Pleasant Gap is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

It is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[3] Pleasant Gap is located south of the center of Centre County at 40°52′1″N 77°44′37″W / 40.86694°N 77.74361°W / 40.86694; -77.74361 (40.866926, -77.743539).

Gap Run flows off the mountain through the physical Pleasant Gap and continues through the town, entering the Logan Branch, a northward-flowing tributary of Spring Creek, on the northwestern side of town.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the Pleasant Gap CDP has a total area of 1.63 square miles (4.21 km2), all land.