Ramapo Explained

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

Places

New Jersey

• Ramapo Valley County Reservation, a Bergen County park
• Ramapo Mountain State Forest, in Bergen and Passaic Counties
  • Ramapo Lake
• Ramapo College of New Jersey, a public college in Mahwah

New York

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

New Jersey and New York

• Ramapo Mountains
• Ramapo River

Educational institutions

• Ramapo College, 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, in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania
• Ramapough Mountain Indians, or Ramapough Lenape Nation, a New Jersey state-recognized tribe
• , a United States Navy oiler in commission from 1919 to 1946