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2026 Season availability
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- Potable Water
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Reviews (547)
What Guests Are Saying
Prospector campground offers stunning views, clean facilities, and friendly hosts, making it a highly recommended destination for camping, biking, and hiking. While some campers noted issues like limited water availability and noise from neighbors, many appreciated the well-maintained bathrooms and spacious sites. Overall, visitors enjoyed their experiences and expressed a desire to return, highlighting the campground's beautiful location and recreational opportunities.
What Guests Are Saying
Prospector campground offers stunning views, clean facilities, and friendly hosts, making it a highly recommended destination for camping, biking, and hiking. While some campers noted issues like limited water availability and noise from neighbors, many appreciated the well-maintained bathrooms and spacious sites. Overall, visitors enjoyed their experiences and expressed a desire to return, highlighting the campground's beautiful location and recreational opportunities.
Review Summary
Michelle N
VerifiedJuly 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 070, Loop: D
Great place for group camping! We get 2 to 3 sites in a row or zig-zag across the road and it makes a great gathering place. Quick trips to Dillon, Frisco, or Breck give it extra activities. Walk to the lake or drive around to multiple put ins for paddle boarding. Sites vary, but many are in young trees, and quite a few large sites too. Pull through and back in make it work for all size campers. Bike trails too. Firewood wasn't available our last trip, but usually the host has it. Bathrooms needed some love this trip as well.
Katrina S
VerifiedJuly 13, 2025 • Stayed at: 100, Loop: E
Beautiful views. Clean campsites. Forest area that the kids loved to explore. 15 minute walk to the beach. Campsites are nicely spaced for some privacy. Would definitely stay here again. Stayed in site 102.
Sierra E
VerifiedJuly 10, 2025 • Stayed at: 091, Loop: E
Campground is stunning with access to the lake and trails you can hike or mountain bike. Downside about this campsite specifically is it’s quite open, close to entrance so a bit “on display” and it was a struggle to find a flat spot for a tent. I’d recommend loop D or part of Loop E that is closer to the lake.
Anne W
VerifiedJuly 10, 2025 • Stayed at: 103, Loop: E
Beautiful setting, spacious sites, and campers are well be behaved and quiet.
Andrew C
VerifiedJuly 10, 2025 • Stayed at: 087, Loop: E
Very well laid out. Plenty of space in between lots. Loved the peacefulness.
Jacqueline L
VerifiedJuly 6, 2025 • Stayed at: 060, Loop: D
Love the camp site, well spaced sites, beautiful views, the only negative is the dust, the roads are really bad in and out of campsite and around the loops, peopke should be aware when driving that driving slower keeps the dust down.
Amber K
VerifiedJuly 6, 2025 • Stayed at: 097, Loop: E
Always enjoy our time here. Great for families, amenities are well maintained, easy hike to lake front, pizza 10 minutes away should dinner not work out. We come back every year!
James S
VerifiedJuly 4, 2025 • Stayed at: 058, Loop: D
Great campsite cleanliness. Big campsites.
Ken K
VerifiedJuly 1, 2025 • Stayed at: 042, Loop: C
Be prepared to drive the wrong way in order to back into your spots.
Walter V
VerifiedJuly 1, 2025 • Stayed at: 071, Loop: D
Great place for camping!!!
It has no easy access to the lake if you’re planning kayak or boating. But still can enjoy the lake activities for no more than a 5 minutes drive.
Location & Directions for Prospector
Dillon Ranger District 680 Blue River Parkway, Silverthorne, CO 80498 United States
Elevation: 2,803 ft
Getting There
From I-70, take the Silverthorne exit 205. Travel east on Highway 6,
approximately 4 mi to Swan Mountain Road. Turn right and travel for 2 mi to Prospector and Windy Point Campground sign. Take dirt road 1 mi to campground entrance.
Highway access
Access to Prospector Campground is via I-70, with the Silverthorne exit 205 leading to Highway 6, which is approximately 4 miles from the campground.
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
11AM
General
- Please Note: One RV with tow per single site or one vehicle per tent site. Most sites can accommodate 1 extra vehicle that is not included with the reservation fee. Extra vehicle will be charged a per night fee and collected at the campground.
- Body contact with reservoir prohibited; no swimming, water skiing, jetskiing, or scuba diving in the lake
- Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment, and tires before using lake or trails
- Reserved Sites will be held until check out time (ELEVEN) the day following your arrival date. Sites must be occupied by the checkout time of that following day to hold a reservation or the site will be forfeited and released to other guests.Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
- Fire Restrictions: Fire restrictions may be imposed at any time due to hot, dry weather conditions, at which time campfires and charcoal fires may not be allowed.
- Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing organisms by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
- Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
- Click here for more information about White River National Forest
- Campers must occupy the site the first night at a campsite. This prevents booking the site for Fri-Sun and showing up on Saturday.
- Campers may leave the site for 24 hours and must occupy the site otherwise. This allows a camper to say go for an overnight backpack trip in the woods for one night and come back to their campsite the next day.
- It is imperative that you are clear from the site at 11:00am on your check out day so the host can come prepare the site for the next event. Please don't be the group that makes the incoming group have to wait.
- Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or [email protected]
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Last updated: October 17, 2026
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