About Prospector
Number of accommodations: 103
Campground Amenities
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Potable Water
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2026 Season availability
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Reviews (448)
What Guests Are Saying
Prospector Campground offers spacious sites with beautiful mountain views and close proximity to Lake Dillon, making it a popular choice for campers. Visitors appreciate the clean facilities, helpful camp hosts, and numerous nearby recreational activities like hiking and kayaking. However, some reviews mention challenges such as a lack of potable water, limited shade, and issues with road access and campsite maintenance.
What Guests Are Saying
Prospector Campground offers spacious sites with beautiful mountain views and close proximity to Lake Dillon, making it a popular choice for campers. Visitors appreciate the clean facilities, helpful camp hosts, and numerous nearby recreational activities like hiking and kayaking. However, some reviews mention challenges such as a lack of potable water, limited shade, and issues with road access and campsite maintenance.
Review Summary
Dianna N
VerifiedJuly 24, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 075, Loop: D
Dmitry L
VerifiedJuly 23, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 048, Loop: D
The location is perfect. On the shore of Dillon Reservoir in the White Water National Forest. Direct access to the lake for any water activities. The camp is situated off of Swan Mountain Road that connects Keystone and Breckenridge allowing for easy access to these destinations as well as Silverthorne and Dillon for shopping, dining activities, concert events held in Dillon Marina and, say more prosaic things like laundromats or showers ($5 at Silverthorne Rec. Center). There is a bike path looping around Dillon Reservoir and from Breckenridge to Frisco. A lot of hiking trails in the area.
Campsite has well maintained vault toilets. Some tap water. No provision for washing dishes. Sites is large and depending on a site are more or less isolated from each other by some young pine trees. Ground is clean, sandy and does not get muddy when it rains.
Due to altitude the nights could be quite cold. We experienced temps dropping below freezing in mid July. Weather can be unpredictable and subject to abrupt changes.
Robert J
VerifiedJuly 23, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 024, Loop: B
Beautiful site. Nice to have electric and water.
Cheryl P
VerifiedJuly 20, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 070, Loop: D
Sites are very nicely laid out, not right on top of each other. Bathrooms spotless and clean smelling. Nice little trails to the lake. Host was very friendly and had firewood for sale, and also enforced quiet hours when people pushed their luck with loud music and shouting (much appreciated!). Bear proof dumpsters and potable spigots. Couldn't ask for a better experience on a Saturday night in July!
Kailey D
VerifiedJuly 20, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 104, Loop: E
This campground is absolutely beautiful. Surrounded by high peaks and right on the reservoir. My only complaint would be that I got an email before my reservation stating that the potable water was still usable by everyone except for RV fill-ups, but to my surprise when I showed up, they had locked all water pumps. I never received an email warning me there wouldn't be any water. Luckily I brought some of my own water and ended up having enough to last, but it was still annoying to rely on something that the campground later took away without notifying me in advance. But this isn't even worth taking away a star for, since everything else was amazing. Even the bathrooms were sooo clean and didn't smell.
ELVIRA L
VerifiedJuly 19, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 057, Loop: D
I should say "this place is terrible, DO not go there!!! Like that we can find a spot always...But I believe in karma, and it is not nice to lie. The palce is gorgeous, the views amazing, stunning morning runs, and beautiful sunsets. Close to awesome mountain bike trails. Enough space between camp sites. Chris, the camp host is just perfect. And the bathrooms are the cleanest bathrooms in USA. But remember, if you are camping, or glamping, depend of your vehicle or tent, there are no showers, neither water or electric hookups; which makes it more magical and free.
matt H
VerifiedJuly 19, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 057, Loop: D
We love this campground. Right back the lake, lots of hiking and beautiful mornings. On our list of places to go back to at least 2x a year. Great place to be in the fall when the aspen turn!
Chris T
VerifiedJuly 17, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 003, Loop: A
If you want to listen to multiple groups of people partying all day and all night while the campground host not only does NOTHING to quiet people after quiet hours but also verbally assaults you when you ask him to, this is the campground for you! Seriously, this campground is horrible.
Jana J
VerifiedJuly 16, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 089, Loop: E
Beautiful scenery and a beautiful campground.
JOHN H
VerifiedJuly 11, 2021 β’ Stayed at: 085, Loop: E
More trees than advertised. Sites generally spaced out. Use site map and Google Earth for site selection research. Contractor hosts were a professional pair That kept bookkeeping updated in the bathrooms is clean.
Location Prospector
Address:
Dillon Ranger District 680 Blue River Parkway
Silverthorne, CO, 80498
United States
From I-70, take the Silverthorne exit 205. Travel east on Highway 6,
approximately 4 miles to Swan Mountain Road. Turn right and travel for 2
miles to Prospector and Windy Point Campground sign. Take dirt road 1
mile to campground entrance.
Latitude & Longitude: 39.5958 / -106.034
Elevation: 2803 feet
Policies & Rules
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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. |
| General |
Body contact with reservoir prohibited; no swimming, water skiing, jetskiing, or scuba diving in the lake |
| General |
Prevent the spread of invasive species by inspecting and cleaning packs, equipment, and tires before using lake or trails |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only. |
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Click here for more information about White River National Forest |
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Campers must occupy the site the first night at a campsite. This prevents booking the site for Fri-Sun and showing up on Saturday. |
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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. |
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Check in time is 2:00pm and Check out time is 11:00amIt 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. |
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Customer Service Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.WhiteRiver.Dillon@AmericanLL.com |
