Bancroft is an unincorporated census-designated place in Portage County, Wisconsin, United States.

[1] It is included in the Stevens Point, Wisconsin Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Bancroft rests on Portage County Road W just to the east of Interstate 39 / U.S. Highway 51, at exit 143.

This Bluff has gone by many names (Lover's Leap, Hellfire Hill, High Rock, Gulliver's Stool) but is most commonly known as The Ledge.

At the top of The Ledge is an ichnite rock that has preserved traces of the passage of Climactichnites.