River Vale
River Vale is a township in Bergen County, in the U.S.
River Vale is a township in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. River Vale is the easternmost municipality in an area of the county referred to as the Pascack Valley. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 9,909. It was ranked #29 on the 100 Best Places to Live 2007 survey published by CNN/Money magazine.
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Worth seeing in and around River Vale
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pascack Brook County Park
Pascack Brook County Park, 137 acre county park, is located on Emerson Road in Westwood, New Jersey, about a mile east of Westwood and half a mile upstream from the mouth of Pascack Brook. From intersection of Old Hook Road and Emerson Road, travel north on Emerson Road - entrance is on the left.
2.9 km · park in New Jersey · Wikipedia - 02Frederick Haring House
The Frederick Haring House is located in Old Tappan, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983.
2.4 km · historic house in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia - 03Gerrit Haring House
Gerrit Haring House is a historic house at 224 Old Tappan Road in Old Tappan, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. This mid-eighteenth-century house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
1.7 km · historic house in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia - 04Haring-DeWolf House
The Haring–DeWolf House is located at 95 De Wolf Road in the borough of Old Tappan in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The historic stone house was documented as the Dewerk Peter Herring House by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936.
2.6 km · historic house in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia - 05Woodcliff Lake Reservoir
Woodcliff Lake is a reservoir in the New Jersey borough of Woodcliff Lake and portions of Hillsdale and Park Ridge, in Bergen County, United States. It was created circa 1903 by damming the Pascack Brook and is also fed by the Bear Brook which joins the Pascack at the reservoir.
3.1 km · reservoir in New Jersey, United States · Wikipedia - 06Wortendyke Barn
Wortendyke Barn, at 13 Pascack Road in Park Ridge, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1770 and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 2, 1972. The historic Dutch barn was restored by Bergen County in 1973.
3.6 km · historic barn in Park Ridge, New Jersey · Wikipedia
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Getting to River Vale
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 29 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 39 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 46 km
- Stations
- Montvale, 3.5 km · Woodcliff Lake, 3 km
- New York → River Vale31 km · quickest by road, 1h 4m · $3.5–4.5
- Hartford → River Vale140 km · quickest by road, 3h 9m · $14–19
- Philadelphia → River Vale151 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · $14–19
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for River Vale
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for River Vale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThere is also a walking path known as the “Doggy Path” that runs through six streets.
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Next door to River Vale
River Vale is 22 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.