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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
Cheryl P
VerifiedJuly 20, 2021 • 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!
matt H
VerifiedJuly 19, 2021 • 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!
ELVIRA L
VerifiedJuly 19, 2021 • 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.
Chris T
VerifiedJuly 17, 2021 • 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 • Stayed at: 089, Loop: E
Beautiful scenery and a beautiful campground.
JOHN H
VerifiedJuly 11, 2021 • 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.
Michael A
VerifiedJuly 10, 2021 • Stayed at: 106, Loop: E
All bathrooms clean, no bad smell, the host team excellent, polite, courteous, go out of there way to WANT to be helpful. Husband wife team such nice folks and gentleman in B loop just great.
Alan M
VerifiedJuly 10, 2021 • Stayed at: 101, Loop: E
Site was nice however, people did not pay attention to the quiet hours as we had groups partying until 1-2 in the morning. Loud musical, dogs running unleashed, camp fires and loud talking to the point of fights
Judy K
VerifiedJuly 7, 2021 • Stayed at: 107, Loop: E
Nice big sites, clean vault toilets and friendly camp hosts! Beautiful views of mountains, Dillon Lake and magnificent sunsets.
Linda S
VerifiedJuly 7, 2021 • Stayed at: 073, Loop: D
The sight was clean. Host was friendly. The sight was too small. People tent camping were in pull through spots that would better serve campers. Perhaps reserve pull through and larger sites for “RV” camping
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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