Spruce Lake Retreat

★★★★★Wanda Padilla

Mount Laurel Lodge, great for large groups. Can cook in this lodge, large meeting space downstairs.

★★★★Aju Thomas

The food was edible but not that great. Almost everything in the buffet was frozen or processed. The cafeteria was a bit crowded as well. Many of the facilities and equipment feel very outdated. The gym and game rooms require much maintenance. Damaged equipment should be repaired or replaced. Maybe there should be a equipment check out/check in procedure so that guests are not damaging anything.

★★★★★Stephania M

I've been going there since 2016 with my church. Never disappoint. The staff work so hard to make us feel welcome. The atmosphere is very serene. Clean, the food is delicious. I always stop at the gift shop.

★★★★Kathryn Cerva

I will definitely be coming again and I loved the ignite retreat. Had a lot of fun meeting kids from other churches too! Made some friends, great retreat for teens and youth groups. Lots of activities, laser tag was a blast. If you are at the gym and you want to go down to the main area with everything else I suggest walking, it takes 30 minutes as the camp is big but I enjoyed the walk with friends and youth leaders. I forget the singers name (blonde hair, played the guitar) but he was amazing and I enjoyed singing along for worship. Pastor Dave was great. He relates to the lesson and tells us a lot about his life. He taught me a lot. He also played basketball with us kids which was fun because he's a basketball guy. Each youth group had our own room to hang out and have group chats after lessons. The snack shop upstairs was super cheap and sold shirts. Upstairs had some games like ping pong, carpet ball, and foosball. The pavilion (it's an indoor one) was nice and I loved having meals in there. I'm super picky but they had a ton of breakfast options (one morning had pancakes, cereals, fruits, bagels, coffee, apple juice, and OJ). Dinner was walking tacos with steak as meat which was great. Lunch was ham and cheese sandwich. Only issue with food was the snack bar down by the hotels. Food was good, but ice cream over froze or something and a ton of people then ordered ice cream and it took an hour to get it so me and my friends missed the rock wall. My friends that had come last year said this had happened last year. Was a little disappointed that I missed out on other stuff on a trip that should've been 20 minutes. It was ok for me though because I might've wimped out on the rock wall but my friend was disappointed. Ok so I am already always disgusted sleeping in hotels but I hated sleeping in Carol Cottage. Even my friend who was ok with sleeping in hotels was like "ew it stinks" and we were too scared to shower. Beds weren't that bad but there was a weird stain on the sheets so I laid on a sleeping bag with my own blanket instead. The room wasn't very modern. Also all night the people upstairs were walking around and it was super loud like the floor was thin and it kept us up. Could also hear people talking on the other side of wall. I didn't shower but everyone who did said it was either hot or freezing water and you can't get an you can't get an in-between temperature. My friend said she thought she was getting boiled like a lobster. The guys stayed in a house and these was a brown splotch thing on the wall and they said it was like poop. Woke up early and went to the big hotel and sat in lobby. Complementary coffee was great and view from the deck was pretty. Gift shop was nice. Got little siblings gifts and a sweatshirt and other stuff. Gym was big, had rock wall, volleyball, basketball, 9 square, and different sports balls and flag football. upstairs had foosball, Nintendo, ping pong, carpet ball, and a chill area. There was a snack shop. Nature center has snakes and leopard geckos to hold. Taxidermys to look at and a touch section to feel cleaned claws and rocks and bones. In the winter they have tubing but,sadly,there wasn't enough snow. I think if the pond is fully frozen they ice skate but I'm not sure. It's okay there was still plenty of stuff to do and no reason to say your bored. I don't remember if I mentioned it but we did laser tag which was LIT, they had inflatables in the pavilion to hide behind. Would 1000% come back next year. Just don't want to wait an hour for ice cream or sleep in those rooms.

★★★★★Edna Sanchez

This is a great place, clean, friendly, beautiful scenery, peaceful and fun. Our Host Emma S was very attentive and efficient. Also Herb L was very informative and the girls at the front counter were very nice. This is a great place for the family. Thank you for being part of our great memories. We will definitely come back!