock draws guests from the Philadelphia, New York and Delmarva markets. During the summer and winter seasons, it attracts families with children. In the spring and fall, it caters to couples. Its montage of geology, natural beauty and historic location caters to eco-tourism and heritage tourism. Guests enjoy viewing deer, which there are more of in Split Rock than in Hickory Run State Park.
Now that gambling is coming to Pennsylvania, Split Rock Resort is well positioned for gambling related growth. Being well-established and well-positioned in the New York and Philadelphia markets, for Split Rock Lodge success is looking like a sure bet.

Pocono Lake Communities We Serve

katrina.christian — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:27:19 +0000

Twin Lakes at Locust Lake Village - One of 4 lakes in this Community

Locust Lake Village -

Locust Lake Village is a four-season community with five Lakes, three having swimming beaches with lifeguards throughout the summer. These lakes are stocked with fish. Boating, except for outboard motor types, is permitted. It’s location is ideal for recreational activities as it is within 15 minutes of Jack Frost and Big Boulder ski areas and 25 minutes to Camelback ski area and Camelbeach Waterpark.

Recreation

Other recreational facilities include: a baseball field, a basketball court, shuffleboard, bocci ball, swings, seesaws, sliding boards and picnic areas. The Village also has it’s own ski area with a T-bar lift and lodge.
During the summer the recreation committee has activities planned for almost every day, including arts and crafts for the very young. Other activities, (i.e.) movies, holiday get togethers) for the whole family, are held throughout the year.

The Locust Lake Community

At the present time, approximately 200 families live in the development on a permanent basis. The Village, as originally planned, contains approximately 1,631 lots, approximately 1/2 acre in size. At the present time 1020 homes have been constructed.

To Maintain the cost of operation, property owners are required to pay dues. For homeowners, the dues are $932.83 annually ( this includes weekly trash removal service), while lot owners pay $746.26. Taxes are approximately 1.5 % of the value of the property. There is a $800 transfer fee for new owners.

The Village is located close to the major Pocono Ski areas of Jack Frost, Big Boulder, and Camelback. This is an important plus to those wishing to rent to skiers. It is adjacent to a main highway, Route 940, only 5 miles form Route 80 and 10 miles from the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. It is close to a relatively large shopping center containing an excellent food market and a variety of stores. On the eastern boundary of the Village is the 21,000 acre Brady’s State Game Lands.

History

The developer of Locust Lake Village left in 1974 and it is now managed by Locust Lake Village Property Owner’s Association.

Pocono Pines Communities We Serve

katrina.christian — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:10:14 +0000

Pinecrest Lake Golf & Country Club

Wild Pines Golf Club – Wild Pines Clubhouse – Beautiful New Construction

Secluded in the heart of the Pennsylvania Pocono Mountains, Pinecrest Lake Offers the ultimatein vacation home accommodations in a private estate setting. Pinecrest Lake has been developed by leisure oriented professionals to provide not just a quality vacation home community but also a superior vacation experience.

Pinecrest Lake has a long history in the Poconos. A vacation destination since 1900, it has evolved into a first class community complete with a championship 18 hole golf course with beautiful mountain vistas, a 77 acre lake with beach and marina, tennis complex, recreation center, plus 2200 acres to explore with hiking, biking and cross country ski trails. There are several types of properties within this community. You’ll find 2 & 3 bedroom townhouses clustered in a natural pine forest immediately adjacent to Pinecrest Lake, moderate sized homes are located in the Brookside section, and in Wild Pines, single homes of various sizes line the golf course and surrounding mountainside to take advantage of the mountain vistas.

In addition to the onsite amenities, Pinecrest Lake is close to Camelback, Jack Frost and Big Boulder Ski Areas, making it the perfect place to get away during the winter months.

Pinecrest Lake Amenities at a glance:

77 Acre Lake with non-motorized boating, fishing, and swimming
Sandy Beach with picnic area and volley ball court
Pools with water slide, diving boards, snack bar, kiddie pool and restrooms
18 hole Championship Golf course
Tennis Complex
Clubhouse with Restaurant, Pub, Golf Pro Shop, Meeting Areas, and more.
Recreation Center
Hiking, Biking and Cross Country Ski Trails
Private Road Maintenance
Septic and Water

Pocono Pines Communities We Serve

katrina.christian — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:50:10 +0000

Lake Naomi Club – Including Lake Naomi and Timber Trails Communities

Lake Naomi Club House & Club Beach

Selected as one of the 99 Best Recreational Communities in America. Break away from your busy, complicated and stressful work week by relaxing and renewing your spirit in a home that is tucked away in the mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Lake Naomi Club is an upscale planned recreational community located in the Pocono Mountains.

The community is centered around a 277 acre lake offering sailing, boating, fishing and swimming. Other amenities include outdoor pools, tennis club, fitness center, golf course, lakefront clubhouse with restaurant, pub, game room, and outdoor dining… all this in a community with recreational activities for all ages. It’s ideally located just 90 miles from New York City and Philadelphia and its location in the Pocono Mountains is also ideal as it is within 20 – 30 minutes from Camelback, Jack Frost and Big Boulder ski areas, and 15 minutes from outlet shopping. For more information about Lake Naomi Homes for Sale or Rental Homes call us at 570-646-2600.

Lake Naomi Amenities at a glance:

277 Acre Lake with non-motorized boating, fishing, swimming and sailing
7 Sandy Beaches
2 Pools with water slides and diving boards
Golf course
18 Tennis Courts
Clubhouses with Restaurant, Pub, Fitness Center, Meeting Areas, Game room and more.
New Community Center with indoor pool, tennis, fitness club and more.
Instructional and Competitive Sports Programs
Daily Kids Camp and Creative Pre-Teen and Teen Programs in Summer
24 Hour medically trained Ranger Patrol equipped with automatic defibrillators
Rustic Wooded Lots

New! Lake Naomi’s New Community Center is Now Open

One of the biggest recent changes in Lake Naomi is the construction of the Community Center that encompasses a new indoor pool, tennis, fitness club and more. The community center allows members accessibility to year round activities.

Editor’s Note: To view a virtual tour of this and all the Pocono Pines Communities we serve visit www.c21poconopines.com and look under Area Information.