For Campgrounds, RV Resorts & Marinas
Good WiFi Starts Underground
The first complaint at the front desk on a July Saturday is the WiFi. When it's bad, the problem is usually how the access points are fed and how small the internet feed is, not the gear. We fix both: fiber bored between your buildings and access points with nothing torn up, and a bigger feed lined up while we're at it.
Why Campground WiFi Fails on Busy Weekends
Guests rank WiFi with clean bathrooms now, and bad WiFi shows up in your Google reviews. Three things break it, and a new router doesn't fix any of them.
Full Bars, Nothing Loads
Ask any camper: the signal shows full bars and pages still won't load. Another access point won't fix it, because the problem is usually bandwidth, not coverage. When access points are fed by radio links instead of cable, those links use the same channels your guests' phones need. The network is competing with itself.
Trees and Weather Eat Wireless Links
The point-to-point radios feeding your far buildings lose signal when the leaves come in and drop entirely in ice storms. The fix that holds is glass in the ground, where the weather can't reach it.
The Feed Is Too Small
A hundred sites streaming on a connection sized for a house won't work no matter what gear you buy. The feed itself usually has to get bigger, and we can help with that too.
Campers Put It in the Reviews
Don't take our word for it. The numbers first, then some real reviews of Northern Michigan campgrounds. We left the park names off on purpose.
48%
of campers call WiFi the most important amenity when choosing a campground, per KOA's 2024 industry report.
71%
of RVers say decent WiFi is essential, per Good Sam. Two thirds would pay a daily rate for internet that works.
63
Google reviews mention the WiFi at one big Straits-area park. That beats parking, TV, and air conditioning as a review topic. At a Traverse City park, 1 in 12 reviews brings it up.
"No WiFi! It was advertised, but no access... Don't advertise an amenity that isn't available. Please fix this issue."
Google review, 2 stars, Northern Michigan campground
"They also say they have Wi-Fi for streaming, it was horrible. Even when connected there was no internet."
Camper review, 3 stars, Straits-area campground
"The wifi did not work at our site. We were told at check-in that we shouldn't be surprised if we can't connect to it because it's 'a work in progress.'"
Camper review, 2 stars, Leelanau-area campground
"...very first campground we've been to that stated they offered wifi and it worked!"
Google review, 5 stars. Working WiFi is rare enough that guests headline reviews with it.
What We Actually Do
Networks and directional boring are both our trade, and a campground build needs both.
Fiber to Every Access Point
We bore fiber between your buildings and out to the pole-mounted access points, under roads, sites, and mature trees, without disturbing any of it. Fiber backhaul gives every access point full capacity.
Keep Your WiFi Vendor
We don't sell WiFi gear and we're not after your WiFi company's job. We build the underground their equipment sits on, and we can consult on the wireless side too. Most WiFi companies don't sell the internet connection either, so lining up the feed doesn't step on their toes.
The Internet Feed Itself
We're an authorized agent for multiple fiber carriers, and the carriers pay us, not you. One conversation covers the connection to your property and the construction to spread it across the park.
Built While You're Closed
October through April the park is empty and frozen ground doesn't stop a directional drill. We build all off-season, and you open in spring with WiFi that works. No torn-up sites and no construction during your season.
We Find What's Already Buried
MISS DIG won't locate private lines, and a campground is mostly private lines. Decades of water, power, and septic runs nobody has a map for. Our own locating specialists find and mark them before any drill head moves. GPS mapping of what we cross comes with the work, and we can map the whole park if you want it.
Upgrade Sewer, Water & Power Too
Once the crew and the drill are on your property, adding capacity is the easy part. A bigger water line to a new loop, power to added sites, a sewer run to the bathhouse. One trip, bored under everything alongside the fiber.
We Ran Wireless Networks Before We Buried Fiber
FiberNorth's roots are in wireless. Before the drills, our founder Bill Gaylord built wireless networks that delivered broadband to homes across Northern Michigan, and the biggest fight was never signal strength. It was that there are only so many frequencies, and every wireless backhaul burns up channels the customers' devices need. Move the backhaul onto fiber and every frequency goes back to the users.
The cellular carriers reached the same conclusion. Their towers started on wireless backhauls and run on fiber now, and we've built fiber to about 25 of those towers ourselves. A campground is the same problem, smaller. Get the backhaul onto fiber and the radios only have to serve your guests.
We've Done This at a Campground
Last year we built the underground for a KOA campground's new expansion, working right alongside the company providing the WiFi. That's the arrangement we like. Before that, we built the fiber infrastructure serving WiFi across the condo buildings of a major Grand Traverse area resort, and we've put fiber in the ground for internet providers across Northern Michigan for over a decade, including a 27-mile build finished in one season. A campground is a small job for a crew that builds at that scale.
We call in MISS DIG on every bore, and we locate your private water, power, and septic lines ourselves before the drill head moves. When we're done, your sites look the way we found them, and the WiFi works at the back loop.
A free walk of your park and a conversation
You tell us what guests gripe about, we tell you what we see. Then a few plans, and you pick what fits. If there's no real problem, or it's something your WiFi company can fix with the gear you've got, we'll say so. The walk costs you nothing either way, all work happens in your slow or off season, and we book the winter in the fall.