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The Pascack Valley is the name for a region of
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, United States, contained within
Bergen County Bergen County is the List of counties in New Jersey, most populous County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New Jersey.Pascack Brook Pascack Brook is a tributary of the Hackensack River in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. History At least one late 18th-century map calls the brook "Great Pascack River." Its tributary Musquapsink Brook is shown as "Little Pascack Rive ...
. The region consists of eight municipalities: Montvale, Park Ridge, Woodcliff Lake, Hillsdale, Westwood, River Vale, Washington Township, and Emerson. The neighboring municipalities of Old Tappan and Oradell are sometimes considered to be part of the Pascack Valley, as both boroughs are included in the Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce.


Entities named after the valley

* Pascack Valley Regional High School District serving students from Hillsdale, Montvale, River Vale and Woodcliff Lake. It operates two schools: **
Pascack Valley High School Pascack Valley High School (PVHS) is a four-year comprehensive high school, comprehensive regional state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school located in Hillsdale, New Jersey, Hillsdale in Bergen County, New Jerse ...
, Hillsdale **
Pascack Hills High School Pascack Hills High School (PHHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school, one of two secondary schools serving students in ninth through twelfth grade as part of the Pascack Valley Regional High School District in Bergen County, in the ...
, Montvale *
Pascack Valley Line The Pascack Valley Line is a commuter rail line operated by the Hoboken Division of New Jersey Transit, in the U.S. states of New Jersey and New York. The line runs north from Hoboken Terminal, through Hudson and Bergen counties in New Jerse ...
, operated by
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, offers service to
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, and to New York City via the
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* Pascack Valley Hospital, former hospital in Westwood, now re-opened as the Hackensack University Medical Center at Pascack Valley * Hackensack University Medical Center at Pascack Valley, Westwood *
Pascack Valley Community Life
', weekly newspaper
Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce website

Pascack Historical Society
, Park Ridge


See also

* ''The Pascack Valley Line: A History of the New Jersey and New York Railroad''


References


External links



* ttps://archive.today/20010425032049/http://206.20.4.4/communities/pascack.htm Overview of Pascack Valley Towns
Pascack Valley Line History

Pascack Valley Regional High School District

Greater Pascack Valley Chamber of Commerce website

Pascack Historical Society
Geography of Bergen County, New Jersey Regions of New Jersey Valleys of New Jersey {{BergenCountyNJ-geo-stub