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About Big Springs - Caribou
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Reviews (52)
What Guests Are Saying
Big Springs - Caribou offers a well-maintained and enjoyable camping experience, highlighted by friendly and helpful camp hosts. Visitors appreciate the clean facilities, beautiful surroundings, and fun nature trails, making it a great spot for families and outdoor enthusiasts. However, some concerns were noted regarding cattle presence and occasional traffic in the campground, but these did not significantly detract from the overall positive experience.
What Guests Are Saying
Big Springs - Caribou offers a well-maintained and enjoyable camping experience, highlighted by friendly and helpful camp hosts. Visitors appreciate the clean facilities, beautiful surroundings, and fun nature trails, making it a great spot for families and outdoor enthusiasts. However, some concerns were noted regarding cattle presence and occasional traffic in the campground, but these did not significantly detract from the overall positive experience.
Review Summary
Marisa R
VerifiedSeptember 2, 2021 • Stayed at: 002, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Beautiful and clean. The sites are already leveled, made it super easy to set up. Some sites had pavilions, benches and tables. Camp host let us use atvs at 5mph through camp. Bathrooms were kept clean, No spiders or awful smell. I would go back again.
David V
VerifiedSeptember 3, 2021 • Stayed at: 023, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Great camping area at the end of the road. Good trails for walking and a nice creek nearby. Was an easy drive into Lava Hot Springs for the day. Campsite well kept, vault restrooms were some of the cleanest we had seen. Will be back.
Cyndee Z
VerifiedSeptember 10, 2021 • Stayed at: 005, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Our family had a great time camping here over the weekend. Excellent place to ride 4-wheeler’s, take hikes, enjoy the scenery. Our camp host and hostess were very friendly and helpful. Best camp hosts yet.
Cristian C
VerifiedJune 7, 2022 • Stayed at: 029, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Had a great spot not too far from river
Heidi B
VerifiedJune 11, 2022 • Stayed at: 005, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Beautiful area. We had fun doing a little hiking in the forest. Crying babies at night, but that couldn't be helped. Fairly clean restrooms. Our 12 man tent wouldn't fit on the tent sight, so we had to put it on the gravel. But, it was a good experience.
Larissa J
VerifiedJuly 30, 2022 • Stayed at: 021, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
To get there we had to take a dirt road (22 minutes) that was very bumpy. The campground road had deep ruts which was challenging for a camper, and the site markings were worn making it hard to find our spot. Not a lot of room for a tent - lots of sagebrush.
Jill P
VerifiedAugust 7, 2022 • Stayed at: 002, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
This campground is in a beautiful location! The little creek that runs through it is fun for the kids. The road to the campground is single lane and not maintained very well. The campground itself is overgrown with brush and trees and could use to be trimmed back everywhere to make it more camper friendly. There is water at the campground, but only to fill a bucket. The hose bibs aren’t threaded, so you can’t hook up to water to fill your camper. The hosts did a good job keeping the bathrooms clean, but they did not monitor ATV use in the campgrounds at all. It was not allowed, but they were in and out of our campground all weekend, although they did maintain a slow speed. The camp hosts were less than pleasant to deal with and started yelling at us the moment we arrived. They did come back and apologize, however a calm and quick explanation would have been much better than yelling at us. It takes about 30 minutes to get into Lava from the campground.
Dee J
VerifiedSeptember 5, 2022 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
The camp host put us in a different camp than the one I selected because he thought we wouldn't fit there, which was fine. The camp was fine but nothing extraordinary.
Trent A
VerifiedAugust 28, 2023 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Long 7 miles of dirt road to reach the campground. Once you make it, its a quiet, shady little campground.
James M
VerifiedSeptember 5, 2023 • Stayed at: 002, Loop: BIG SPRINGS - CARIBOU
Campsites weren't accurate to map. Changed to a group site that wasn't listed. Water was off for hygiene reasons. Found out everyone else was just paying 1/2 price (because of the water issue). Canceling would have only returned $40 of the $112 I booked the sites with. No camp host present. Overall, just a frustrating experience.
Location Big Springs - Caribou
Address:
4350 Cliffs Drive
Pocatello, ID, 83204
United States
Just east of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, look for "Pebble Area" sign and turn left onto Blaser Highway/Old Highway 30. Go north on the paved highway 9 miles to Pebble Creek Road, known locally as Mike's Place or Whiskey Mike's. Turn left across railroad tracks on gravel Forest Road 036. Travel about 7 miles to the campground.
Pebble Creek Road is a narrow single-lane dirt road with limited sight distance and not suitable for the very large RVs (the tour bus size RVs that require overhead clearance due to their height and have limited turning capacity due to length, as opposed to a truck with trailer of the same length which has a tighter turning radius due to the hitch).
The campground is accessible via Blaser Highway/Old Highway 30, which is a paved highway connecting to nearby roads. The nearest major highway is US Highway 30, approximately 9 miles from the campground.
Elevation: 1930 feet
51 mi drive to downtown Pocatello (over 1 hr (70 min))
Policies & Rules
General
- Big Springs Campground is managed by Pinnacle Parks Llc under a special use permit with the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. For questions please contact 208-757-3999 between the hours of .
- This is Big Springs Campground on the Caribou-Targhee National Forest near Lava Hot Springs, Idaho
- The campground has first-come, first-serve campsites and reservable campsites. Visitors can check the kiosk board for available campsites, check if the campsite is occupied, and if available pay at the fee tube.
- A fee of $5 will be collected on-site for extra vehicles parked in a campsite. The Allowable Vehicle/Driveway Details section has information on maximum vehicles allowed for individual campsites. Single sites: 1 vehicle, Double Sites: 2 vehicles, Triple Site: 3 vehicles
- There are no electric, water or sewer site hookups at this campground
- This facility is pack-it-in/pack-it-out
- Off-road vehicles not allowed to be operated on campground roads
- Wildlife Caution
- Idaho OHV Safety Message
- Click here for more info about the Caribou-Targhee National Forest
- Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
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Last updated: September 12, 2026