Features
The Bishop Hodur Retreat & Recreation Center is ideally suited for youth camps, seminars, picnics, family reunions, spiritual and religious retreats. It is located in the beautiful community of Waymart, Pennsylvania.
The recreation center is easily accessible from such interstate highways as Routes 81, 84, 380 and 80.
Recreation Center Photo Gallery
Features include:
- Modern dormitory with accommodations for up to 110 individuals
- Commons area with seating for up to 300 people; ideal for meetings, social activities and dances
- Off road parking for up to 250 vehicles
- Separate kitchen facility and pavilion
- Apple orchard picnic grove
- Swim complex with a large inground pool staffed by trained lifeguards
- Two baseball fields
- Numerous wooded hiking trails
- Large fishing pond bordered by a pine grove teeming with wildlife indigenous to the area
- A large, contemporary chapel at an adjacent facility (formerly The Manor at Waymart); ideal for spiritual events
- Walking distance to Happy Trails Stables
History
In 1929 it was Bishop Francis Hodur’s vision to establish a facility that would provide a natural and wholesome environment for youth, a serene setting for the elderly and a place suitable for religious retreats, patriotic picnics and family gatherings.
