Mission Statement
Spanning the Gap is a multi-page park newsletter produced and distributed through the Division of Visitor Services, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The goal of Spanning the Gap is to educate visitors and neighbors about the recreation area's resources, events, and issues.

History of Spanning the Gap
Spanning the Gap has been published continuously since 1983. Through 1995, it was printed in black-and-white folded newspaper format, with 4 to 8 pages and as many as a half-dozen features, some long and some very brief. Since 1996 it has been printed in its current two-color 8 1/2-by-11 newsletter format, with 8 to 12 pages, one in-depth feature article, and one to four briefer articles.

Features from Spanning the Gap on line
ϑ Features from 1983 to 2004 inclusive have been converted to pdf files and placed on line. During conversion, these features were updated and amplified with additional and color images that were not included with the original printed version of the text.
ϑ Features from 2005 to the present appear on-line as pdf files created directly from the two-color print copy. Additonal material for these features may contain color images.

Finding a page from past issues of Spanning the Gap
ϑ Use the on-line search engine at the top left of the web page
ϑ Search by topic under History & Culture or Nature & Science, or the Quick Index,
ϑ If you know the approximate date of a feature, you can browse the Quick Index, or
search by year under Features from Back Issues.

Receiving the printed edition of Spanning the Gap
The printed edition of Spanning the Gap is available free to those who visit the park or who correspond with the park requesting information, while supplies of each issue last.  Due to present budget concerns and the projected publication of the newsletter entirely on-line, names are no longer being added to the subscription list. To obtain the current copy of Spanning the Gap, please contact the park to request one, or download the Current Issue (pdf file)