We report on near-infrared (IR) interferometric observations of the double-lined pre-main sequence (PMS) binary system DQ Tau. We model these data with a visual orbit for DQ Tau supported by the spectroscopic orbit & analysis of citet{Mathieu1997}. Further, DQ Tau exhibits significant near-IR excess; modeling our data requires inclusion of near-IR light from an excess source. Remarkably the excess source is resolved in our data, similar in scale to the binary itself ($sim$ 0.2 AU at apastron), rather than the larger circumbinary disk ($sim$ 0.4 AU radius). Our observations support the citet{Mathieu1997} and citet{Carr2001} inference of significant warm material near the DQ Tau binary.
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