Prairie Point Campground (CO)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $21From, per site
- Sites
- 22All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Prairie Point Campground is located north of Silverthorne, near the upper end of Green Mountain Reservoir along its east side. The reservoir is located 15 miles north of Silverthorne along Hwy 9 and has views of the Williams Fork and Gore mountain ranges. Keep reading
Recreation
In addition to boating, there are a variety of activities including camping, fishing, picnicking, jet skiing, water skiing, swimming and hiking.
Facilities
There are 2 loops with vault toilets. Each site has a picnic table and fire ring with most having parking spaces in front of the walk-in site. A few parking spaces are long enough to accommodate small trailers.
Natural Features
In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, the 2.3-million-acre White River National Forest is a place of serenity and adventure, boasting eight wilderness areas, four defined seasons and ten peaks surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation. The White River National Forest was established in 1891 as the White River Plateau Timber Reserve; the second such reserve to be named in the United States. In 1905, the newly formed Forest Service was given authority of the reserve. Long before this designation, the area was home to the Ute Indians who followed herds of elk and bison on their seasonal migrations. Wildlife in the area abounds. Bighorn sheep navigate rocky ridges and bull elk bugle at dusk. Scenic rivers sustain populations of cutthroat, rainbow and brown trout. Alpine regions provide habitat for pika and ptarmigan. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Charges & Cancellations
Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.
What the agency tells you
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.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
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.
White River National Forest for more information
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.
Check in time is 2:00pm and Check out time is 11:00am 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 Help.WhiteRiver.Dillon@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Facilities There are 2 loops with vault toilets. Each site has a picnic table and fire ring with…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $21 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Once your reservation start date has begun, neither the Recreation.gov Contact Center nor the campground manager will be able to modify your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 22 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 22 of the 22 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Prarie Point | 001 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 151 ft | 155 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 002 | standard nonelectric | 17 ft | 144 ft | 144 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 003 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 132 ft | 131 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 004 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 124 ft | 120 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 005 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 116 ft | 117 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 006 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 107 ft | 121 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 007 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 113 ft | 116 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 008 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 126 ft | 111 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 009 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 337 ft | 447 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 010 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 316 ft | 464 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 011 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 265 ft | 507 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 012 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 291 ft | 642 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 013 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 277 ft | 686 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 014 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 277 ft | 728 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 015 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 169 ft | 849 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 016 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 186 ft | 897 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 017 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 211 ft | 954 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 018 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 212 ft | 1,019 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 019 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 214 ft | 1,025 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 020 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 215 ft | 1,032 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 021 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 209 ft | 1,041 ft | $21 |
| Prarie Point | 022 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 222 ft | 1,044 ft | $21 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cow Creek South3.5 miCataract Creek CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 4.0 mi
Cow Creek North (CO)White River National Forest · 4.1 mi
Willows Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 5.2 mi
Elliott Creek Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 5.4 miFrom I-70 take Exit 205, Silverthorne/Dillon, and travel north on HWY 9 for 17 miles. The campground will be on your left along Green Mountain Reservoir.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Heeney, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 25°F, day 57°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 0°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Prairie Point Campground (CO) is in Colorado’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Joe Neguse (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →