This was a nice little campground: quiet, clean bathrooms, a creek running through the back of our site. I like how far apart the sites are, and the creek masked the nighttime noises that tend to keep me awake.

There is a good trail accessible from one end of the campground, though it would be good to have better indicators of where we could park when not in our site.

I would love to come back here again; the gate, however, was a dealbreaker. It was incredibly cold and raining our first morning there (no rain in the forecast when we'd booked two days earlier), so I drove out to cell service range to check the day's forecast. To do that, I had to deal with the gate.

Unlocking, re-latching, and then locking it again was an ordeal, especially with frozen fingers in the rain. There's a cap over the latch, but the piece that slides out was stuck. I had to get at it from below.

The next time I came through, it slid away just fine. I don't know if someone stronger had gotten at it, or if the warmer and drier weather did it. Even with that improvement, it was still a huge pain in the rear. The latch kept wanting to fall back into the gate, so with two hands you have to do three things: hold the latch in place, hold the lock apart, and then slide it through the hole in the latch. All with the chain in the way.

Fix the gate situation, and this would be five stars.

We stayed here last summer and will probably go back again in a couple weeks. It's a nice little campground if you have a water filter.

Beautiful area. Water accessible just a few steps from the site, dumpsters a short drive away, bathrooms basic but well-maintained. Sites were close together, but felt private, and it was surprisingly quiet. There's a swimming area nearby with trails and other areas to explore. All the good stuff of real camping without the more labor intensive aspects of more primitive camping, and very few of the annoyances I associate with a popular campground (noise, etc).

I went with my kids and my friend's family. They'd never gone before and loved it enough to start buying up their own camping equipment I've the last year. They're going back to the same campground next month.

I have a small SUV, so I buy firewood and fill up water containers after I've set up camp. I usually expect a decent drive to find what I need, but this involved a very long drive down a rutted gravel road, out of the canyon, and back to Grantsville. I think it was 40 minutes each way.

The campground itself was lovely. Very peaceful, good distance between sites. The camp host was really nice. We lent him a towel on the way in so he could wrap up an injured bird he'd found. I only pack old raggedy towels for camping anyway, but he was so appreciative and came back a couple times to give us updates on the bird (happy ending: its broken lower beak can be replaced with a prosthetic) and free samples of this chocolate filled marshmallow someone dropped off by the pallet load for them to distribute.

We were with a bunch of kids, so we only checked out one part of the Medina trail, but it was beautiful, with lovely views.

I would definitely camp here again, but pack more efficiently so I could do it all in one trip. The four stars is less about the campground and more the state website's lack of clarity ("no water" can mean there's water just at the entrance to the park, or it can mean something more like this).