Bushkill in Pike County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Delaware Water Gap

Smithfield Beach

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 2, 2015

1. Delaware Water Gap Marker

Inscription. Welcome to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. This unit of the National Park system stretches along both sides of the middle Delaware River for 40 miles from Milford in the north to the scenic Water Gap in the south. The park has places to boat, fish, swim, camp, hike, and sightsee. Visitor centers are open at Kittatinny Point just off Interstate 80 at the Water Gap in New Jersey and in season at Dingmans Falls and at Bushkill on the Pennsylvania side.

Erected by National Park Service-United States Department of the Interior.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Environment • Waterways & Vessels.

Location. 41° 1.741′ N, 75° 3.154′ W. Marker is in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, in Pike County. It is on River Road (CR 2028). Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Bushkill PA 18324, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.

It is also in the American Northeast,

in the Mid-Atlantic,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Northern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy

and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: This National Park Is Our Home (here, next to this marker); Wild & Scenic River (here, next to this marker); Smithfield Church (approx. 0.6 miles away); Shawnee Mountain (approx. 1.1 miles away); Old Mine Road (approx. 1.4 miles away in New

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Jersey); The Trepp Lodge (approx. 1.7 miles away); Sunfish Pond (approx. 2.4 miles away in New Jersey); Marshalls Creek Explosion (approx. 2.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Bushkill.

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 2, 2015

2. Delaware Water Gap Marker

Delaware Water Gap-Smithfield Beach image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 2, 2015

3. Delaware Water Gap-Smithfield Beach

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on August 12, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 654 times since then and 14 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on August 12, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.