Most of the sites are at least a 50-100 yard walk from the parking spot so be prepared to carry your gear. During the week is substantially less busy. If you want a spot for the weekend, show up as early as possible on Friday. Here’s an overview of the campground basics: Fee per night While this is technically not allowed, we’ve never heard of anyone getting in trouble. There are also day-use parking spots which a lot of people end up parking in and just sleeping in their cars. Get there early or prepare to make friends who you can share a site with. And with only 21 sites, it fills up quickly on weekends. They don’t take reservations-it’s first come, first served. RELATED: Guide to Yosemite Valley: Everything You Need to Know Camping at Lover’s Leap Photo Credit: Ryan Tuttle Photographyĭepending on snowfall, Lovers Leap Campground is usually open from mid-May to November. And our Lovers Leap climbing guide covers everything you need to know. We’ve stayed there for over a week and not once moved our car. Possibly the best thing about Lover’s Leap: everything is within walking distance from the campground-whether it’s climbing, food, groceries, supplies (climbing and camping), a shower, or a beer. Photo Credit: Ryan Tuttle Photography Something for everyone
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Royal Robbins in his 1976 Tahoe Guide said, “With the lone exception of Tahquitz Rock, Lover’s Leap has the best selection of concentrated free climbs in California…No one cliff even in Yosemite has Lover’s Leap concentration…with such quality and variety.” If a high concentration of easy and moderate trad routes sounds good, than this Lovers Leap climbing guide is for you. The hundreds of vertical cracks are crossed by even more horizontal dikes, turning really difficult routes into fun and challenging routes at mostly moderate grades. But for climbers, those same vertical granite cliffs, nearing 600 feet high at some points, are a trad climbing paradise. There’s more, of course, but why not come by and see for yourself?įrom Treasure Beach, about 20-minute drive in the direction of Mandeville.Located just off of Highway 50 in the mountain town of Strawberry, Lover’s Leap, for most people, is a large granite cliff you might notice from the highway on your way up to Lake Tahoe. Not to mention, cold Red Stripe and rum drinks served at the bar. Expect a menu filled with Jamaican faves, like: Fish Tea and Codfish fritters, Conch, Chicken, Oxtail, Bammy and Festival. Dinner is a la carte, and rather than menus (which might blow away in the strong breeze) dishes are listed on a blackboard over the large, wood, wrap around bar.
The food at Lovers Leap is as local as the crowd that gathers. The party starts in the late afternoon, when it’s still light, and continues through the magical sunset hour and on into an evening of live music - each week, a different act - and dancing. But it’s Sunday nights at Lovers Leap that have become the real draw. Sure, visitors still come by at all times to gaze at the view that is, by all counts, the most stunning on the island. Last year, Jason Henzell took over the lease for the building that stands on the property and the once-lonely spot has now become a local hot spot. From the top of the cliff, it seems like you can see forever, so it’s no surprise that Jamaica’s Port Authority chose this as the site, 1700 feet above sea level, to build a lighthouse - making it the highest lighthouse in the Western Hemisphere. The myth and mystery of this place gives way to the practicalities of modern engineering at the property’s Lighthouse. Hand in hand they stood in this net, as the the moon set slowly below the sea. Legend has it, the lovers raced to the edge of this cliff - with a drop of approximately 1,700 feet-the moon caught them in a golden net. Any stories have been told about the star-crossed lovers who, rather than be taken from each other by a jealous plantation owner, chose instead to run away together.
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