For our first Denver w.e. trip hike, Jim picked Lizard Rock trail in the Lost Creek Wilderness about an hour's drive from Colorado Springs. Our challenge was finding the trailhead. We missed the turn off to the Spruce Grove Campground (on Country Road 77 off US 24) and waisted about an hour retracing our steps, asking for directions, and finally finding the campground.
The hike started with a rock tunnel and then led to open meadows flanked by
weird rock formations.
After about two miles the grade becames steeper. The trail came to a fork, with the right fork leading to Hankins Pass and Lake Park, a 15-mile fool loop. We took the left fork, up to Lizard Rock,
and were rewarded by great, not quite 360-degrees, views of the Lost Creek Wilderness with the Sawatch Range to the west.
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