It is situated along the Gatineau River north of Wakefield, and it is located within Canada's National Capital Region.

A section of Low called Tucker Lake was home of the Gatineau Clog, a country music festival founded by Wayne Rostad in 1980 until 1995.

Low is situated in a corner of mountainous terrain on the edge of the Gatineau Hills, but conducive to agriculture.

It was named after Charles Adamson Low, an important timber merchant of the region in the mid-19th century, a time when many Irish immigrants settled here.

This caused the voluntary flooding of the village to the north, Lac Saint Marie, Quebec.