I had a hard time finding decent restaurants in the Poconos until a fellow traveler recommended Skytop Lodge | Poconos Resort | Skytop, PA. We dined at the Windsor. It was the best meal of the trip. I enjoyed exploring the fancy building and grounds.
After a walk in Paradise Creek and Tobyhanna State Park we had a cook out. The nice thing about vacationing in the Autumn is there are almost no people, especially when it rains off an on.
Marc is so good at finding Preying Mantids. I did not know what the first one was. It was over an inch in size. Prompted by Rudi at Picpholio I went to bugguide.net and in craneflies I found one like it labeled Large Crane Flies (Tipulidae)
Our second visit to this preserve.
This lovely church is down the road from where we stayed at Woodfield Manor in the Poconos.
We had another BBQ at Tobyhanna that day too.
Just down the road from where we stayed in a cabin at Woodfield Manor is Hungry Hill Memorial Historical Marker (hmdb.org)
The Nature Conservancy owns the Long Pond Preserve and Hauser Nature Center | TNC in PA. We visited the Hauser Nature Center twice to look at wildflowers and insects (in a later post).
A charming place that we stopped at for a photo op. I looked it up online and discovered that they hold an Ice Festival there: Tobyhanna, PA – Pocono Ice Harvest (roadsideamerica.com)
