Dec 152015
 

Birchwood was a quiet honeymoon resort, that like most Poconos resorts, had a heyday in the 60s and saw a rapid decline leading to mass closures in the 80s and 90s. Birchwood was briefly in the news in 2014 when a convicted cop-killer Eric Frein was caught hiding in the airplane hanger at the Birchwood airport, where he’d been holed up for seven weeks. 

Birchwood is owned by the guy who owns Spa Castle in Queens, and he stated he had plans to open another spa castle at Birchwood, however as of 2022, that had not happened. In 2021, a fire completely destroyed one of the main buildings. Two men were later arrested for arson. 

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The airplane hanger Eric Frein hid out in.

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See more photos of Birchwood on flickr.

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