They are in town once during the week she is there. They have a hard line at the camp. It's just nice to be able to talk to each other once a day for a couple of minutes type of thing.
I'm working on trying to make contact with the local ham's to see if they have a repeater with IRLP that covers the camp as well.
When she went last year her ATT phone didn't work unless she was in the town or drove about 3 miles out of camp.
I'll look into the verizon solution as well.