Lizard Head Peak Wind River
— — the tooth the range shows the sky.
Not only on a wall.
“A jagged twelve-thousand-foot summit in the southern Wind River Range of Wyoming, set in the Popo Agie Wilderness of the Shoshone National Forest. The peak rises in a narrow blade above a long alpine plateau, with no road within twenty miles. Most who reach it walk in from Worthen Meadow or over Lizard Head Pass. The light at altitude here comes hard and quiet, and the summit catches it last as the valley below has already turned blue. — from the studio
Lizard Head Peak Wind River, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Lizard Head Peak rises to 12,842 feet in the southern Wind River Range of west-central Wyoming, inside the Popo Agie Wilderness of the Shoshone National Forest. The summit is a narrow blade of Precambrian granite, separated from the main divide by Lizard Head Pass at about 11,800 feet. The peak sits roughly twenty trail miles west of Lander, the nearest town with services. The North Fork of the Popo Agie River drains the basin to the east through Three Forks Park.
At nearly 13,000 feet the air is thin enough that approaches from the trailhead at Worthen Meadow require two long days of walking with a heavy pack. Summer afternoons build thunderstorms over the divide; experienced parties summit early and clear the pass by noon. Snow lingers in the north-facing couloirs into August in most years. The pass and the long plateau north of it are above treeline, exposed, and have no reliable shelter for several miles in either direction.
Access is on foot only. The most common approach is the Bears Ears Trail from Dickinson Park or the trail from Worthen Meadow, both roughly twenty to twenty-five miles round trip to the pass with significant elevation gain. There are no permits required for day or overnight use in the Popo Agie Wilderness as of 2026, but standard Forest Service Leave No Trace and wildlife-storage rules apply. The nearest fuel and outfitters are in Lander, Wyoming, on US-287.