Prospector
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $27From, per site
- Sites
- 106All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
At an elevation of 9,000 feet, Prospector Campground is in the heart of Summit County in the White River National Forest. The sites offer open views to Dillon Reservoir and several mountain ranges, an ideal setting for guests seeking recreation and relaxation. Due to the pine beetle infestation and removal of hazard trees, there is little or no shade in the campground. Keep reading
Recreation
Dillon Reservoir, often referred to as Lake Dillon, is the greatest draw to this campground. At 3,233 acres and 26.8 miles of shoreline, Dillon Reservoir is an ideal spot for fishing, boating, and sailing. The reservoir supports a healthy population of rainbow trout and brown trout. Occasionally, a few cutthroat trout make their way into the lake from feeder streams. Opportunities for hiking and biking include more than 7 paved miles of the 50-mile Summit County trail system. From the reservoir, the Old Dillon Reservoir trail is a favorite. This short, easy trail has spectacular views of the Tenmile Range and the Continental Divide. The Old Dillon Reservoir was built in the 1930s to supply water to the original town of Dillon, which is now covered by the new Dillon Reservoir. For those wanting a bit more solitude, hiking in the Ptarmigan Wilderness area is a wonderful escape from the crowds.
Facilities
Prospector Campground has 105 sites, able to accommodate tents, trailers, and RVs. Roads and spurs are not paved. The campground is equipped with picnic tables, campfire rings, vault toilets, and drinking water. No electrical hook-ups are available. Firewood is for sale from hosts at the campground. Boat ramp access is available in the marinas located in the nearby towns of Frisco and Dillon.
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 8 wilderness areas, 4 defined seasons, and 10 peaks surpassing 14,000 feet in elevation. 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. These species, along with many others, depend on surrounding undeveloped wilderness, clean streams, and diverse forests to live. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Nearby Attractions
Arapahoe Basin, Keystone, Breckenridge, and Copper Mountain ski resorts are all located within 10 miles from Dillon Reservoir. These resorts stay open year round.
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.
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
Everything else this campground posts · 9
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.
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
- 106
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 70 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables, campfire rings, vault toilets, and drinking water. No electrical hook-ups are…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campfire rings, vault toilets, and drinking water. No electrical hook-ups are available. Firewood is…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 470th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 14 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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $27 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
107 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 104 mapped sitesAll 107 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 105 of the 107 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. 105 of the 107 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 83 ft | 1,796 ft | 168 ft | $27 |
| A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 74 ft | 1,849 ft | 109 ft | $27 |
| A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 91 ft | 1,802 ft | 150 ft | $27 |
| A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 98 ft | 1,692 ft | 201 ft | $27 |
| A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 130 ft | 1,764 ft | 294 ft | $27 |
| A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 108 ft | 1,885 ft | 252 ft | $27 |
| A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 1,954 ft | 208 ft | $27 |
| A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 85 ft | 1,886 ft | 128 ft | $27 |
| A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 1,959 ft | 147 ft | $27 |
| A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 1,922 ft | 141 ft | $27 |
| A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 83 ft | 1,878 ft | 195 ft | $27 |
| A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 1,822 ft | 264 ft | $27 |
| B | 013 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 105 ft | 1,561 ft | 223 ft | $27 |
| B | 014 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 83 ft | 1,462 ft | 223 ft | $27 |
| B | 015 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 69 ft | 1,522 ft | 140 ft | $27 |
| B | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 1,449 ft | 171 ft | $27 |
| B | 017 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 49 ft | 1,525 ft | 95 ft | $27 |
| B | 018 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 49 ft | 1,528 ft | 84 ft | $27 |
| B | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 1,447 ft | 168 ft | $27 |
| B | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 82 ft | 1,493 ft | 140 ft | $27 |
| B | 021 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 114 ft | 1,574 ft | 158 ft | $27 |
| B | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 1,718 ft | 135 ft | $27 |
| B | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 57 ft | 1,726 ft | 87 ft | $27 |
| B | 024 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 57 ft | 1,677 ft | 87 ft | $27 |
| B | 025 | type not stated | 45 ft | 1,700 ft | 162 ft | ||
| B | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 105 ft | 1,651 ft | 171 ft | $27 |
| B | 027 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 125 ft | 1,646 ft | 290 ft | $27 |
| C | 028 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 81 ft | 943 ft | 233 ft | $27 |
| C | 029 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 63 ft | 893 ft | 201 ft | $27 |
| C | 030 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 63 ft | 848 ft | 264 ft | $27 |
| C | 031 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 105 ft | 835 ft | 191 ft | $27 |
| C | 032 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 70 ft | 898 ft | 137 ft | $27 |
| C | 033 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 70 ft | 945 ft | 79 ft | $27 |
| C | 034 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 101 ft | 897 ft | 185 ft | $27 |
| C | 035 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 1,019 ft | 116 ft | $27 |
| C | 036 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 101 ft | 964 ft | 200 ft | $27 |
| C | 037 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 1,081 ft | 110 ft | $27 |
| C | 038 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 90 ft | 1,042 ft | 200 ft | $27 |
| C | 039 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 124 ft | 1,142 ft | 191 ft | $27 |
| C | 040 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 107 ft | 1,245 ft | 123 ft | $27 |
| C | 041 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 75 ft | 1,239 ft | 119 ft | $27 |
| C | 042 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 1,165 ft | 53 ft | $27 |
| C | 043 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 78 ft | 1,209 ft | 160 ft | $27 |
| C | 044 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 1,105 ft | 83 ft | $27 |
| C | 045 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 78 ft | 1,177 ft | 181 ft | $27 |
| C | 046 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 112 ft | 1,021 ft | 88 ft | $27 |
| D | 047 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 88 ft | 846 ft | 81 ft | $27 |
| D | 048 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 87 ft | 779 ft | 100 ft | $27 |
| D | 049 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 696 ft | 110 ft | $27 |
| D | 050 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 66 ft | 669 ft | 110 ft | $27 |
| D | 051 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 55 ft | 584 ft | 199 ft | $27 |
| D | 052 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 55 ft | 616 ft | 186 ft | $27 |
| D | 053 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 62 ft | 525 ft | 266 ft | $27 |
| D | 054 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 62 ft | 561 ft | 255 ft | $27 |
| D | 055 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 52 ft | 489 ft | 328 ft | $27 |
| D | 056 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 52 ft | 535 ft | 322 ft | $27 |
| D | 057 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 525 ft | 185 ft | $27 |
| D | 058 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 77 ft | 449 ft | 153 ft | $27 |
| D | 059 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 81 ft | 443 ft | 52 ft | $27 |
| D | 060 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 81 ft | 442 ft | 108 ft | $27 |
| D | 061 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 56 ft | 484 ft | 190 ft | $27 |
| D | 062 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 56 ft | 454 ft | 222 ft | $27 |
| D | 063 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 72 ft | 553 ft | 181 ft | $27 |
| D | 064 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 61 ft | 501 ft | 178 ft | $27 |
| D | 065 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 72 ft | 615 ft | 121 ft | $27 |
| D | 066 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 61 ft | 550 ft | 117 ft | $27 |
| D | 067 HOST | host pad | 50 ft | $27 | |||
| D | 068 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 94 ft | 707 ft | 169 ft | $27 |
| D | 069 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 626 ft | 203 ft | $27 |
| D | 070 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 684 ft | 293 ft | $27 |
| D | 071 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 88 ft | 586 ft | 219 ft | $27 |
| D | 072 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 71 ft | 653 ft | 265 ft | $27 |
| D | 073 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 630 ft | 236 ft | $27 |
| D | 074 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 66 ft | 568 ft | 174 ft | $27 |
| D | 075 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 74 ft | 581 ft | 198 ft | $27 |
| D | 076 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 61 ft | 672 ft | 325 ft | $27 |
| D | 077 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 61 ft | 612 ft | 282 ft | $27 |
| D | 078 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 83 ft | 699 ft | 221 ft | $27 |
| D | 079 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 71 ft | 777 ft | 225 ft | $27 |
| D | 080 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 843 ft | 199 ft | $27 |
| E | 081 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 90 ft | 1,314 ft | 253 ft | $27 |
| E | 082 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 92 ft | 1,290 ft | 145 ft | $27 |
| E | 083 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 90 ft | 1,378 ft | 226 ft | $27 |
| E | 084 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 1,358 ft | 133 ft | $27 |
| E | 085 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | $27 | |||
| E | 086 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 117 ft | 1,473 ft | 222 ft | $27 |
| E | 087 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 78 ft | 1,588 ft | 248 ft | $27 |
| E | 088 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 84 ft | 1,610 ft | 290 ft | $27 |
| E | 089 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 56 ft | 1,663 ft | 177 ft | $27 |
| E | 090 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 108 ft | 1,743 ft | 241 ft | $27 |
| E | 091 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 87 ft | 1,771 ft | 135 ft | $27 |
| E | 092 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 56 ft | 1,699 ft | 121 ft | $27 |
| E | 093 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 86 ft | 1,679 ft | 108 ft | $27 |
| E | 094 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 83 ft | 1,669 ft | 141 ft | $27 |
| E | 095 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 1,592 ft | 221 ft | $27 |
| E | 096 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 81 ft | 1,550 ft | 242 ft | $27 |
| E | 097 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 88 ft | 1,506 ft | 306 ft | $27 |
| E | 098 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 1,403 ft | 306 ft | $27 |
| E | 099 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 106 ft | 1,424 ft | 232 ft | $27 |
| E | 100 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 82 ft | 1,328 ft | 249 ft | $27 |
| E | 101 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 102 ft | 1,329 ft | 134 ft | $27 |
| E | 102 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 82 ft | 1,241 ft | 187 ft | $27 |
| E | 103 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 82 ft | 1,189 ft | 137 ft | $27 |
| E | 104 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 93 ft | 1,251 ft | 44 ft | $27 |
| E | 105 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 1,123 ft | 129 ft | $27 |
| E | 106 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 93 ft | 1,210 ft | 57 ft | $27 |
| E | 107 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 1,068 ft | 193 ft | $27 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 107 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lowry CampgroundWhite River National Forest · 0.2 mi
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Peak OneWhite River National Forest · 2.0 mi
Heaton BayWhite River National Forest · 2.4 mi
Blue River Campground (CO)White River National Forest · 10 miFrom 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.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dillon, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 21°F, day 54°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 2°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
Prospector 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 →