Bear Creek Ski and Recreation Area
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Bear Creek is a ski resort
near Macungie
, in the Berks County region of Pennsylvania
, in the United States
. The resort opened in 1967. It was known as the Doe Mountain until 1999.
The official name of the property is Bear Creek Mountain Resort & Conference Center. It is a year round resort on more than 330 acres (1.3 km²) that features a variety of activities and amenities. In addition to skiing, guests can enjoy hiking, mountain biking, fishing and boating in the summer months. The resort also offers a 116 room hotel, a full service salon and spa, three dining facilities and over 26000 square feet (2,415.5 m²) of banquet and meeting space.
Bear Creek is the only ski resort located in the Lehigh Valley
and surrounding areas, though many ski resorts are located 30 miles (48.3 km) north of the Lehigh Valley, in The Poconos
.
Bear Creek Mountain has a summit elevation
of 1100 feet (335.3 m) and vertical elevation
change of 510 ft (155.4 m). There are 86 acres (348,030 m²) of skiing terrain. The longest run is .9 miles in length. The mountain
has a total of 21 slopes and 7 lifts.
It also features night skiing and snowtubing. The mountain summit
receives an average of 30 inches (76.2 cm) of snow
fall each winter.
Ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing and other winter sports. In Europe a ski resort is a town or village in a ski area - a mountainous area, where there are ski trails and supporting services such as hotels and other accommodation, restaurants, equipment rental and a ski lift system...
near Macungie
Macungie, Pennsylvania
Macungie is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the second oldest borough in the county and a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.-History:...
, in the Berks County region of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, in the United States
United States
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. The resort opened in 1967. It was known as the Doe Mountain until 1999.
The official name of the property is Bear Creek Mountain Resort & Conference Center. It is a year round resort on more than 330 acres (1.3 km²) that features a variety of activities and amenities. In addition to skiing, guests can enjoy hiking, mountain biking, fishing and boating in the summer months. The resort also offers a 116 room hotel, a full service salon and spa, three dining facilities and over 26000 square feet (2,415.5 m²) of banquet and meeting space.
Bear Creek is the only ski resort located in the Lehigh Valley
Lehigh Valley
The Lehigh Valley, known officially by the United States Census Bureau as the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area and referred to locally as The Valley and A-B-E, is a metropolitan region consisting of Lehigh, Northampton, Berks, and Carbon counties in eastern Pennsylvania and...
and surrounding areas, though many ski resorts are located 30 miles (48.3 km) north of the Lehigh Valley, in The Poconos
The Poconos
The Pocono Mountains is a region located in northeastern Pennsylvania, United States. The Poconos, located chiefly in Monroe and Pike counties , are an upland of the larger Allegheny Plateau...
.
Bear Creek Mountain has a summit elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 1100 feet (335.3 m) and vertical elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
change of 510 ft (155.4 m). There are 86 acres (348,030 m²) of skiing terrain. The longest run is .9 miles in length. The mountain
Mountain
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has a total of 21 slopes and 7 lifts.
It also features night skiing and snowtubing. The mountain summit
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...
receives an average of 30 inches (76.2 cm) of snow
Snow
Snow is a form of precipitation within the Earth's atmosphere in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. Since snow is composed of small ice particles, it is a granular material. It has an open and therefore soft structure, unless packed by...
fall each winter.
Bear Creek in popular culture
- Bam MargeraBam MargeraBrandon Cole "Bam" Margera is an American professional skateboarder, television and radio personality, actor and daredevil. He released a series of videos under the CKY banner and came to prominence after being drafted into MTV's Jackass crew...
visited Bear Creek for a portion of his television series, Viva La BamViva La BamViva La Bam is an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared...
. During his visit, the band ClutchClutchA clutch is a mechanical device which provides for the transmission of power from one component to another...
performed at the bottom of the tubing hill.