![]() We are home to Pennslyvania's premier 91,000 square foot INDOOR entertainment area featuring our indoor waterpark, Bear Track Landing! Bear Track Landing features a 4-story, 12 level Treefort with over 60 guest activated water effects, topped with our huge Tipping Bucket that fills with 1,000 gallons of water and dumps down every few minutes. So we knew we had to not only have more space, but we needed to continue to keep adding more to the guests’ experience.Great Wolf Lodge is located in Scotrun, PA in the beautiful Pocono mountains. We knew that there was demand in the destination. “We’re really doing work for the guest experience. “We really weren’t upping our game for what the competition was offering,” he said. Down the road are Kalahari Resort in Mount Pocono, Camelbeach in Tannersville and Split Rock Resort in Lake Harmony.Ĭolavito says his resort concentrates more on the guest experience than simply trying to one-up the competition. Great Wolf’s renovations are the latest additions to the growing water park industry in the Poconos. They feature a fully equipped kitchenette and a private outdoor patio area. The Woodland Villas have three bedrooms and two bathrooms and can accommodate up to 10 guests. The Mountain Tower will add 202 suite-style rooms that includes two new room categories, Deluxe Wolf Den Suites and Deluxe Cabin Suites, that combine the traditional Great Wolf Suite with a family suite that can sleep up to 12 guests. Colavito said he expects them to be open by Oct. More roomsĬonstruction is on the homestretch for the expanded lodgings that will bring the room total to 632, making it the second-largest Great Wolf property. The quick-service options have also been revamped and range from ice cream to pizza and hamburgers. Fireside is a full-service restaurant with cuisine inspired by family cookouts. 31, will have a buffet through the day with breakfast food and a Mexican-inspired menu for lunch and dinner. Inside are two new restaurants - Timbers Tables & Kitchen and Fireside. Around the exterior are cabanas designed by interior designer Nate Berkus that include a sectional sofa and table space for meals from the adjacent Outpost Bar & Grill. Next to the indoor park, is a new outdoor section known as Raccoon Lagoon that has a large, resort-style pool and hot tub. Otter Run, a twisty-turning body slide.Riders begin in a capsule and fall through a trap door and into what feels like a 20-foot freefall before hitting a 270-degree loop and splashing down into the catch pool. Wolf Tail, which has been a favorite at other Great Wolf locations.Mountain Edge Raceway, where riders go head first on a mat through high-bank curves.The Slidewinder, where two riders share a tube and face each other while going through two high-banked, open-air curves and a 180-degree turn.The waterpark expansion features seven new slides, including: It was tough, but we made it work and here we are today.” What’s new “We decided that we’re going to do this and we’re going to manage the guest experience. ![]() “That was something that we questioned early on. You had to operate a hotel, which was at very high occupancy while we’re building.”Ĭlosing down during construction was considered but ruled out. ![]() “Those 18 months, I think, were probably the most challenging part for us and our staff. “This is really exciting,” Colavito said. To get into the resort, guests and workers had to endure getting around the worksites and limited parking. “What we’re seeing in the investments Great Wolf Lodge is making in the Poconos is not trivial,” Barrett said.Ĭolavito said there was plenty of work to do during the 18 months of construction as Great Wolf remained open.
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