Spruces - Big Cottonwood

beautiful area

Site 49 is a wonderful site and perfect for tents: secluded, plenty big & flat, and surrounded by aspens and other beautiful vegetation. There are flush toilets and sinks in the bathhouses. Make sure you have your own hand soap.
PLEASE be sure to read the “Need to Knows” more carefully than I did. There is a gate that closes at 10pm. If you arrive after, you have to park your car outside the gate on the road and then walk to your site in the pitch black with all your equipment. Highly inconvenient.

This has been the best site we’ve found yet. Lovely, with a river running through the campsite, (may not be great for families with small children) the bathroom is close, but not so close that you hear people going in and out. There are flush toilets but no working sinks or water fountains, so make sure you have washing and drinking water. The water pump by the bathroom worked fine for filling containers. It is shady most of the day, with a couple hours in the morning when the picnic tables are in direct sun, but a canopy set up overhead can deflect the heat. No immediate neighbors in three directions, just across to the East.
Downsides were the roots that cut through the pavement in the picnic area, serious tripping hazard! Also a plethora of daddy long legged spiders and noisy squirrels. (If you don’t like those kinds of things.)

Site 23...nice site, a little closer to other sites than the map indicates. Really great Donut Falls trail access. Bathrooms mostly clean. There was a weird smell around the campground, which seemed to draw flies a lot more than usual, but overall an enjoyable experience.

The campground is nice over all, has water and flush toilets.

Our extended family group of 14 reserved two yurts for campers ages 2-78 (with tent space there, too). We had a fantastic time! Everyone slept well, made meals using the grill and fire pit, and played hard. One day we went to hike to the beautiful Lake Mary and another to Silver Lake, a simple mile hike on level ground at Brighton. The Yurts for us, at our age, are the only way to go, given we don't have campers or recreational vehicles. The hosts were helpful and the campsite well maintained.

We love camping at Spruces Campground but unfortunately this particular site (site 27) was NOT our favorite. If you are camping for just 1 day where you come after 3 and leave before noon it should be completely fine for you. We stayed for several days early in the season and there is NO SHADE at this site from 12-3. Well we had about a 1 foot square patch of shade in the corner by the table that my kids fought over but ..... man if you are staying more than 1 night either bring a canopy or pick a different site. The site below us (to the west) or the site across the street both had tons of shade.

We absolutely loved campsite 7! Close to bathrooms, the stream, and plenty of shade for both of our spring bar tents. We loved how many trees there were to set up our hammocks. It was a blast, we will definitely be making this campground into frequent places to camp. The water spigots and flushing toilets were a really nice break from pit toilets and burry it yourself. Several of us also had a little bit of phone service up there too. I hallway prefer not to have service, but we did have a little bit of a medical problem come up so it was a tender mercy to have with the situation.

It was clean and a great spot!!!

Beautiful campground, clean bathrooms. Quiet.