Emerald Lakes Pennsylvania Map

About Emerald Lakes, Pennsylvania

Emerald Lakes is a locality in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,895. The population density is 375.6 people per km². Emerald Lakes is located at 41.0884°N, 75.4196°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 18334.

Emerald Lakes emerges from the dense, verdant folds of the landscape where the Dry Sawmill Run carves a persistent path through the earth. It lies 11.0 miles north of Chestnuthill, PA (from Chestnuthill, PA: bearing 358°T), and is situated 5.7 miles north-northeast of Sierra View. The air here holds the damp, mossy weight of the nearby Delaware-Lehigh State Experimental Forest, a silence punctuated only by the rhythmic flow of the creek as it feeds into the Ramot Lakes. To the west, the jagged silhouette of the Pocono Mountains defines the horizon, their deep purple ridges standing as a stoic barrier against the wider world. The light at dusk settles over the water in shifting layers of slate and copper, reflecting the heavy timber that dominates the terrain and gives the region its somber, shadowed beauty.

Emerald Lakes carries the quiet gravity of a place built upon the labor of the interior, where the economic pulse has long been tethered to the timber and the slow, deliberate work of the land. Residents find their recreation at the Eagle Creek Playground, a patch of maintained green that serves as a communal anchor amidst the encroaching wild. While the distant, thundering descent of Paradise Falls draws the curious, life in Emerald Lakes remains tethered to the local pace of the seasons, often punctuated by a trek along the Camelback Trail. It is a locality defined by its inland isolation, far from the frantic energy of the coast, where history is found not in grand monuments, but in the enduring, stubborn resilience of the ridge-and-valley topography.

About This Emerald Lakes Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Emerald Lakes, Pennsylvania. Coordinates: 41.088422, -75.419629. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Emerald Lakes includes the ZIP code (18334), telephone area code (215, 223, 267, 272, 412, 445, 484, 570, 582, 610, 717, 724, 814, 835, 878), county seat of Monroe County (Stroudsburg), and school district assignment (Pocono Mountain School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.