The community is located along Pennsylvania Route 739 in eastern Pike County, about eight miles west of the New Jersey state line at the Delaware River.

Considered a part of the Glaciated Low Plateau section of Pennsylvania, the land is slightly varied in elevation with Sunrise Lake's main dam measured at 1309.8 feet above sea level[5] Before the arrival of European settlers, the land now encompassing most of Pike County was the domain of the Lenape people.

The Lenape were expelled from the area after the Walking Purchase of 1737, which placed a large amount of new territory under the control of the Province of Pennsylvania.

After the Revolutionary War, the former colony became today's Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and land began to be settled.

It leads south to the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and U.S. Route 209.