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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
Richard W
VerifiedJune 27, 2023 • Stayed at: 027, Loop: B
My wife and I stayed at Prospector a week ago and it was a wonderful experience.
The campground was very clean and easy to find.
The views around the reservoir were amazing, would definitely stay there again.
Jessica S
VerifiedJune 27, 2023 • Stayed at: 063, Loop: D
The camp ground was super noisy. We stayed 2 nights. The first night, someone was running their generator all night long. Isn't there a policy about that? Shouldn't the camp ground hosts enforce it? The second night, there was a party going on until 3am. Again, the camp host should ask folks to respect quiet hours. If you stay there, bring ear plugs otherwise it is impossible to sleep.
Lawrence Q
VerifiedJune 26, 2023 • Stayed at: 035, Loop: C
The campground and the facilities were AWESOME as always but unfortunately in 4 days time we had a total of 3 hours where it did not rain. I know there is nothing anyone can do to predict the weather but it did play a big factor.
Manuel R
VerifiedJune 25, 2023 • Stayed at: 028, Loop: C
Great family campsite
Tony S
VerifiedJune 25, 2023 • Stayed at: 069, Loop: D
Clean well maintained outhouses. Really nice campsites. No complaints at all.
zennia j
VerifiedJune 23, 2023 • Stayed at: 090, Loop: E
This campground is stunning. Prospector has a private and secluded feel and the scenery is breathtaking. The wild flowers were out in full glory. The facilities were clean and the camp ground was lovely.
Stephanie M
VerifiedJune 20, 2023 • Stayed at: 047, Loop: D
This is a wonderful campsite, nice views and very quiet. The camp hosts did an excellent job keeping everything cleaned daily.
William D
VerifiedJune 20, 2023 • Stayed at: 070, Loop: D
1) No campground map of the whole area is easily accessible while using website booking. A map of the roads, camping spots (back-in, pull-through handicapped), water sources, trash bins, toilets, and dump stations would be nice.
2) Some of the camping spots on the website that were shown as reserved were empty and shown to be available.
3) There was no apparent way to get use my Golden Age Passport discount.
4) A map of the nearest RV dump stations available in the area would be nice.
These are suggestions for improvements. This area is beautiful. WOW!
Janann R
VerifiedJune 16, 2023 • Stayed at: 102, Loop: E
Great campsite with beautiful mountain views; however some of the sites are short and most are not level they have a crown in the middle. We parked our 23' travel trailer and the site was just long enough, but had to park the truck right next to the camper tight fit.
Lisa H
VerifiedJune 14, 2023 • Stayed at: 062, Loop: D
Excellent campground! Hosts were awesome too. Lots of fun. Just wish it had a dumpstation.
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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