Downtown, an easy walk from the historic Harry Packer Mansion and several other local bed and breakfasts, includes a number of must-see stops. The Asa Packer Mansion is next door to Harry's home and deserves a visit to learn more about the colorful and powerful Packer family.
In the heart of the town, at the aptly-named Hazard Square, you won't be able to miss seeing the Jersey Central Railroad Station, a former passenger station now converted into the town's Welcome Center, where you can learn more about the history of Jim Thorpe (formerly known as Mauch Chunk). Locomotives still leave the station every summer and fall, pulling tourists down the tracks along the Lehigh River.
St. Mark's Episcopal Church, built largely using the Packer fortune, was constructed into the hillside on Race Street and incorporates some early Tiffany windows into the Gothic Revival design. Tours of the church are available.
Walking through Jim Thorpe, you'll see many other architecturally significant buildings -- such as Millionaire's Row, a set of beautiful townhouses built between 1860 and 1890, and Stone Row, 16 rowhouses built by Asa Packer for certain employees of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Today, many of the homes on Stone Row are being used as storefronts for artists; one houses a local winery's retail outlet.
Also on the Lehigh River, you can enjoy whitewater rafting in the spring and slower rafting trips in the summer and fall. Several local companies provide rafting trips; when you make reservations at a B&B, be sure to ask the innkeepers to recommend one.
Listed below in alphabetical order are many of the bed and breakfasts and small hotels offering accommodations in the Jim Thorpe area.
Broadway Guest House
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Gilded Cupid, The
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Grassy Hill Bed and Breakfast
Palmerton, Pennsylvania
Guest House, The
Lehighton, Pennsylvania
Harry Packer Mansion
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Hill Home Forge
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Inn at Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Lehigh Tannery Bed and Breakfast
White Haven, Pennsylvania
Manor at Operahouse Square
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Mary's Guest House
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Minnie Victoria Inn
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Oak Tree Inn
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Parsonage, The
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Rendon House Bed and Breakfast
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Riverdance Bed and Breakfast
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Roth House
Palmerton, Pennsylvania
Sweet Reflections Bed and Breakfast
Lehighton, Pennsylvania
Tiffany's Grand Victorian Bed and Breakfast
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
VictoriAnn, The
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
