DeCamp Bus Lines was a bus company located in Montclair, New Jersey. It served Essex County and Passaic County with commuter routes and charter services. Until 2023, DeCamp also operated commuter line-run services to and from Manhattan. The company ceased operations on February 28, 2025.
History DeCamp was founded in 1870, starting out as a stage-coach company.
The company ran until February 28, 2025, when they ceased operations.
COVID-19 pandemic DeCamp suspended service on March 25, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New Jersey.
DeCamp resumed activities in June, but was again curtailed on August 7, 2020, due to low and unsustainable ridership.
In May 2021, DeCamp began to resume operations once again, starting with charter services. On June 14, 2021, commuter services also resumed on a limited weekday schedule.
On March 20, 2023, DeCamp announced it would cease operating its commuter services lines after April 7, citing unsustainably low ridership because many of their former customers were now working from home instead of commuting to Midtown Manhattan.
Former commuter routes There were no fixed stops other than terminals, buses could hail to board; riders could request a stop to exit. Local passengers within New Jersey were not transported on any line except for the 32. According to the company, it normally carried up to 7,000 passengers per day. However, these numbers dwindled after the COVID-19 pandemic.
While all lines were indefinitely and temporarily suspended at the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the 32 and 88 lines were never brought back after commuter services were reinstated. As such, these routes were unofficially discontinued since 2020, and permanently with the decision by DeCamp to drop the commuter routes. All other routes were brought back to some extent, and permanently discontinued in April 2023. Some of the routes were rebranded and operated under New Jersey Transit. Buses that NJ Transit owned were sent back.
RouteTerminal AViaTerminal B32(weekdays only)Port Authority Bus Terminal Paterson Plank RoadRidge RoadBelleville TurnpikeCentre StreetKingsland StreetNutleyKingsland Street and Darling Avenue33Port Authority Bus Terminal (full-time)Lower ManhattanWall Street (rush hour service inbound only)Passaic AvenueBroad Street or Grove StreetBloomfield AvenueW. Caldwell or MontclairEssex Mall44Port Authority Bus TerminalRidge RoadBelleville TurnpikeHeller Parkway/Franklin StreetBloomfieldFranklin Street and Montgomery Street66(C, MU, and R weekdays only)Route 3Valley RoadPark StreetMontclair State University (some trips)Harrison AvenueEagle Rock Avenue (R trips only)Prospect Avenue (R trips only)W. OrangeMississippi Loop (full-time)MontclairPark Street and Bloomfield Avenue OR Watchung Plaza (some trips)W. OrangeCrown View Apartments (CV trips only)W. CaldwellEssex Mall (R trips only)88(weekdays only)Broad StreetProspect StreetOrangeCentral Avenue andEvergreen Place OR Scotland Road99(rush hours only)Ridge Road/Kearny Avenue/Frank E. Rodgers BoulevardHarrisonRodgers Boulevard and Harrison Avenue
Map
References
External links DeCamp Bus Lines