The eponymous Lizard Head

The Lizard Head Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado. It contains 41,309 acres (167 km²) and is jointly managed by the Uncompahgre and San Juan National Forests. It is 10 miles (16 km) southwest of the town of Telluride and is named for a prominent rock formation that is said to look like a lizard's head. The area includes three prominent fourteeners: El Diente Peak (14,159 ft / 4316 m), Wilson Peak (14,246 ft / 4342 m), and Mt. Wilson (14,017 ft / 4272 m). The area includes the headwaters of the west fork of the Dolores River. The Wilderness Act protects spectacular scenery, such as in the Ansel Adams Wilderness A United States Wilderness Area within federal lands is set aside by the 1964 Wilderness Act as a nature preserve. ... This is the article on the state. ... For other meanings, see telluride (disambiguation). ... In mountaineering, a fourteener is a mountain that exceeds 14,000 feet (4,267. ... The Dolores River, a tributary of the Colorado, is shown highlighted on a map of the western United States The Dolores River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 250 mi (402 km) long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah. ...