Suicide Rock facts for kids

Suicide Rock from the Devil's Slide Trail

Suicide Rock - near Idyllwild in the San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, Southern California. The Granite rock formation is a rock climbing area in California.

Suicide Rock (once Suicide Peak) is a granite outcrop (7,510 feet (2,290 m)) near Idyllwild, California, which is popular with rock climbers. Over three hundred climbing routes have been described. It is located near Tahquitz Peak.

According to legend, the name of Suicide Rock comes from a story of a Native American princess and her lover who, after being ordered to separate, jumped off the rock. It is speculated that this story originated as a derivative of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona story, in an attempt to boost tourism to this area in the late 19th century.