The Best Hotels Near The Swiftwater, by the Record
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Deer drift down from the hills at dusk to feed just outside the lounge windows, and guests tend to go quiet when it happens. This Pocono Mountains resort pairs soaring wood-and-stone architecture with marble and warm timber inside, fireplaces and velvet armchairs keeping things from tipping too far into lodge-grand. Many suites have private heated plunge pools, and the indoor-outdoor pool lets you swim while snow falls.
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Ten rooms in the Poconos, which the owners call a "micro-hotel" with a straight face. What it is, more plainly, is a small boutique hotel that bets on the Poconos having a moment the way the Catskills have been having theirs for a while now. City comforts land in the middle of good northeastern Pennsylvania woods, near Promised Land State Park, for the East Coast urbanite who wants nature with decent bedding.
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The exterior looks lifted straight from American Gothic, all stern clapboard and small-town Pennsylvania gravitas. Step inside and the Hotel Fauchère pivots hard toward cosmopolitan boutique hotel, the kind of place that quietly embarrasses the flyover-country assumption. Milford sits in the long stretch between Philly and Pittsburgh, and this is where city people go when they want the mountains without giving up the thread count. Michelin awarded it one Key.
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A Tudor mansion anchoring 500 acres in Somerset County, an hour from Manhattan, with the kind of pedigree that involves former Moroccan royal ownership and an organic farm feeding the on-site restaurants. Pendry Natirar is a full-scale resort, with a spa, tennis courts, a cooking school, and a private club. Rooms run to dark wood, marble, and deep-green accents. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.