Drawing couples, families, and groups, the Poconos is popular for its year-round outdoor recreation, gorgeous landscape of waterfalls and lakes, and charming mountain towns full of cozy cabins, unique boutiques, and diverse restaurants. Known as “The Niagara of Pennsylvania,” Bushkills Falls® is the perfect place for a hike while Mountain Creek Riding Stable offers guided horseback trail rides. During the warmer months, enjoy boating, jet skiing, water skiing, kayaking, fishing and swimming on adjacent Lake Harmony and when temperatures fall, you can go skiing, snowboarding, and snow tubing at Jack Frost, Big Boulder, Blue Mountain, Camelback, or Shawnee Mountain or enjoy ice-skating, ice fishing, and cross-country skiing at Promised Land State Park. Kids will love splashing around the pools and waterslides at H20 Indoor Waterpark, taking an underground train ride at the No. 9 Coal Mine, or interacting with the bug hotel and digging stations at Lilliana’s Nature Discovery Area. You can also head into the historic nearby town of Jim Thorpe for well-preserved Victorian architecture, unique boutiques, antique shops, and art galleries along Broadway as well as interesting attractions like the Mauch Chunk Museum & Cultural Center.