Where to Stay in Tobyhanna for a Christmas Ski Week
If you want four bedrooms in Tobyhanna for a December ski trip and you're going to be in and out of boots all week, three of our homes here fit the brief: Hot tub Gym Pool Lake Golf Karaoke Firepit, Hot tub Games Lake Golf Course 20% OFF, and Lake view Theater Playground Kayak Pet Friendly. All three are four-bedroom single-family houses in Tobyhanna, all pet friendly, all with keyless entry so you can arrive after dark on the 19th without waiting on anyone. Which one you want depends almost entirely on how many of you there are and what you plan to do in the four hours between coming off the mountain and going to bed.
Start with the drive to the snow, because that's the day
Tobyhanna sits in the middle of the Pocono ski map rather than at the foot of any one mountain, which is the real reason to base here. Camelback, over in Tannersville, is the big one: a wide mountain with a spread of trails that suit a mixed group, a six-person bubble lift, and a tubing park with dozens of lanes if someone in your party isn't skiing. From Tobyhanna it's a short run, roughly half an hour, and it's the obvious first day.
Jack Frost and Big Boulder are the other half of the week, and they're sister mountains on a single pass, so you can ski Jack Frost by day and move over to Big Boulder for night skiing. Jack Frost's twenty slopes cover first-timers through advanced, and Big Boulder, near Lake Harmony, leans hard toward snowboarders: terrain parks cover about half its slopes. Both are farther from Tobyhanna than Camelback, out toward White Haven and Lake Harmony. Drive it once and you'll know whether you want to do it again midweek.
Between those two days, the thing worth knowing is that the Poconos in late December can give you anything from hardpack to rain. Build the week so a bad snow day isn't a lost day, which is where the houses start to matter.
The one with the gym and the hot tub, for a group of twelve
Hot tub Gym Pool Lake Golf Karaoke Firepit sleeps twelve across four bedrooms, sits inside Pocono Farms Country Club, and has the arrangement I'd want after a cold day: a private hot tub on a double deck in the trees, two separate living rooms so the people who want a movie and the people who want karaoke aren't negotiating, and a wood-burning fireplace downstairs. There's exercise equipment too, which sounds like an odd thing to care about on a ski trip until you've got someone in the group who doesn't ski and is climbing the walls by Sunday.
Practical notes that matter in December: the community's lake, beach and outdoor pool are summer things and won't be part of your trip, and the house asks for an HOA form to be submitted at least 72 hours before you arrive. Parking takes six vehicles, which is more useful than it sounds when a group of twelve arrives in four cars with roof boxes.
The one for a wet-weather day
Same capacity, different personality. Hot tub Games Lake Golf Course 20% OFF also sleeps twelve in four bedrooms inside Pocono Farms, with a hot tub and a fire pit, but its centre of gravity is the game room: pool table, ping pong, air hockey, darts, an arcade station, karaoke, a record player. If your group skews toward teenagers, or you've got a day where the mountains are a sheet of ice and nobody wants to drive, this is the house that absorbs it.
The trade to weigh is bathrooms. Two full and a half bath for twelve people is tight on a ski morning, and the owner is straightforward about Pocono water pressure wobbling when everyone showers at once, so stagger them. The house also comes with the most useful piece of winter advice in our whole Tobyhanna inventory: bring four-wheel drive. Salt and a shovel are at the property, but the roads inside the community are plowed on the township's schedule, not yours, and that schedule has no interest in your check-out time.
The one with the movie theater, for ten
Lake view Theater Playground Kayak Pet Friendly sleeps ten and caps at ten, children aged two and up included, so do the arithmetic before you fall for it. What you get is a proper entertainment basement: a theater setup with a big screen and sound bar, arcade games, a PS5, karaoke. There's an EV charger in the driveway, which is rarer than it should be up here, and a wraparound porch looking over Lake Carobeth and the community green, which in late December means bare trees, a frozen-edged lake and a view with nobody in it.
Two honest caveats. This house has no hot tub, which for some ski groups ends the conversation right there; it does have electric fireplaces in the living room and basement, and a fire pit outside. And the kayaks, the lakeside café, the splash pad and the mini golf across the street are warm-weather amenities. The community does run an ice-skating rink in winter, though community schedules are theirs to set and change. You'll also need to stop at the community office on the way in with a driver's license, vehicle registration and pet records if a dog is coming.
Worth looking at even though it isn't a four-bedroom
If your group is actually larger than the number of bedrooms you searched for, look at Poconos Luxury Resort: Pool, Theater, Games before you book two houses. It's a six-bedroom estate in Tobyhanna, not a four, and it sleeps thirty-two with six and a half bathrooms, which is the number that actually decides things on a ski morning. It has an indoor heated pool, a second seven-person hot tub outdoors, a 22-seat movie theater on an eighteen-foot screen across two storeys, an arcade with VR, a pickleball court, a fire pit and a walking trail that loops the property in about ten minutes. The dining table seats twenty, so Christmas-week dinners happen in one room rather than two shifts.
The indoor pool is the part that changes a winter trip. Kids who've been on a chairlift all day still have energy at six o'clock, and a heated pool under a roof in December handles that in a way a deck and a fire pit can't. For a multi-family group splitting the cost, it is often the better per-head decision than two four-bedrooms on different streets.
There's also NEW Indoor lounge pool, hot tub, Glamping, karaoke, another six-bedroom on 2.8 acres with a year-round heated indoor plunge pool, a karaoke stage and a movie room, and a driveway that takes ten cars. Its glamping tent is closed in snow season and the outdoor pool is summer only, so judge it on the indoor spaces.
How to book it without losing the dates
Christmas week is the one window where the right house gets taken while you're still comparing, so the order of operations matters: pick the two homes you'd genuinely be happy with, then ask us to check December 19–23 on both at once. Nightly rates, the stay total, taxes, cleaning and any community fees all move with the calendar, so the figure that matters is the all-in total for your dates, not a headline rate. Minimum-stay rules also tighten over the holidays. Ask, and we'll tell you straight.
A few things to settle in the same conversation: how many of you there actually are against the occupancy cap, whether a dog is coming, and which community forms need submitting before arrival. We're a family-run team with fifteen-plus homes across the Poconos and we book direct, which mostly means you get a person who knows the house, not a call centre reading a listing back to you. Every home uses keyless entry, so once the dates are locked, your arrival on the 19th is a code and a door.
And order firewood ahead if you want a fire pit going. It isn't stocked at any of these houses, and nobody wants to go looking for dry wood at nine at night in December.