Location / Name: The Prospect RV Park, Wheat Ridge, CO

Date: 08/25/2016 (1 night)

The Prospect RV Park, Wheat Ridge, CO showed up on a Google search for campgrounds in the vicinity of about 300 miles (328) from my prior stop on our August 2016 trip to Boise; prior stop being in Ellis, KS. It had good reviews, and was on the west side of Denver where I wanted to be, wasn’t too expensive, so that became my target. In retrospect I’m not sure I would do it again since I like more space than the parking-lot style commercial campground this turned out to be, but for an overnighter in the Denver area, it isn’t bad – clean bathrooms and friendly staff.

Apologies (again) – I didn’t get photos of this campground.  Here’s a “morning after” picture of  Colorado.

General description of park/area:

Prospect RV Park is located in the town of Wheat Ridge, CO, a suburb west of Denver. The park is conveniently located at 11600 W. 44th Ave, just off of I-70 as it starts to wind out of Denver. Denver, of course, is a gateway to the Rocky Mountains, and a destination in its own right. Prospect RV Park is nicely located for access to Denver and points west. The RV park is run by some nice people, and is a clean stopover, or even base camp if you plan on only spending the nights there and the days exploring elsewhere. It’s too tightly packed to suit me if the plans are to spend much time in the “campground.”

General description of campground:

The campground is a convenient place to stay in the Denver area. The campground is clean, quiet and well-maintained. It is easy to access, and while some turns within the park may be pretty tight, big rigs had made it to pretty much all reaches within the campground. The driveways are gravel. The picnic tables at each site are nice, and are basically the space between campsites. There is no privacy between sites, so “love your neighbor” is a good motto. The bathrooms are clean and quite nice. 

Access: There should be no problems with access into the park; some of the sites might require watchful maneuvering to get into.

Site: We stayed in Site #50, a pull-thru past the office building. These site driveways are fairly short, and I had to park my car parallel to the site driveway in back of my trailer. Picnic table is (to the best of my recollection) in a concrete pad right next to the driveway, and the water/electric pedestals were next to the pad. The site was level.

Electric: 50/30/20 amp at RV. I used a basic analyzer/surge protector, and the 30-amp circuit passed the tests. It did not test for high/low voltage.

Water: Water connections are available at the RV campsites, shared between two sites, but with separate faucets. They share a hydrant with a single on/off, and one of the two faucet valves leaked on our pedestal, so if either me or my neighbor had wanted water on all the time, it would have been leaking all the time. Pressure seemed “good” – I would certainly have used a pressure reducer if I had connected. A 25’ hose would probably be OK unless you parked at one end or the other of the driveway rather than in the middle.

Bathhouse: The bathhouses are quite nice, and an interesting arrangement. There is a keypad with a code to access the laundry/bathroom building. Then inside there are 8 numbered bathrooms, and you get a key to one of the bathrooms. Each bathroom is like one you would have at home, with sink, toilet, and shower, with hand soap, bathmat, and hand towel provided. It was clean and pleasant. The only problem with this arrangement is that since this is a shared bathroom, if someone else had your number and was using the bathroom, you had to wait until they were done – a sign asked you to limit your usage to 10 minutes. This was not a problem during our stay, and with many folks using their full hookups, I suspect that with the load spread over 8 bathrooms this isn’t much of a problem.

Sewer: Some sites are full hookup. There is a dump station near the exit.

Cell Phone Service: Good Verizon cell service; good 4G hotspot service. They have guest wifi available, but I didn’t use it. The nice lady that checked me in said it was good for checking email and Facebook, but don’t expect to stream a movie on Netflix – quite reasonable and normal.

Trash disposal: Dumpsters are located near the exit. No provision for recycling.

Cost: $32 for my water/electric site. With tax, it came to $36.64, the most expensive of the sites we used on our 10 night trip from Georgia to Idaho. Still, not too bad for accommodations in Denver.

Supplies/Food: This campground is in town. There is a produce market across the street, and a Walmart about 2 miles away.

T@b Note:

We towed our T@b for 328 miles from Ellis, Kansas to Denver, CO. We got 15.5 MPG, one of the better towing days on our trip. The T@b was a nice, quiet haven in the crowded campground.