Great Wolf Lodge Poconos Expansion
To meet the growing needs of one of the nation’s largest family water park resort destinations, UTRS Civil and Environmental Engineering provided a suite of professional services to ensure the planning, design, permitting, and construction of a major resort expansion.
project details
Client
Great Wolf Lodge of the Poconos
Location
Scotrun, PA
Services
Industries
The fast-growing Great Wolf Resorts chain’s Poconos site, which opened in 2005 and is located just 90 minutes from New York City, was due for a major expansion. In 2024, the Scotrun, PA location completed a multi-year, $125 million renovation and expansion. These included general resort updates with a restaurant expansion and new hotel wing, new guest villas, and family-friendly visitor suites, as well as water park updates with new slides, indoor pools, and water play areas. With these developments, the grand total of rooms at Great Wolf Lodge Pocono Mountains reached well over 600, which makes it the second largest of 20 resorts in the Great Wolf Lodge portfolio.
A vital back-of-house component of these enhanced amenities is providing for additional on-site staff housing for employees of the resort. Many of the 1000 anticipated “Pack Members,” who currently commute to work, are expected to occupy this proposed 53-room, 204-bed employee residential facility on the resort property. Once constructed, the new housing building will give the Lodge the flexibility to meet its staffing needs.
In October, 2024, Good Housekeeping placed Great Wolf Lodge on its list of 10 of America’s Best Water Parks, citing Great Wolf Lodge Poconos in particular and noting: “Contrary to most others on the list, these parks stay open year-round for aquatic adventure no matter the weather… guests can enjoy wave pools, slides and lazy rivers all day long, then retire to their resort-style accommodations without ever leaving the property.”
Title Review and Surveying
Plan Development
Hydrologic Expertise
Permitting
Construction Administration Services
UTRS Civil and Environmental Engineering is the combination of Eastern Pennsylvania and Northern New Jersey engineering and land survey firms with stellar records of continuous professional services going back a century. The experts in our East Stroudsburg, PA and Washington Township, NJ offices have earned the trust of their local communities for many decades. They know the Poconos, its residents, its regional authorities and ordinances, and they were prepared for all the project nuances that the Great Wolf Lodge expansion effort would face.
With a full team of civil, environmental, and geotechnical engineers, surveyors, land planners, and environmental scientists, UTRS Civil and Environmental Engineering provided professional assistance with land development and agency permit applications, construction documentation, and additional civil engineering services to ensure the Lodge met the needs of its guest and workforce.
UTRS Civil Engineering has the expertise to support you and your other contractors as you face environmental factors, transportation considerations, topography and buffering requirements, as well as local jurisdictions, permits, and the need for professional representation and confidentiality.
