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Delaware Water Gap

American  

noun

  1. a gorge on the boundary between E Pennsylvania and NW New Jersey.


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Ella Vallverdu, 14, learned in May that her camp, Pine Forest, in Pennsylvania near the Delaware Water Gap, would be hosting a two-day mahjong clinic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

His father operated a small hotel, the Bellevue Inn, from a Victorian house near the Delaware Water Gap.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 6, 2023

When New York City suddenly shut down amid the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Marilyn moved to Pike County, Pennsylvania, a rural region hugging the scenic Delaware Water Gap and the Pocono Mountains.

From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2020

National Parks Service officials at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area said the 30-year-old man’s body was recovered at about 6:15 p.m.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 27, 2020

I was in the midst of several thousand acres of exquisitely pretty woodlands shared jointly by Worthington State Forest and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

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