Lover's Leap, or Lovers' Leap, is a name used for several places around the world. These locations are usually high and isolated, with a danger of falling to death or the chance of someone jumping intentionally. Stories about sad love tales are often connected to these places.

List of locations

• Bluff Park, Hoover, Alabama
• Lovers Leap, DeSoto Caverns, Childersburg, Alabama
• Lovers' Leap, Tombigbee River Mile 96, Jackson, Alabama
• Noccalula Falls Park, Gadsden, Alabama
• Lovers Leap, Green Forest, Arkansas
• Lovers' Leap, Greenwood, Arkansas
• Lovers Leap, Levesque, Arkansas
• Lovers Leap, Knights Ferry, California, next to California Highway 120
• Lover's Leap, Lake Tahoe, California
• Quincy, California, off Buck's Lake Road
• Vail, Colorado, name of a run on Blue Sky Basin
• Lovers' Leap Bridge and State Park, New Milford, Connecticut
• Lover's Leap, Yonah Mountain, Georgia
• Rock City, a roadside attraction in Lookout Mountain, Georgia

• Two Lovers Point (Puntan dos Amantes), Dededo, Guam
• Spirit Lake, Idaho
• Lover's Leap Pere Marquette State Park, Grafton, Illinois
• Lover's Leap, Franklin Creek State Natural Area, Franklin Grove, Illinois
• Starved Rock State Park, Illinois
• Lover's Leap, Carrsville, Kentucky
• Lover's Leap, Mammoth Cave National Park, Edmonson, Hart, and Barren counties, Kentucky
• Lovers' Leap, Natural Bridge State Resort Park, Slade, Kentucky
• Lovers' Leap, Bangor, Maine
• Cumberland Narrows, Maryland
• Purgatory Chasm State Reservation, Massachusetts
• Lover's Leap, Hannibal, Missouri
• Lover's Leap, The Palisades, Weehawken, New Jersey
• Philmont Scout Ranch, outside Cimarron, New Mexico
• Blowing Rock, North Carolina
• Lover's Leap, Hot Springs, North Carolina
• Lover's Leap, located along Oklahoma State Highway 10 and the Illinois River in Tahlequah, Oklahoma
• Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania
• Lover's Leap Trail, in Custer State Park, Custer, South Dakota
• Lovers' Leap, in Cameron Park, Waco, Texas
• Lovers' Leap, in Lynn, Massachusetts
• Lovers' Leap, in Washington County, Utah
• Lovers' Leap in Patrick County, Virginia, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Stuart on U.S. Highway 58
• Natural Tunnel State Park, Duffield, Virginia
• Lovers' Leap, Turn Point, Stuart Island, Washington
• Lovers' Leap Hawks Nest State Park, Fayette, West Virginia
• Maiden Rock, Wisconsin
• Whitetop Mountain, Washington County, Virginia

• Fonte dos Amores, Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Elora Gorge, Elora, Ontario, Canada
• La piedra feliz, Valparaíso, Chile
• Đulin Ponor, Ogulin, Croatia
• Green Valley View (also called Suicide Point), Kodaikanal, India
• Lovers' Leap Rock, Dargle Valley, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland
• Lovers' Leap / Diarmuid and Gráinne's Rock, Loop Head, County Clare, Ireland
• Salto degli Sposi (Spouses' Jump), Presolana Pass, on the border between the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia, Italy. In 1871, a young couple of Polish artists, musician Maximilian Prihoda and painter Anna Stareat, moved to the area. For unknown reasons, one day, they spent the afternoon on the rock, where Prihoda composed his last melody and Stareat painted her last landscape, and then jumped into the gorge below.
• Lovers' Leap, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica
• Lovers Leap, Otago Peninsula, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Lovers' Rock (la Peña de los Enamorados), Antequera, Andalusia, Spain
• Lovers' Leap, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
• Lovers' Leap, Blaise Castle Estate, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
• Lovers' Leap, Dovedale, Peak District, England, United Kingdom
• Albion Falls, Hamilton, Ontario

Legends

The Lovers' Leap at Hawks Nest State Park in Ansted, West Virginia, along the historic Midland Trail, drops 585 feet (178 meters) from a high cliff overlooking the New River Gorge. The area was named "Lovers' Leap" by settlers and has a story about two young Native Americans from different tribes. A similar story about Native Americans is found at Lookout Mountain, Georgia.

Blowing Rock Mountain, near Blowing Rock, North Carolina, has a similar tale. In this version, a young lover jumps from a cliff but is saved by the wind, which carries him back to his sweetheart.

Wills Mountain has a Lovers' Leap overlooking Cumberland Narrows on the west side of Cumberland, Maryland. It is 1,652 feet (504 meters) above sea level and has unusual square-shaped rock formations from the top down to the National Road (U.S. Route 40) below. From this spot, the city of Cumberland and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia can be seen.

In Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain writes about fifty Lover's Leaps along the Mississippi River where disappointed Indian girls are said to have jumped. One such story involves Princess Winona, the daughter of a Dakota chief, who jumps to her death rather than marry a man she does not love. Maiden Rock, Wisconsin, is one place linked to this legend, along with locations like Winona Falls in Pennsylvania, Camden County, Missouri, and Cameron Park in Waco, Texas.

In the Peak District of the United Kingdom, Dovedale has a limestone cliff called Lovers' Leap, which is reached by steps built by Italian prisoners of war during World War II. A local story says a young woman believed her lover died in the Napoleonic Wars, so she jumped from the cliff. Later, her family learned her lover was alive.

On the south coast of Jamaica in Saint Elizabeth Parish, there is a Lovers' Leap 1,700 feet (520 meters) above the Caribbean Sea. The name comes from two enslaved lovers, Mizzy and Tunkey, from the 18th century. Their master, Chardley, wanted Mizzy for himself and had Tunkey sold to another estate. Mizzy and Tunkey fled but were chased to a cliff. To avoid being separated, they jumped together. Their story inspired a romantic novel.