Pike National Forest
Lizard Rock Trail #658

While most of the 2.3 miles of the Lizard Rock Trail are rated as easy, there's spots where the going gets steep and the trail is rated as more difficult. Lizard Rock is visited most often in the summer and fall.

Elevations:

• Trail beginning: 8,500'
• High Point: 9,500'
• Trail ending: 9,500'

Access: 3 miles down Tarryall Road, southeast of the Twin Eagles Trailhead, is the Spruce Grove Trailhead. The Lizard Rock Trail leaves the Spruce Grove Trailhead and travels north to meet the Hankins Pass Trail at the Lost Creek Wilderness boundary.

Notes: Park outside the campground at Spruce Grove (unless you're camping there). Hike through the campground, pass the outhouse and then cross Tarryall Creek on the bridge. Go left through a boulder tunnel and you're started on the Lizard Rock Trail.

As the trail approaches the wilderness boundary, it also approaches a rock formation that resembles a lizard, hence the name.

USGS Maps: McCurdy Mountain

Trail map