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Kunkletown sits in Polk Township, Monroe County, on SR 534 — a corridor that runs between Blue Mountain ski area to the south and Camelback Mountain to the north. It is agricultural and rural, the kind of community where a farmstead garage from 1940 sits next to a 1985 ranch home, and both have garage doors that need service. What Kunkletown does not have is a garage door company anywhere nearby that has bothered to write a page for it.
Carbon County operators treat Polk Township as the edge of their map. Monroe County operators based in East Stroudsburg focus on the northern Pocono communities. Kunkletown falls in the gap between both. Ryan's shop in Palmerton is 15 miles away on SR 534 — a direct 25-minute run. He is as close to Kunkletown as anyone, and he is the only one who has specifically said so.
What We Do in Kunkletown
Farmstead and barn-style door installation — Kunkletown has a meaningful stock of older agricultural and rural properties where the garage or outbuilding door is not a standard residential width. A dairy barn converted to residential use may have a 14-foot wide opening. A century-old farmstead garage may have a single-car opening that measures 9'2" between the jambs — not a catalog width. Ryan measures in the field before anything is ordered, every time.
Standard residential door replacement — The 1980s and 1990s ranch homes on the township roads around Kunkletown run standard single-car and two-car attached garages with torsion springs. These are straightforward door-and-spring replacements. The ski-corridor seasonal rental properties on SR 534 often have the same hardware, and when a spring fails before a rental weekend, a fast response is the product.
Broken spring replacement — The SR 534 ski corridor between Blue Mountain and Camelback means there are seasonal rental properties in the Kunkletown area that sit vacant October through December and then get heavy use. A door that was fine in September may have a spring that failed over a cold month of disuse. Ryan carries the common spring sizes and can often address the failure same-day.
New door installation for ski-corridor properties — Rental properties on the Blue Mountain–Camelback corridor are getting upgraded as owners invest in the short-term rental market. A carriage-style or modern insulated door on a Kunkletown rental is a booking-photo upgrade as much as a mechanical one.
The BNI Connection
Ryan's BNI chapter is BNI East Stroudsburg and the Poconos — the chapter that covers this Monroe County corridor. The network is active in the Kunkletown and Polk Township area. When a BNI chapter member needs a garage door, they know exactly who is the local operator for this specific corridor.
Practical Info
Permit authority: Polk Township supervisors (Monroe County). Building permits for new installations and structural modifications are issued by Polk Township. Standard door-for-door replacement typically does not require a permit; confirm for any structural work on the opening.
Distance from shop: About 25 minutes from Palmerton via SR 534.
Phone: (610) 826-2400
Nearby Areas We Also Serve
- Palmerton — 15 miles west on SR 534
- Brodheadsville — 8 miles east on SR 534
Palmerton Garage Door II LLC
3785 Forest Inn Rd · Palmerton, PA 18071
(610) 826-2400 · ryan@palmertongarage.com
Call for hours, or stop by the showroom on Forest Inn Road.