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 (, , or Lenape , del, Lënapeyok) also called the Leni Lenape, Lenni Lenape and Delaware people, are an indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory includ ...

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 Lake is a 120-acre man-made lake in Ramapo Mountain State Forest in Northern New Jersey North Jersey comprises the northern portions of the U.S. state of New Jersey between the upper Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean. The designatio ...

New York

* Ramapo, New York, a town in Rockland County *

Ramapo Central School District Suffern Central School District, formerly the Ramapo Central School District, is a school district headquartered in Hillburn, a village in the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States located north of Suffern; east of Orange ...

, serves the village of Suffern, and surrounding areas in the town of Ramapo *

Ramapo High School (New York) Ramapo High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school in the East Ramapo Central School District, serving 9th to 12th grade students. It is located at 400 Viola Road in Ramapo, New York in Rockland County. Ramapo High School has on ...

, 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

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Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo ''Golden v. Planning Board of Ramapo'' was a landmark 1971 land-use planning case in New York that established growth management planning as a valid exercise of the police power in the United States. Background The Town of Ramapo, New York pas ...

'', a 1971 land use planning case *

Hotel Ramapo The Hotel Ramapo, now known as Taft Hotel, was previously known as Nortonia Hotel, Danmoore Hotel, and (erroneously) Franklin Hotel. It is a historic residential hotel in Portland, Oregon, United States. Built in 1906, it is listed on the N ...

, now called Taft Hotel, a historic residential hotel in Portland, Oregon *