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Lizard Head

Distance
12.7 mi
Vertical
13,110 ft
Summit
12,119 ft
Difficulty
Very strenuous

Lizard Head is one of the most distinctive silhouettes in Colorado — a 400-foot vertical spire perched on a broad shoulder of crumbling tuff, rising to 13,119 feet above Lizard Head Pass in the San Juan Mountains. The spire is the eroded remnant of a volcanic ash flow of…

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About Lizard Head

Lizard Head is a mountain summit in the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,119-foot (3,999 m) is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness, 6.8 miles (11.0 km) west by south of the town of Ophir, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Juan National Forest and Dolores County from Uncompahgre National Forest and San Miguel County.

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The Lizard Head spire rising from its broad shoulder of tuff, with patchy snow and alpine meadow below.
U.S. National Weather Service · Public domain
Close view of the 400-foot tower, the eroded remnant of an Oligocene-age volcanic ash flow.
Jeffrey Beall · CC BY 4.0
Lizard Head's spire rising over scree slopes and dark fir stands in the San Juan Mountains.
Jemisonbiz · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lizard Head viewed from the trail along Black Face Mountain, with alpine forbs at the foreground.
Adam Baker · CC BY 2.0

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