Camelback Ski Area

Camelback is a ski resort located in the in the Pocono Mountains region in Tannersville, Pennsylvania. Camelback Mountain itself reaches an elevation of 2,050 ft (625 m). There are 139 acres (56 hectares) of skiing terrain; the mountains have a total of 33 slopes (the longest of which is 6,000 ft (1,829 m)) and features a vertical drop of 800 ft (244 m), 13 lifts, including 2 high speed quad lifts. It is the largest ski resort in the Poconos. It has two snowboard areas, and snowtubing. The resort was opened in December of 1963. The mountain summit receives an average of 50 in (127 cm) of snowfall each winter. It has snowmaking facilities and is lighted for night skiing. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1455x1092, 608 KB)Mt. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1455x1092, 608 KB)Mt. ... A ski resort is a ski area with a village and/or high-end accommodations and other amenities at the base of the mountain. ... The Poconos, or the Pocono Mountains region, is a mountainous region of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km²) located in northeastern Pennsylvania, approximately 30 miles north of Allentown. ... Pocono Township is a township located in Monroe County, Pennsylvania. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska (USA) has the largest visible base-to-summit elevation difference on Earth. ... Template:C20YearInnTopic 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... A summit is: A point higher than all the ground immediately surrounding it; see topographical summit. ... Snow is precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes. ... Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... Snow cannon at Mölltaler Gletscher, Austria A snow cannon is a device used to produce snow artificially. ...

The resort also features a waterpark, called Camelbeach, that is open during the summer. It includes 22 water slides, including two body slides, two mat slides, two tube slides and two raft rides, in addition to a 30,000-square-foot wave pool, adventure river, bumper boats and full-sized competition pool. Camelbeach Waterpark is a water park located in the Poconos, in Tannersville, Pennsylvania. ...

External links

• Camelback Ski Area official website
• Poconos Ski Resorts Directory
• Poconos Ski Sites