Spruces - Big Cottonwood

Clean sites and beautiful location

We love this campground! It’s super close to home, so full of trees and beautiful plants, close to the river, just lovely. You feel secluded and you barely notice you’re camping by others when you have one of the spots in the deeper loops. We love our spot we get every time! I’m keeping it a secret lol. The only complaint I have is that the men’s restroom in the upper loop that we were closest to was not up to par. The sink didn’t work so my husband and son had to walk back to camp with dirty hands to wash. Plus I think my son said one of the toilets was broken and there was no toilet paper. Otherwise, great campground and we are making this a yearly camping destination!

Nice spot

It is a beautiful - but very a busy, noisy - place. The area is beautiful and the campground is well taken care of. The one big downside is the canyon road is just across the stream and is SO BUSY and NOISY that you don't really feel like you have "gotten away from things". The traffic noise was constant and loud! for the 4 days we were there. There also seemed to be an unending parade of NOISY motorcycles zooming up and down the canyon - well into the nights. Its close, convenient, but not very peaceful. Not our first choice for a getaway.

Beautiful area. Nearby Brighton made for a nice outing.

My eight-year-old nephew was really upset they let a moose go through our campsite, but other than that we had a wonderful time. The bathrooms were clean (bring your own soap), there was plenty of room for all of our tents, and we had a lovely three-day camping trip. The pictures of campsites for 19-21 don't do it justice, because it's against the mountain and you pitch your tents up the hill from the fire pit. The kids had a great time exploring the mountainside.

This was our first camping trip since my husband and I were 30 years younger so Spruces was a perfect place. Grant it that it is right next to Big Cottonwood Canyon and very noisy but was very convenient by being only 15 to 20 minutes from our house. The campground was very clean and had flushable toilets. The glamping tent was worth the extra money and the mattresses were super comfy. During our stay we saw a bull moose, a Momma moose with her 2 babies, pot guts galore and the friendliest chipmunks. We were in spot #43 which was next to a little creek in the middle section. There is a trail to Doughnut Falls located in the lower section of the campground which was nice as we had the trail to ourselves until it joined up with others who just drive up. There are other hiking trails within walking distance so that also made it convenient. Overall we had a wonderful stay. P.S. our site did not have one of those built in standing charcoal grills and were grateful we had been smart enough to bring a propane stove. The picture shows that they do but better be prepared.

great experience

This place is beautiful. Our tent was in the shade all day! The bathrooms are flush toilets and running faucets. The space was large and parking was easy. I will definitely be coming back. I gave 4 stars because the place for tents had a lot of roots poking up and made it a little difficult to place the tent, but that is how it is camping under trees.

The camping is awesome, but there needs to be some maintenance on two of the bathrooms in the lower unit, one had a side not open and the other side was disgusting, the other one on the west side needed clean good, the fire pit on site 28 needs to be re-poured around the ring it is all broken away and very dangerous, that fire ring seriously needs to be fixed, I love the spruces campground though and the camping is spectacular. Thank you