The stop is located on the tracks below Landing Road (Morris County Route 631) next to the eponymous Lake Hopatcong.

Service through the Landing area began on January 16, 1854, for the Morris and Essex Railroad, but there was no stop at the shore of Lake Hopatcong.

[12] The Lackawanna Railroad announced on July 15, 1910, that a new station would be built at Lake Hopatcong, just east of the nearby county bridge.

[13] The new station opened on May 28, 1911, a new all-concrete structure with two elevators and a complete walkway on the south side of the Morris Canal.

[18] But Landing itself, one of several hamlets that arose to serve the canal's boat crews and mule teams,[19] held no particular promise as a revenue stop, and so no station was built there for about 30 years.

That began to change in 1882, when the Central Railroad of New Jersey opened a station further up the lake and proved that there was money in direct passenger service to a promising vacation spot.

[20] The small depot and platforms were sandwiched between the tracks and the canal, requiring most passengers to enter and depart via the steel, cable-stayed Landing Road Bridge.

[19][20] A steamboat company, the Black Line, was founded that same year by "the same financial syndicate that owned the Lackawanna Railway and the Morris Canal.

In 1891,[17] when the new White Line steamboat company failed to secure the right to ply the canal, it dredged the swampy, non-navigable southern tip to create Landing Channel and erect a pier a block or so away from the tracks.

During its operation by the DL&W and its successor, the Erie Lackawanna, the Lake Hopatcong station provided transfers between trains using the Cut-Off and those headed to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, and Portland, Pennsylvania, via the Old Main line.

[5] The stone station building, whose address became 125 Landing Road, served as a real estate office and a hardware store.

On November 6, 2014, the building was purchased by the Lake Hopatcong Foundation,[33] which aimed to use part of the structure as office and meeting space, and open the rest to the public as an environmental and cultural center.

[18] Since 2008, New Jersey Transit has relaid tracks and undertaken other preparations to restore service to a 7.3-mile (11.7 km) segment of the Lackawanna Cut-Off route between Port Morris Junction and a planned station at Andover in Sussex County.