Ramapo (occasionally spelled Ramapough) is the name of several places and institutions in northern New Jersey and southeastern New York State. They were named after the Ramapough, a band of the

Lenape Indians The Lenape (, , ; ), also called the Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. The Lenape's historica ...

who migrated into the area from Connecticut by the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Places

New Jersey

Ramapo Valley County Reservation The Ramapo Valley County Reservation, also known as the Ramapo Reservation, is a county park located in Mahwah, New Jersey in Bergen County, bordering Ringwood State Park to the north and the Ramapo Mountain State Forest to the south. The park l ...

, a Bergen County park *

Ramapo Mountain State Forest Ramapo Mountain State Forest is a state forest in Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen and Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic Counties in New Jersey. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. The par ...

, in Bergen and Passaic Counties ** Ramapo Lake * Ramapo College of New Jersey, a public college in Mahwah

New York

Ramapo, New York Ramapo is a Administrative divisions of New York (state)#Town, town in Rockland County, New York, United States. It was originally formed as New Hampstead, in 1791, and became Ramapo in 1828."Ramapo", in Peter R. Eisenstadt and Laura-Eve M ...

, a town in Rockland County * Ramapo Central School District, serves the village of Suffern, and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo * Ramapo High School (New York), in Ramapo *

East Ramapo Central School District East Ramapo Central School District is a school district in Ramapo, New York, United States. It is headquartered in the Senator Eugene Levy Dr. Jack R. Anderson Education Center. History 20th century On March 4, 1952, seven school districts m ...

, serves the village of Spring Valley and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo

New Jersey and New York

Ramapo Mountains The Ramapo Mountains are a forested chain of the Appalachian Mountains in northeastern New Jersey and southeastern New York, in the United States. They range in height from in New Jersey, and in New York. Several parks and forest preserves e ...

Ramapo River The Ramapo River is a tributary of the Pompton River, approximately 30 mi (48 km) long, in southern New York (state), New York and northern New Jersey in the United States.Vecchioli, John, and E. G. Miller. Water Resources of the New J ...

Educational institutions

Ramapo College Ramapo College of New Jersey (RCNJ) is a Public university, public liberal arts college in Mahwah, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. As of the fall 2021 semester, there were a total of 5,732 students enro ...

, in Mahwah, New Jersey, United States * Ramapo High School (New Jersey), in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, United States * Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States

Other uses

* '' Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo'', a 1971 land use planning case * Hotel Ramapo, now called Taft Hotel, a historic residential hotel in Portland, Oregon *

Ramapo Fault The Ramapo Fault zone is a system of Fault (geology), faults between the northern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont areas to the east. Magma was able to seep through linear fractures along the fault during the late Triassic and early Jurassic, pr ...

, in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania *

Ramapough Mountain Indians The Ramapough Mountain Indians (also spelled Ramapo), known also as the Ramapough Lenape Nation or Ramapough Lunaape Munsee Delaware Nation or Ramapo Mountain people, are a New Jersey state-recognized tribe based in Mahwah. They have approximat ...