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 The Ramapo Indian Hills Regional High School District is a comprehensive regional public school district consisting of two four-year public high schools serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Wyckoff ...

, 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 *