The condo has two bedrooms and a loft, and two full bathrooms.  The master bedroom has a queen-size bed and the other bedroom has two twins.  The loft has a sofa bed, and the couch in the living room is also a sofa bed.  All together, if you're all friends, eight people can spend the night.  There is china and glassware for eight.

We don't have air conditioning, because in the Laurel Highlands you don't need it!  We find that the temperature at the Summit at Hidden Valley is usually about fifteen degrees cooler than in our home outside Washington, D.C.  That means that when it's in the nineties at home--as it is much of the summer--it's in the low eighties at Hidden Valley.  We bought our place for the skiing, but now we enjoy even more during the summer than during the ski season.

This photo shows a front view of our home during the summer.  We visited over the Fourth of July weekend, and enjoyed temperatures that were in the mid-seventies, while at home the Washington, DC area sweltered in the low nineties!

We took a day for the most beautiful bike ride we know, Ohiopyle to Confluence.  This ride goes along a converted rail trail that's quite flat.  The ride is ten miles along the Youghigeny River.  For most of the ride you don't see any civilization at all; just the bike path with woods on one side and the gorgeous river on the other side.  There's a train track across the river, so now and then you hear the distant sound of a train's whistle or the clackety clack of a train going by.

We don't have air conditioning, because we have great cross-ventilation and there is just no need for air conditioning.  There is always a breeze at the top of the mountain, so you just open the windows and the breeze drifts through. 

Here's another photo of the same scene, taken during the ski season.

The Crossover Trail is about 150 feet to the right as you face the front door.  It's on the other side of another row of residences--which is very helpful, because sometimes the noise of snowmaking goes on all night, not to mention the staff who go back and forth on their snowmobiles all night long getting the snow ready for the next day's skiing.  We appreciate their work, but we've learned that it's pretty noisy, so we are glad that we're not directly on the Crossover Trail.

What you can't see in either of these photos is the firewood bin that's just to the right of the entrance, about 30 feet from the front porch.  It's always stocked with good firewood, mostly oak, cut to the length of the fireplace.  Even during spring and fall, not just winter, you can enjoy a fire in the cool evening.

We enjoy a fire so much that we made a major upgrade to the original fireplace, and had this big fireplace built with glass doors, with a raised hearth to make it more visible and make it easier to build and tend the fire.  The resort does a good job of maintaining a woodpile of firewood that burns beautifully, about twenty feet from the front door, so you won't have any trouble keeping a good supply of firewood.   in our Hidden Valley home. 

That little cat on the fireplace is a real favorite of ours.  We found him in a little gift shop in the Laurel Mountains.  Here's a closeup of this little guy on skis. 

We say that he needs to attend the Hidden Valley Ski School--his weight isn't forward.  However, in all the years we've seen him on skis, we've never seen him fall even once!

The kitchen is fully equipped with all the pots and pans and cooking tools you need.  There is also plenty of china to serve eight; and plenty of large and small drinking glasses and wine glasses, too.  You'll be eating from quality plates with quality tableware and other equipment.  Here's a photo of the kitchen, that opens into the living/dining area.  This works out well on a vacation, because it allows the cooks to interact with everyone who will be enjoying the meal.  As you can see if you look closely, there's a blender, toaster and electric can opener.  You can't see them, but of course there's a dishwasher and garbage disposal.

The dining table is just adjacent to the kitchen.  There's a sizable table, plenty big enough to serve

eight, should you want to. 

Finally, here's a view of part of the living area.  I've added a closer photo of those wooden chairs that you see--they're made by local Amish craftsmen.  They don't look comfortable, but you'll be amazed, they extremely comfortable, and you'll fall i love with them, especially the rocker.