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The Ramapo Valley County Reservation, also known as the Ramapo Reservation, is a 4,000 acres (16 km 2) 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 lies on the border of the Piedmont and Highlands geologic provinces.
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.
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.
Map of the Ramapo Fault System: Earthquake epicenter at Lebanon, NJ. Hopewell Fault (red) and Flemington Fault (light blue) join the Ramapo (yellow) fault near the quake epicenter.
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.
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 ...
They were identified as the Ramapoughs in the early 18th century with respect to their region of the Ramapo mountains, river and valley. They formalized their tribal structure in 1977 to preserve ...
Campgaw Mountain is the northernmost ridge of the volcanically formed Watchung Mountains, along the border of Franklin Lakes, Oakland, and Mahwah in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. Located almost entirely within the bounds of Campgaw Mountain Reservation , the mountain offers numerous outdoor recreational opportunities, including the ...