Lover's Leap (Hannibal)
Missouri
A five-acre bluff-top city park south of downtown Hannibal with the kind of sweeping Mississippi view Mark Twain grew up staring at -- legend holds two star-crossed lovers from rival tribes jumped rather than be kept apart, giving the overlook its name and its ghost story.
Why Roamward picked it
Hannibal is a heavily-visited Great River Road anchor town almost entirely covered by Mark Twain historic-site content elsewhere -- Lover's Leap is the free scenic-overlook counterpart, a two-minute detour off MO-79 that adds a non-museum reason to stop.
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