Pocono Summit is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

that is located in Monroe County,

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...

. Parts of Pocono Summit are located in the municipalities of Coolbaugh and Tobyhanna

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Geography

Pocono Summit is located at (41.111, –75.386). According to the

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, Pocono Summit has a total area of 16.1 square miles (41.7 km), 95% of it land. Pocono Summit is home to Stillwater Lake and Pocono Summit Lake.

Demographics

As of the census of 2010, 2,964 people were living in the area.

Education

The Pocono Mountain School District's Sullivan Trail campus is located in Pocono Summit; the campus includes

Pocono Mountain West High School Pocono Mountain West High School is a large, rural high school located in Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania in the Poconos region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Pocono Mountain West is part of the Pocono Mountain School District and opened in 2002 ...

and Pocono Mountain West Junior High School.

Recreation

Pocono Summit is home to

Camp Minsi Minsi Trails Council is a council of the Boy Scouts of America that serves Scouts in the Lehigh Valley and the Pocono Mountains regions of eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey. In Pennsylvania, the council serves five counties: Lehigh, No ...

, a

Boy Scout A Scout, Boy Scout, Girl Scout or, in some countries, a Pathfinder is a participant in the Scout Movement, usually aged 10–18 years, who engage in learning scoutcraft and outdoor and other special interest activities. Some Scout organizatio ...

camp located on the western shores of Stillwater Lake. The camp was first opened in 1949 and encompasses more than . The area also includes portions of

Pennsylvania State Game Lands The Pennsylvania State Game Lands (SGL) are lands managed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) for hunting, trapping, and fishing. These lands, often not usable for farming or development, are donated to the PGC or purchased by the PGC with ...

127.

Transportation

Pennsylvania State Route 940 Pennsylvania Route 940 (PA 940) is a Pennsylvania highway located in the Pocono Mountains. It runs from PA 309 in Hazleton east to PA 191 in Paradise Valley. Large segments of PA 940 are located in densely forested areas. The route heads no ...

passes over

Pennsylvania State Route 314 Pennsylvania Route 314 (PA 314) is an state highway located in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. The western terminus is at Pennsylvania Route 940, PA 940 in Pocono Summit, Pennsylvania, Pocono Summit. The eastern termin ...

in Pocono Summit. Interstate 380 runs north-south along the edge of the town. Until the early 1960s, the

Lackawanna Railroad The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, also known as the DL&W or Lackawanna Railroad, was a U.S. Class 1 railroad that connected Buffalo, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey, and by ferry with New York City, a distance of . The railroad wa ...

's and then the

Erie Lackawanna Railroad The Erie Lackawanna Railway , known as the Erie Lackawanna Railroad until 1968, was formed from the 1960 merger of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. The official motto of the line was "The Friendly Service Route ...

's '' Lake Cities,'' ''

Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals on Paul Simo ...

'' and ''Twilight'' made stops westbound at the Pocono Summit station; the ''Phoebe Snow'' and the ''Pocono Express'' made stops eastbound at the station. In the latter years of Erie Lackawanna passenger train through the Poconos, Pocono Summit was the last remaining station, between

Scranton Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Scranton is the most populous city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the ...

to the northwest and Cresco to the east, to have service, offering a stop on the ''Lake Cities'' westbound.Erie Lackawanna June 15, 1969 timetable, Table 1

References

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