Popular Placer Areas

Popular Placer Areas

Use the following map to locate popular placer areas along the Arkansas River.  Click on numbers 1-3 on the map for a detailed map of these placer areas.

 Click here to download a pdf version of the Overview map (466 Kb).

Click here to view a map of the Cache Creek placer mining area Click here to view a map of the Gold Prospectors of America Association placer mining area Click here to view a map of the Point Bar placer mining area
Placer Mining
Gold Prospecters Association of America (GPAA) Placer Areas. (Campground in area: Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area's Railroad Bridge Campground.) Cache Creek Placer Area Gold Prospectors of Colorado (GPOC) Elephant Rock Placer Area Point Bar Placer Areas (Campground in this area: Arkanasas Headwaters Recreation Area's Rincon Campground) Click numbers on the map for specific area maps