diff --git a/src/SparseArrays.jl b/src/SparseArrays.jl
index ff554c8e..84690b95 100644
--- a/src/SparseArrays.jl
+++ b/src/SparseArrays.jl
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import Base: +, -, *, \, /, &, |, xor, ==, zero, @propagate_inbounds
 import LinearAlgebra: mul!, ldiv!, rdiv!, cholesky, adjoint!, diag, eigen, dot,
     issymmetric, istril, istriu, lu, tr, transpose!, tril!, triu!, isbanded,
     cond, diagm, factorize, ishermitian, norm, opnorm, lmul!, rmul!, tril, triu,
-    matprod_dest, generic_matvecmul!, generic_matmatmul!
+    matprod_dest, generic_matvecmul!, generic_matmatmul!, copytrito!
 
 import Base: adjoint, argmin, argmax, Array, broadcast, circshift!, complex, Complex,
     conj, conj!, convert, copy, copy!, copyto!, count, diff, findall, findmax, findmin,
diff --git a/src/sparsematrix.jl b/src/sparsematrix.jl
index b9637eda..f94318b2 100644
--- a/src/sparsematrix.jl
+++ b/src/sparsematrix.jl
@@ -4540,3 +4540,26 @@ function _reverse!(A::SparseMatrixCSC, dims::Tuple{Integer,Integer})
     dims == (1,2) || dims == (2,1) || throw(ArgumentError("invalid dimension $dims in reverse"))
     _reverse!(A, :)
 end
+
+function copytrito!(M::AbstractMatrix, S::AbstractSparseMatrixCSC, uplo::Char)
+    Base.require_one_based_indexing(M, S)
+    if !(uplo == 'U' || uplo == 'L')
+        throw(ArgumentError(lazy"uplo argument must be 'U' (upper) or 'L' (lower), got '$uplo'"))
+    end
+    m,n = size(S)
+    m1,n1 = size(M)
+    (m1 < m || n1 < n) && throw(DimensionMismatch("dest of size ($m1,$n1) should have at least the same number of rows and columns than src of size ($m,$n)"))
+
+    rv = rowvals(S)
+    nz = nonzeros(S)
+    for col in axes(S,2)
+        trirange = uplo == 'U' ? (1:min(col, size(S,1))) : (col:size(S,1))
+        fill!(view(M, trirange, col), zero(eltype(S)))
+        for i in nzrange(S, col)
+            row = rv[i]
+            (uplo == 'U' && row <= col) || (uplo == 'L' && row >= col) || continue
+            M[row, col] = nz[i]
+        end
+    end 
+    return M
+end
diff --git a/test/sparsematrix_ops.jl b/test/sparsematrix_ops.jl
index 829baf89..94e268e0 100644
--- a/test/sparsematrix_ops.jl
+++ b/test/sparsematrix_ops.jl
@@ -601,4 +601,29 @@ end
     end
 end
 
+@testset "copytrito!" begin
+    S = sparse([1,2,2,2,3], [1,1,2,2,4], [5, -19, 73, 12, -7])
+    M = fill(Inf, size(S))
+    copytrito!(M, S, 'U')
+    for col in axes(S, 2)
+        for row in 1:min(col, size(S,1))
+            @test M[row, col] == S[row, col]
+        end
+        for row in min(col, size(S,1))+1:size(S,1)
+            @test isinf(M[row, col])
+        end
+    end
+    M .= Inf
+    copytrito!(M, S, 'L')
+    for col in axes(S, 2)
+        for row in 1:col-1
+            @test isinf(M[row, col])
+        end
+        for row in col:size(S, 1)
+            @test M[row, col] == S[row, col]
+        end
+    end
+    @test_throws ArgumentError copytrito!(M, S, 'M')
+end
+
 end # module