A Little Piece of Heaven

Summer is the time where all the madness starts with people of different ages. This is the time for no school, sleeping in late, seeing friends, and most importantly having fun. Everyone goes into summer thinking it's going to be the best one they’ve had, but everyone ends up saying the same thing, “I wish I had a beach house” or “ I wish I could go to an Island”. Well no one usually says that they want to go to a lake especially people that have grown up in New Jersey. New Jersey is known for the ocean so why change what we know.

Deer Trail Lake in Pocono Pines, PA happens to be a 15 acre spring fed lake that not many people known about. It is one of the more private lakes in the Lake Naomi Community. The only people that really know about Deer Trail Lake are the people with the lakefront homes. The Lake Naomi community requires a certain amount of trees around the lake to keep the lake looking beautiful with scenery as well as adding to the privacy of people’s homes. 

The warm dock brings in the rays of sun that shines onto everyone's skin; the water stays calm and clear as a small breeze goes by. The calmness of the water will bring you into a peaceful state of mind where one is able to think of their inner thoughts. Kids are laughing in the distance at the sandy beach off the lake while running in and out of the water splashing each other. The fish are jumping as the poles are being casted into the water by the retired men on their boats.

Soon my neighbor Marian floats over to my dock on her raft. She soon starts saying that she use to be on the Timber Trails Lake in the Lake Naomi Community for 10 years and has only been on Deer Trail for 5 years. “It’s funny because we never even knew that Deer Trail Lake existed but now my husband and I don’t want to leave” said Marian. Her and her husband, Harvey, use this house as a vacation home. It's somewhere her two children and four grandchildren could come to have fun. 

When in the lake, water shoes are a must since the floor of the lake has two different elements being rocks and mud. The rocks are always nice to stand on but without shoes, they are extremely slippery while the mud is almost indescribable from the mysterious texture that hits your skin. As one swims or walks farther into the lake, they will notice that the temperature of the water changes constantly. There are several warm and cold spots through out the lake that pop-up randomly. 

This community is a family oriented place that has tons of activities to participate in at the three Lake Club Houses. There is one club house in Lake Naomi, one in Deer Trail, and one in Timber Trails. Each club house is meant for different activities but all three can be used by someone in this private community. The one club house in Lake Naomi has a huge pool that is off the lake. It is a unique pool considering it looks like it is pretty much on the lake and is the largest heated outdoor pool in Pennsylvania. The club house located in Deer Trail is the recreation/community center. It has the gym, indoor pool, sauna, indoor courts for sports, and outdoor tennis court. The last club house is in Timber Trails which has a golf course as well as an outdoor pool with the feature of a rock wall to jump off of into the pool. For a more in-depth look at the club houses, view this video: