Denver West-Central City KOA

These sites are expensive, between $75 and $80 in the spring of 2020. The back-in sites are a bit better than the rest, but everyone is camping in a big, gravel lot. They've improved the "parking lot" vibe by putting in nice cement patios with nice furniture and full-sized grills, but without trees you are right next to your neighbors (I've been closer to my neighbors at other campgrounds, but this was still pretty close).

With that said, you can't beat the location. It's right up the hill from Central City, and fairly close to Denver. But if you want that mountain experience, this isn't it.

Everyone was very friendly, cell service was great, and they have propane on site. Just choose your site wisely.

This is a great place with good access to Denver and the mountains. This KOA is under construction as of July 2019. On July 4 Central City puts on a great firework show that can be seen for the RV park. The drawbacks to this campground are the Wifi is terrible (They told me its in work to fix) and Verizon, our only cell service is just as terrible. When this park gets completed it will be good.

This is an expensive place to stay so we planned our stay for a month to take advantage of the monthly rate which reduced the daily rate significantly. If you like casinos this is a great place to stay as Black Hawk and Central City are booming with casinos. The road to the campsite is easy enough to get too but is steep. New road exits allow easy access to the KOA without having to drive into Central City. Visit Idaho Springs for a better downtown experience and food (my favorite is Beau Jo’s), Hidee and Argo mine tours are worth checking out.

Verizon was the best for data with 20 down and 10 up, AT&T was good with 10 down and 5 up, T-Mobile was usable with solid 20 down but upload was mostly under 1. WiFi was solid and very usable for anything including streaming Netflix except for the occasional evening.

I'm not sure why this is so expensive, but we were very tired and needed a place in an emergency. Normally we like KOA's because you know what you're getting, kinda like McDonalds.

This was a bit different. check in was fine, store has more way gifts than food, or supplies. Nearest store (Safeway) is about 15 Miles away. It's about 8500ft elevation, what has great views of the small mining town which now has casino's...That may be the draw here and also the price justification.

Sites were concrete pad, with good electrical, looks like they were just recovering from the snow as there was a big pile of gravel, and heavy equipment. Not really a kid place, more of a place to have access to the casino's IMHO