BuddySOS for Electric Forest
BuddySOS is a free festival safety app for Electric Forest campers and attendees. Live GPS across the Double JJ Resort grounds, one-tap SOS, and group chat designed for the heavily forested, hard-to-navigate Electric Forest footprint.
Why a festival app for Electric Forest?
Electric Forest is a four-night camping festival in rural Michigan with a uniquely forested, dimly-lit layout. The 'Forest' itself is intentionally maze-like with art installations and hidden stages — beautiful, and also extremely easy to get lost in with a group. BuddySOS keeps the group locatable when the trees and lighting actively work against you.
Electric Forest's footprint is the wooded section of the Double JJ Resort plus campgrounds. The Forest portion is intentionally maze-like at night, and rural Michigan cell signal is weak at best. The festival's vibe is meant to encourage wandering, which makes BuddySOS's live group map genuinely useful.
How BuddySOS helps at Electric Forest
- Live GPS pins to find your crew inside the Forest, even at 2am with limited visibility.
- Drop pins at art installations and hidden stages so everyone can find them.
- One-tap SOS for the moments when you've wandered too deep into the Forest and need a buddy to come find you.
- Battery Saver Mode tuned for the four-night Electric Forest camping schedule.
Questions about BuddySOS at Electric Forest
Will BuddySOS work in the Forest at night?
Yes. BuddySOS's group map is optimised for low-light viewing so you can read it without blinding yourself or your group. GPS pings continue to update inside the Forest itself, with the same low-signal fallbacks as the other Bonnaroo-style camping festivals.
Ready for Electric Forest? Get the app.
Free on iOS and Android. Create your festival group, send the invite, be ready before you fly out.