Sloatsburg is a village in the town of Ramapo in Rockland County, New York, United States.

Located east of Orange County, it is at the southern entrance to Harriman State Park.

The land that would become the village of Sloatsburg was part of the hunting grounds of the Minsi band of the Leni Lenape Indians, whose people occupied much of the mid-Atlantic area at the time of European encounter.

Wynant Van Gelder, an ethnic Dutch colonist, purchased the area from the Minsi in 1738.

When his daughter Marritge Van Deusen married Stephen Sloat, Isaac gave the couple the land in 1763.

They built a stone house on the property and operated a tavern, which was a regular stop on the New York-to-Albany stage route.

There he established Sloat's Tavern, which became a regular stop on the New York to Albany stage route.

Between 1836 and 1841, the Erie Railroad built a line through Sloatsburg, resulting in a major increase in the population and prosperity of the village.

After the Civil War, the village prospered until the great flood of 1903 destroyed most of the factories in the town.

During Prohibition, Sloatsburg's rural setting and proximity to New York City made it an attractive location for stills and bootlegging; the gangsters running the operations also occasionally used the local woods to dispose of bodies of those killed in the course of business.

Prior to construction of the New York State Thruway and the Palisades Parkway in the 1950s, Sloatsburg was cut in half by automobile traffic, which could back up for miles in the 1940s and 1950s on the Orange Turnpike.

Sloatsburg station provides Metro-North train service on the Port Jervis Line to Hoboken - where connecting PATH train service is available to New York and Jersey City - and to Secaucus, the connecting point to New York Penn Station and points in New Jersey.