Holiday magic comes alive within the Pocono Mountains as Camelback and Blue Mountain resorts current a festive lineup of occasions, actions and eating celebrations for the 2025 vacation season.
Both locations, surrounded by the scenic fantastic thing about the Poconos, will provide festive enjoyable that features Santa sightings, ugly sweater events and indulgent New Year’s Eve buffets, amongst different occasions.
Recently acknowledged among the many Top 30 Ski Resorts within the U.S. by the 2025 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, these premier mountain getaways promise memorable winter vacation experiences for all ages.
Here’s what visitors can count on:
Santa sightings
* Santa Arrives at Camelback Resort
Friday, Dec. 5, from 7 to 9 p.m.
Santa and Mrs. Claus will make their grand arrival at Camelback Resort joined by their elves and associates from the Pocono Township Fire Department, who will assist the jolly duo gentle the resort’s Christmas tree. In partnership with Toys for Tots of Monroe County, visitors are inspired to carry a brand new, unwrapped toy valued between $10 and $30; in return, they may obtain a customized reindeer pillowcase memento. The free, family-friendly occasion will function dwell leisure, kids’s actions, a scorching cocoa bar and vacation treats.
* Breakfast Buffet with Santa at Blue Mountain Resort
Saturday, Dec. 6, and Sunday, Dec. 7, from 9 to 11 a.m.
Santa can be internet hosting a particular Holiday Breakfast Buffet within the resort’s Vista Ballroom, spreading good cheer and merrily posing with the youngsters. The scrumptious brunch options everybody’s favourite cozy breakfast fare equivalent to scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, French toast, residence fries, bagels and various breads, espresso, tea, juices and scorching chocolate with toppings.
$30 per individual for ages 13 and over; $18 for youths ages 5 to 12; ages 4 and beneath are free; unique of tax and gratuity. Tickets can be found for buy online.
* Snow Tube with Santa at Blue Mountain Resort
Every Thursday in December from 5 to 10 p.m.
Blue Mountain Resort will provide Christmas Snow Tubing each Thursday by Sunday in December from 5 to 10 p.m. Guests can get pleasure from snow tubing beneath festive vacation lights set to seasonal music with Santa making particular appearances on Thursdays throughout the identical hours. Tickets begin at $29 and can be found for buy online.
* Santa Monday at Camelback Resort
Monday, Dec. 22, from 9 a.m. to five p.m. on the slopes
Camelback Resort will host a slopeside Santa Group Photo at 11 a.m. on the base of the mountain. Participants dressed head to toe in full Santa Claus apparel will obtain 50% off a raise ticket accessible at visitor companies. After the festive group photograph, Santas can take a couple of runs down the slopes collectively – Santa-style.
Off the slopes vacation enjoyable
* Gingerbread House Workshop at Blue Mountain Resort
Saturday, Dec. 6, and Sunday, Dec. 7, from 1 to three p.m.
Families can get pleasure from gingerbread home adorning at Blue Mountain Resort creating festive masterpieces whereas listening to vacation music. Guests are offered sweet decorations and scorching chocolate, and Santa Claus will make a particular drop-in to admire the creations.
$50 per session for a desk of as much as eight folks (consists of one gingerbread home equipment); every extra gingerbread home is $25. Tickets can be found for buy online.
* Ugly Sweater Party at Blue Mountain Resort
Saturday, Dec. 20, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Blue Mountain Resort will host an Ugly Sweater Party at Last Run Lounge, that includes dwell music from Toolshed Jack. Guests 21 and older are invited to put on their most outrageous vacation sweaters, with prizes awarded for the ugliest appears. The occasion is free and guarantees an evening of festive enjoyable and vacation cheer.
* Ugly Sweater Party & Christmas Karaoke at Camelback’s Thirsty Camel
Tuesday, Dec. 23, from 6 to eight p.m.
Guests are inspired to put on their most outrageous vacation sweaters and sing alongside throughout a festive evening of Christmas karaoke. Prizes can be awarded for the most effective – and worst – sweaters, sponsored by Resort Beverage Company. The occasion will function vacation enjoyable, laughter and seasonal cheer. A sound raise ticket is required to entry the snow.
* Noon Years Party at Camelback’s Thirsty Camel Patio
Wednesday, Dec. 31, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Revelers will get pleasure from a Noon Year’s celebration with the resort’s DJ spinning upbeat tracks. At midday, visitors will elevate their glasses for a celebratory toast and have the possibility to win resort swag. Attendees will obtain a black-and-gold lei upon entry, including to the festive ambiance. An LED screening of classic mountain movies will present a nostalgic spotlight to the occasion.
Festive eating
* Christmas Eve Buffet Dinner at Camelback’s Hemispheres
Wednesday, Dec. 24, from 4 to 10 p.m.
Camelback Resort will have a good time Christmas Eve with a buffet dinner at Hemispheres restaurant, that includes festive, chef-inspired dishes for the entire household. The buffet consists of salads, soups, a seafood station with oysters and shrimp, carving stations with prime rib and rack of lamb and entrees like Honey Pineapple Glazed Ham and Butternut Squash Lasagna. Guests can get pleasure from vegetarian sides, a kid-friendly station, a gluten-free desk and desserts together with apple, pumpkin and pecan pies and various pastries all in a joyful vacation ambiance within the Poconos.
Adults (13 and up) $59.99; kids (6 to 12) $32.99; kids 5 and beneath are free, unique of tax and gratuity. Reservations are extremely advisable and could be booked online.
* New Year’s Eve Buffet Dinner at Camelback’s Hemispheres
Wednesday, Dec. 31, beginning at 4 p.m.
Camelback Resort will ring in 2026 with a New Year’s Eve Buffet at Hemispheres Restaurant, that includes a wide range of festive dishes for all ages. Guests can get pleasure from salads and appetizers equivalent to Greek pasta salad, shrimp gazpacho shooters and a charcuterie and cheese show. The buffet additionally features a poke bowl station, taco cease, pasta bar with signature dishes, a hibachi station with alternative of protein and greens and a butcher’s station with herb-roasted beef ribeye and honey glazed ginger pork loin. Desserts embrace petite pastries, ice cream and waffle station and a chocolate fountain together with kid-friendly favorites.
Adults (13 and up) $69.99; kids (6 to 12) $22; kids 5 and beneath are free; unique of tax and gratuities. For reservations, go to online.
* New Year’s Eve Party at Blue Mountain Resort
Wednesday, Dec. 31, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Blue Mountain Resort will host a New Year’s Eve Party at Last Run Lounge that includes a night of dancing and music for visitors 21 and older. A DJ will present the soundtrack, and the celebration will embrace a champagne toast, midnight breakfast sandwiches and occasion favors. A money bar can be accessible.
Tickets are $40 per individual prematurely and $45 on the door. Tickets can be found for buy online.
Year-round resorts
Blue Mountain and Camelback resorts are each year-round locations for adventure-packed, multi-generational household journey and experiences.
Blue Mountain Resort, with the very best vertical drop of any ski resort in Pennsylvania, options 40 ski trails, 14 lifts, 29 mountain biking trails, a ropes course, mountain climbing wall and extra.
The property affords tenting and glamping websites and eating at Slopeside Pub & Grill together with areas for indoor and out of doors weddings, teams and company retreats.
The 560-acre Camelback Resort consists of Camelback Mountain for snowboarding, snowboarding and snowtubing; Camelback Mountain Adventures for ziplining, a treetop impediment course and alpine mountain coaster; Camelbeach Outdoor Waterpark, Pennsylvania’s largest out of doors waterpark; and Aquatopia Indoor Waterpark, voted frequently as certainly one of USA Today’s prime indoor waterparks.
Accommodations can be found at Camelback Lodge, an eight-story, modern-designed resort with 453 visitor suites, that includes many eating decisions together with ski-in/ski-out eating places, a health middle, 20,000 sq. toes of versatile convention and assembly venues and 170,000 sq. toes of indoor journey and leisure house.
Camelback Resort is positioned at 193 Resort Drive within the Tannersville part of Pocono Township, Monroe County.
Blue Mountain Resort is positioned at 1660 Blue Mountain Drive in Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County.