Pond Mornings: Wake Up to Your Own Water
Few things are as quietly luxurious as water that belongs to no one but you.
Imagine your stay beginning like this: you wake in a bedroom that looks out over rolling, wooded hills — the Endless Mountains stretching out in soft morning light — and before anything else, you take your coffee down to the pond. La Crescenta has its own private pond, and in the early hours it is at its most magical: a thin mist drifting across the surface, birdsong rising from the trees, the water glassy and still.
There is no itinerary here. You might sit at the pond’s edge and watch the mist burn off. You might wander the open acreage as the hilltop wakes up around you. You might simply stand there, breathing the cool mountain air, feeling the day arrive at its own pace. On a property this secluded, with no close neighbors and nothing to interrupt you, the morning can be as long and as lazy as you want it to be. Breakfast happens when you are ready — and it happens with a view.
View-Lined Afternoons: The Hills Do the Entertaining
As the day warms, the bungalow becomes a viewing gallery. Every window seems to frame the same endless answer: ridge after ridge of Pennsylvania hills, green in summer, gold and crimson in fall, snow-softened in winter. The living room invites you to do absolutely nothing in the most comfortable way possible — a good book, a long conversation, the view doing half the talking.
When restlessness strikes, the game room is waiting for a friendly tournament, and the grounds are yours to explore — open acreage, the pond, the big sky over the hilltop. There is no schedule to keep and no one else’s timetable to honor. Some guests will spend an afternoon reading by the window; others will drift between the pond, the game room and the view. The luxury of La Crescenta is not just what is here — it is that all of it is yours, privately, and none of it requires a reservation, a ticket or a drive.
“A day at La Crescenta moves at one speed: yours. Pond mornings, endless views, warm water, and a theater that turns night into an event.”
Pool Evenings: Warm Water, Whatever the Weather
By late afternoon, the indoor heated pool calls. Open all year and always warm, it is the easiest decision of your day. Slip into the water and feel the whole afternoon melt off — a long, unhurried swim, or a float with your eyes on the light through the pool-room windows as the day begins its golden descent.
The pool at La Crescenta is its own kind of retreat-within-a-retreat: private, quiet, and perfectly warm on a crisp fall evening or a snowy winter day alike. There are no crowds, no lane ropes, no closing whistle — just you, your people,
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La Crescenta is a secluded luxury bungalow on a private hilltop in Montrose, PA — with its own pond, endless views, an indoor heated pool, a game room and a 185″ theater. Days like this are first-come, first-served.
Check AvailabilityLa Crescenta is located in Montrose, PA, in the Binghamton and Endless Mountains region. The bungalow welcomes pets and sleeps 7–10 guests.