Cliffs in the USA?

[winchesterpooja]

Hello!

This might seem slightly stupid, but can I get the names of some cliffs in the USA, which if you jump from you fall into a river? Basically, the ravine needs a water body you can swim across.

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[innerslytherin]

I was just in Knoxville, Tennessee, and took a river boat tour. There were definitely some cliffs there you could jump off and swim across the river--presuming you survived the jump. I'm not sure about the depth off Cherokee Bluffs, but that would be the first place I looked. They're probably at least 100 feet tall, and straight up over the river.

Google Map to that location

[winchesterpooja]

There is someone who doesn't survive this jump (it's done as an -either-die-at-their-hands-or-die-on-your-own kinda escape). Thanks :)

[road_rhythm]

Oh, hey, fun things to do in a river in Virginia! It's like you knew I was coming.

orange_fell's suggestion of Mather Gorge was one of the first that occurred to me, but while there are rocks at a suitable angle over the river there, I don't know how swimmable you'd want to call what's in between. The currents through the gorge are varied, fluctuating, and genuinely dangerous, and, yes, even if you're good you can get dead trying to swim them. The river is narrow there, but unpredictable.

Also, if this is for SPN fic (guessing by your handle/icon), the park is crowded year-round during the day and pretty well patrolled even at night, though it's easy enough to walk in when it's closed (especially from the north). A Winchester jumping into the Potomac at that point would attract a lot of attention doing it. And probably collide with a kayak halfway across.

Red Rock Overlook, approx. 20 miles upstream in Leesburg, would offer more privacy, and the river there actually is swimmable. It's not very deep, so if they jumped from the topmost point of

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[winchesterpooja]

Ahh, the website kept hiding your reply from me for some reason. And YES, it's SPN fanfic. :D I'm not worried about locals because the fic is kinda in this dystopian set-up where all the humans are clustered around ghettos around the country. And one of the TFW will not survive this jump (they jump together) so I love Mather Gorge for the terribly dangerous currents. ;)

And, wow, that's a lot of research! I did some location scouting too, but not for landmarks since I'm from a different country. But there are areas designed after actual places I've been to. :)

Thanks!

[road_rhythm]

Oh, well, if it doesn't need to be safe, then that opens up your options considerably. One advantage of Mather is that there's no shortage of reference pictures on the web. If you wanted one great, dramatic swoop, a running leap from the top of Red Rock would give you about a fifty foot clear drop. The river itself is tame there, but it'd be a coin toss whether you survived landing in the shallows (especially if you were to strike the large, flat rock right at the base).

[tabaqui]

The thing is, unless you're looking for some kind of 'tourist' thing, most places where people jump off cliffs into rivers are just...places locals hang

[winchesterpooja]

Wow, you seem to have had an awesome childhood. :D The only water body close to me is a pool, haha. And okay, I'll consider that, though we're pretty set on Mather Gorge for now. Thanks!

[beccastareyes]

How wide? I went to grad school in Ithaca, NY. The area had plenty of gorges around the local rivers and streams. You weren't supposed to jump off the cliffs into the water, but people did it. (Googling this is a bit tricky, because there were a spate of suicides-by-jumping around 2010, so those get mixed up with the recreational swimmers who do risky things that they expect to survive.)

Note that if you want something legal, this is not it.

(Google tells me the popular spots in Ithaca are on Six-Mile Creek near Second Dam. I recall people also using the bridge over Fall Creek near Beebe Lake.)

[winchesterpooja]

Nah, it's not legal. It's a suicidal thing, and one person doesn't make it. Thanks! :)