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Line 1: {{Use mdy dates\|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement \| name = Pocono Summit \| native_name = \| other_name = \| settlement_type = [[~~Unincorporated~~Census-designated ~~area~~place]] <!-- images, nickname, motto --> \| image_skyline = Mount-Pocono-Station.JPG Line 70 ⟶ 71: \| footnotes = }} '''Pocono Summit''' is aan ~~small~~[[unincorporated ~~town~~community]] ~~(Census~~and ~~Class~~[[census-designated ~~Code~~place]] ~~U6)~~that is located in [[Monroe County, Pennsylvania\|Monroe County]], [[Pennsylvania~~]], [[United States~~]]. Parts of Pocono Summit are located in the municipalities of [[Coolbaugh Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania\|Coolbaugh]] and [[Tobyhanna Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania\|Tobyhanna]] [[township]]s. ==Geography== Pocono Summit is located at {{Coord\|41\|6\|39\|N\|75\|23\|09\|W\|type:city}} (41.111, ~~-75~~–75.386). According to the [[United States Census Bureau\|U.S. Census Bureau]], Pocono Summit has a total area of 16.1 square miles (41.7 km{{sup\|2}}), 95% of it land. ~~According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of 16.1 square miles (41.7 km{{sup\|2}}), 95% of it land.~~ Pocono Summit is home to [[Stillwater Lake (Pennsylvania)\|Stillwater Lake]] and [[Pocono Summit Lake]]. ==Demographics== {{US Census population As of the census of 2010, there were 2,964 people living in the area.▼ \|2000= 2131 \|2010= 2964 \|align= right }} ▲As of the census of 2010, ~~there were~~ 2,964 people were living in the area. ==Education== The [[Pocono Mountain School District\|Pocono Mountain School District's]] Sullivan Trail campus is located in Pocono Summit; the campus includes [[Pocono Mountain West High School]] and Pocono Mountain West Junior High School.<ref name="PMSD">{{cite web \| url = http://www.pmsd.org/Default.aspx?tabid=93 \| title = Pocono Mountain West High School \| ~~accessdate~~access-date = 2010-05-11 \| publisher = [[Pocono Mountain School District]]}}</ref> ==Recreation== Pocono Summit is home to [[Camp Minsi]], a [[Boy Scouts of America\|Boy Scout]] camp located on the western shores of Stillwater Lake. The camp was first opened in 1949 and encompasses more than {{Convert\|1,200\|acres\|ha\|lk=out}}.<ref name="minsi">{{cite web \| url = http://www.campminsi.org \| title = Campminsi.org \| ~~accessdate~~access-date = 2010-05-11 \| publisher = [[Camp Minsi]]}}</ref> The area also includes portions of [[Pennsylvania State Game Lands]] 127. Line 93 ⟶ 99: [[Pennsylvania State Route 940]] passes over [[Pennsylvania State Route 314]] in Pocono Summit. [[Interstate 380 (Pennsylvania)\|Interstate 380]] runs north-south along the edge of the town. Until the early 1960s, the [[Lackawanna Railroad]]'s and then the [[Erie Lackawanna Railroad]]'s ''[[Lake Cities (train)\|Lake Cities]],'' ''[[Phoebe Snow (train)\|Phoebe Snow]]'' and ''Twilight'' made stops westbound at the Pocono Summit station; the ''Phoebe Snow'' and the ''Pocono Express'' made stops eastbound at the station.<ref>'Lackawanna Railroad timetable, January 1, 1960, Table 3, 6 http://streamlinermemories.info/Eastern/Lackawanna60TT.pdf </ref><ref>'Official Guide of the Railways,' December 1964, Erie Lackawanna section, p. 247</ref> In the latter years of Erie Lackawanna passenger train through the Poconos, Pocono Summit was the last remaining station, between [[Scranton]] to the northwest and [[Cresco, Pennsylvania\|Cresco]] to the east, to have service, offering a stop on the ''Lake Cities'' westbound.<ref>Erie Lackawanna June 15, 1969 timetable, Table 1</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{commons category}} {{Monroe County, Pennsylvania}} {{authority control}} [[Category:~~The~~Pocono ~~Poconos~~Mountains]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Unincorporated communities in Pennsylvania]]