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That the Ramapough Mountain People of the Ramapough Mountains of Bergen and Passaic counties, descendants of the Iroquois and Algonquin nations, are hereby designated by the State of New Jersey as the Ramapough Indians. [8] The tribe asked its New Jersey Assembly member, W. Cary Edwards, to seek state recognition. After several months of ...
Ramapo Torne in Harriman State Park, part of the 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 900 to 1,200 feet (270 to 370 m) in New Jersey, and 900 to 1,400 feet (270 to 430 m) in New York.
Articles about people, places and things associated with the Ramapo Mountain and Valley region of New Jersey and New York. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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.
Sterling Forest State Park is a 22,180-acre (89.8 km 2) state park [5] located in the Ramapo Mountains in Orange County, New York. Established in 1998, it is among the larger additions to the New York state park system in the last 50 years. [3]
Ramapo Mountain State Forest is a 4,200-acre (17 km 2) state forest in Bergen and Passaic Counties in New Jersey. The park is operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry. The park offers hiking, hunting, canoeing, fishing (including ice fishing), cross-country skiing, horseback riding and mountain biking.
The majority of New Jersey's quakes occurred around this fault area. History: Friday's earthquake was the strongest in NJ since 1783. A look back at quake history. The Ramapo Fault system runs ...
A network of trails maintained by the New York - New Jersey Trail Conference surrounds the lake; some are multi-use trails, and may be used for hiking, horseback riding, mountain biking, cross country skiing or snowmobiling. A 7.5-mile (12.1 km) mountain bike loop, maintained by the Jersey Off Road Bicycling Association, is especially popular.