Birchwood Lakes, PA

Birchwood Lakes is a Pike County census-designated place in Delaware Township, off Pennsylvania 739 near the New Jersey line. The community was established in the 1960s as a Pocono summer community, and its map is a weave of lakes and private roads with the mountains as the backdrop. Many of the early cottages have since become year-round homes, while the Delaware River and Delaware Water Gap sit nearby on the wider map. Birchwood Lakes is an eastern Pennsylvania place whose story is about a planned lake community becoming a lasting part of the Pocono landscape.