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[Kestrel]

For me, I'm usually done once I hit around 200 dwarfs.  By then, my new fortress layout (it's always a new layout) has been well implemented, and there's usually something substantial I don't like about it and have lost interest in.  My military's pretty stacked.  My artifacts depicting that time I threw a goblin down a hole are sitting in their obscure corners.  The caves have been breached and searched for greater challenges.  By this point, I'm ready to move on and try something different.

You?  And if you do continue past this point, what goals do you implement to keep you interested?

[billybobfred]

I don't abandon my fortresses. When I get bored, I generate a new world entirely, because "zomg waht if i want to go back???? D:"

[Kestrel]

Fair enough.  Actually, I do too.  Especially in more exotic embarks.

[MythagoWoods]

I wait until I've at an inevitable defeat and down to my last dwarf.  That way rather then getting decapitated by an angry goblin/beast/collossus while running around like a chicken I can image the dwarf went on a rampage and become the Hulk Hogan of dwarves, snapping the necks of goblins and trolls like a boss while sporting an awesome goatee while shouting "Ooooooh yeeeeeah!" before succumbing to his wounds.  You know, rather then "Herpa-a-derp, dead" that is usually how the last dwarf dies.

[Necro910]

I normally don't "abandon" my fortresses. I go and kill everyone. It's abandoning, but dwarfier!

Bridges and magma are often involved.

[Sarda]

Necro, no unclaimed artifact sock in the middle of a labyrinth over a pit to hell laden with weapon traps?

[LuckyLuigi]

I never abandon a fortress and I never savescum. So far I've always managed to destroy my own fortress in the end, by my own mistake or fate. My current fortress (with new highly effective modular approach) is resisting destruction successfully so far.
If the fortress won't die I'll start a new world but keep it stored in case I want to mess with it later.

[thatkid]

When I get bored I will fill the halls with cages that are full of hostiles I've captured during sieges, hook them up to a single lever, and have it pulled.
Or put everyone into a squad, and order them -all- to kill a liaison.
Or release a megabeast into the dining hall.
Or flood it with water or magma.
Or all of the above. Usually all of the above (though with water, not magma...in case I want to reclaim later).

[Icee77]

When my military becomes a bit too powerful. Once, one of my squads were able to kill a bronze colossus with no casualties.

[slink]

I don't abandon fortresses, not functionally.  Sometimes I abandon a copy of them so I can read the Legends or locate the fortress on the map, but I don't abandon the working copy.

Sometimes I start over if I make a stupid mistakes and it is early in the development.  I make an initial save, and that is what I return to.  My most often made mistake is forgetting to cancel DFReveal before unpausing the game.  I've been known to do that several times in a row if I am tired.

If I embark into a location that is deadly within RL minutes, that is kind of an automatic abandon.  I have played a few of those locations, but generally they are too difficult for my taste in play so I end up giving them up entirely.

Fortresses that become boring to me just get left alone while I start another.  More often than not, a version change makes the entire world obsolete and it gets left behind when I move on.  I don't mind because the new features are usually worth having to start a new world.
 
I never play in adventure mode, so starting multiple fortresses in a single world in a kind of parallel development doesn't bother me.  This will probably change if the game ever starts to take fortress history into account in fortress mode.
 

[ChairmanPoo]

FPS death

[MaximumZero]

When the dorf named after me dies. Then I abandon ship.

[ChairmanPoo]

I never name dwarves after me. Bad karma, given the usual fate of most of my dwarves.

[evileeyore]

When I get bored.  FPS Death.  If the whole fort gets whiped and it looks too difficult to reclaim.

[Kestrel]

So I take it there aren't a lot of reclaim/let's try some new things under new management attempts for these responses.

Personally, my fortress layout is everything to me.  I'm always trying to find some new and interesting configuration that's efficient, but also logical.  Finding different and more unique configurations leads to more abandons/new games than anything else.