Split Rock Roads

Ownership & Responsibility

Split Rock Investments owns the roads

Successor of Vacation Charters, Ltd.. Carbon County Deed Book 1892, Page 683 identifies Split Rock Investments, LLC as successor of Vacation Charters, Ltd.

Split Rock Investments signs the community road-maintenance reports, collects road-maintenance fees, and treats the roads as its responsibility.

The chain of events

Roads and resort later split. Jump to a year, or read straight down.

  1. 1981

    Both

    Jack Kalins takes Split Rock

    Jack and Barbara Kalins buy Split Rock and fold it into Vacation Charters, Ltd.

    • Public reporting says they purchased Split Rock stock on April 2, 1981 and merged it into Vacation Charters.
    • From this point, Vacation Charters is the company that owns and runs the resort and the community roads.
    Source

    Pocono Record, March 1, 2012, recounting the 1981 purchase.

  2. 1990–1992

    Roads

    Vacation Charters owns and bills the roads

    Court opinions from this period describe Vacation Charters as the road owner and the party collecting maintenance charges.

    • The 1990 and 1992 Pennsylvania opinions describe Vacation Charters as then owning and operating Moseywood Road.
    • They also discuss road-maintenance charges paid by Split Rock property owners.
    • One house instrument still reserves abutting road ownership to Vacation Charters, successors and assigns, and covenants an annual common-road assessment.
    Source

    Vacation Charters, Ltd. v. Pa. PUC (1990 / 1992); house instrument clauses 9 and 11.

  3. 1993–1999

    Both

    Vacation Charters goes through Chapter 11

    The Kalins-era company is reorganized. It is not, by itself, a sale of the roads to a new owner.

    • Vacation Charters filed Chapter 11 in June 1993.
    • Contemporary press said it emerged after refinancing by 1999.
    • The roads remain on the Vacation Charters line unless a later deed moves them.
    Source

    Morning Call, June 11, 1999.

  4. 2012

    Resort

    The resort goes to sheriff’s sale. Homeowner land does not.

    Foreclosure hits the lodge, hotel, and water-park parcels. Reporting at the time said the homeowner acres were outside that sale.

    • TD Bank moved to foreclose a $21 million mortgage.
    • The Carbon County Sheriff scheduled an April 13, 2012 sale of about 300 acres: Split Rock Lodge, the Galleria hotel, and the water park.
    • Press accounts said Vacation Charters also held about 600 acres that included homes, and that those acres were not in the sheriff’s sale.
    • That split is the start of two chains: resort land moving, road and homeowner land staying on the older line.
    Source

    Pocono Record, March 1, 2012; Standard Speaker, February 27, 2012.

  5. 2015–2016

    Resort

    Stabilis takes the resort

    Stabilis Split Rock JV LLC is formed and is then identified as owner of the Split Rock resort.

    • Pennsylvania records show Stabilis Split Rock JV, LLC registered December 9, 2015.
    • In August 2016 Carbon County approved tax refunds to Stabilis Split Rock JV LLC as the owner of the Split Rock resort.
    • This is the Stabilis era for the hotel and resort asset. It is not a deed of the Split Rock roads to Stabilis.
    Source

    PA entity record 6331004; Standard Speaker, August 26, 2016.

  6. 2020

    Resort

    SCH USA buys the resort

    The resort — and the resort wells — transfer again. The road successor deed does not.

    • SCH USA later told the PUC it purchased the Split Rock Resort property on October 29, 2020, and the wells that serve the resort at the same time.
    • Hotel branding later appears as Split Rock Hotel by Bel Air.
    • Split Rock Investments, LLC and SCH USA, LLC later appear together in a Pennsylvania Attorney General timeshare settlement. That shows related operating parties. It does not make the hotel owner the road owner.
    Source

    PA PUC testimony, dockets C-2022-3036893 and C-2022-3037118; PA Attorney General settlement reporting.

  7. Now

    Roads

    Split Rock Investments owns the roads

    The successor deed names Split Rock Investments. Split Rock’s own road-maintenance role matches that deed.

    • Carbon County Deed Book 1892, Page 683 identifies Split Rock Investments, LLC as successor of Vacation Charters, Ltd.
    • The house instrument had already reserved those roadway interests to Vacation Charters and its successors.
    • Split Rock Investments signs the October 2, 2025 road-maintenance newsletter, bills the community for road-maintenance fees, and publishes the 2024 and 2025 road-expense summaries.
    • Resort ownership moved through foreclosure, Stabilis, and SCH USA. Road ownership stayed on the Vacation Charters successor line.
    Source

    Carbon County Deed Book 1892, Page 683; house instrument clauses 9 and 11; Financial and Road Maintenance Expense Report, October 2, 2025.

Supporting record What we used to build this timeline

Who owns the roads

Split Rock Investments, LLC. It is the successor of Vacation Charters, Ltd., and it is the entity that assesses and reports road maintenance.

What the successor deed states

Carbon County Deed Book 1892, Page 683 identifies Split Rock Investments, LLC as successor of Vacation Charters, Ltd. The house instrument had already reserved abutting road ownership to Vacation Charters, successors and assigns.

What Split Rock does with the roads

It collects road-maintenance fees and issues the community road-expense summaries. The October 2, 2025 newsletter is signed Split Rock Investments, LLC.

Why the resort transfers are on the timeline

Kalins, foreclosure, Stabilis, and SCH USA explain what happened to the resort. They are not a substitute for the road successor deed.

What still helps the file

A scan of Deed Book 1892, Page 683 with the legal description visible, and the recorded foreclosure, Stabilis, and SCH deeds for the resort parcels, so the two chains can be shown side by side from originals.

House instrument · 2025 road-maintenance letter · Submit a recorded deed

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