Is there internet at Camp Deep End?
A boutique music festival and family campout buried in the Mendocino County redwoods — beautiful, and almost entirely off the grid.
Where it is
Redwood campground, Mendocino CountyCoverage shading is an illustrative estimate of the connectivity conditions at this venue, not measured carrier data.
Camp Deep End lives up to its name. The redwood groves of inland Mendocino County are steep, densely canopied, and miles from the nearest tower, which makes them gorgeous and almost completely disconnected.
Families arrive planning to check in with a babysitter or a teen back home and discover their phone has been searching for signal since they turned off the highway.
Why the signal struggles here
Two things gang up on your signal here: terrain and trees. Steep ridgelines block line of sight to distant towers, and old-growth redwood canopy absorbs what little signal makes it into the valley.
Even carriers that look fine on a statewide coverage map show a blank hole over this part of Mendocino County. When people do find a bar or two, it is usually by hiking to a specific ridge — not something you want to rely on to reach family.
Carrier outlook at the site
- Verizon
- No service
- No reliable signal in the groves
- AT&T
- No service
- Dead zone under the canopy
- T-Mobile
- No service
- No coverage this deep in
Rent a Starlink for Camp Deep End
This site is off-grid, so satellite internet is the only thing that reliably works. Bay Area Starlink Rentals rents fully equipped Starlink kits with unlimited data — pick one up in Oakland before you head out and keep your whole crew connected.
Check availability