Stroudsburg in Monroe County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Delaware Water Gap

Point of Gap Overlook

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 3, 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 this topic list: Waterways & Vessels.

Location. 40° 58.034′ N, 75° 7.316′ W. Marker is in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in Monroe County. It is on North Delaware Drive (PA 611). Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Stroudsburg PA 18360, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Pocono Mountains

and in Greater Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. 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: Kittatinny Point (approx. half a mile away in New Jersey); a different marker also named Delaware Water Gap (approx. 1.1 miles away); Waring Drive (approx. 1½ miles away); John Philip Sousa (approx. 1½ miles away); War Memorial

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(approx. 1.6 miles away); Shawnee-Minisink Archaeological Site (approx. 2.1 miles away); Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (approx. 2.3 miles away in New Jersey); Slateford (approx. 2½ miles away).

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 3, 2015

2. Delaware Water Gap Marker

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 3, 2015

3. Delaware Water Gap Marker

Delaware Water Gap-Point of Gap Overlook sign image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Don Morfe, August 3, 2015

4. Delaware Water Gap-Point of Gap Overlook sign

Credits. This page was last revised on June 16, 2016. It was originally submitted on August 13, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 534 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 13, 2015, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.