Camelback Ski Area
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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.
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. Also, new to 2006, Camelbeach now features a Wave riding pool by means of surfing.
