Portland's furry convention ran May 22 to 24, 2026 at the Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center under the theme "Wild Wild Furry West." Furlandia posted a closing attendance of 4,395, a 61% year-over-year increase over 2025's 2,724 ("Time Machine"), and a new convention record by a wide margin. Memorial Day weekend in the Pacific Northwest delivered the biggest Furlandia by every measurable axis.
The 2026 program leaned heavily on three Guests of Honor with serious voice-acting and writing credentials (Jonah Scott (the English voice of Louis in Beastars), longtime furry author Kyell Gold, and voice actor Griffin Puatu).
For travel logistics, hotel detail, and earlier editions, see the Furlandia convention page.
After 2024's "Furries In Space" and 2025's "Time Machine," Furlandia for 2026 went straight into Western pastiche. "Wild Wild Furry West" gave the convention's volunteer art and decor teams a saddle-and-spurs visual register that the Pacific Northwest's late-May weather actually accommodated, Memorial Day weekend in Portland tends to be warm enough that the indoor staging didn't have to fight a snow-and-cold backdrop the way a winter Western theme might at a Boston or Stockholm convention.
The theme's strongest pairing was with Kyell Gold as Author GoH, Kyell's body of work includes furry-fiction novels that have leaned into period and frontier settings before, and the Western theme produced clear thematic alignment for his on-floor readings and signings.
A Portland trip means a Memorial Day weekend hotel block, MAX line transit from PDX, and a decision about off-Strip lodging. The convention budgeting guide and hotel block guide cover the basics.
The headline figure landed via the convention's own closing-day announcement: 4,395 attendees, a 61% year-over-year increase over 2025's 2,724. That growth rate is exceptional at this scale, for context, the 2024→2025 jump was 32% (2,060 → 2,724) and the 2023→2024 jump was 104% (1,009 → 2,060). The 2026 number doesn't continue the post-pandemic doubling-pattern Furlandia ran from 2022-2024, but it's still a faster YoY than most U.S. furcons in the same size class.
Two structural factors look load-bearing on the 2026 growth:
Furlandia 2026's charity beneficiary was confirmed as The Pixie Project, a Portland-area non-profit pet adoption and rescue organization. The final fundraising total had not been published at the time of writing. For context, Furlandia's long-running charity history has anchored in Pacific Northwest animal-welfare organizations, Animal Aid PDX from 2016 to 2018, Chintimini Wildlife Center in 2019, with the Pixie Project as a recent rotation choice.
The continued focus on locally-rooted animal-welfare partners is structurally similar to ANW's long Sarvey Wildlife partnership and to AnthrOhio's regional Ohio-rotation pattern. It's a deliberate convention-positioning choice: locally-routed dollars produce a clearer convention-to-community link than a national or international beneficiary would.
In practice the explanation is mundane: hotel-block management at U.S. furcons routinely produces orphan reservations, booked rooms whose holders cancel inside the cancellation window and which the convention staff didn't reclaim from the hotel side in time. The 20-room recovery suggests a deliberate audit pass closer to the convention dates than the original cancellation window. For attendees who'd missed the standard hotel block, the surprise release became a real second-chance shot at the venue.
The same dilemma turns up at other conventions, and our furry convention hotel block guide walks through the typical second-pass mechanics (late releases, waitlist openings, transfer windows) which most conventions of this size operate informally rather than as published policy.
The 2027 edition of Furlandia has not been formally announced at the time of writing. The Memorial Day weekend slot is the convention's traditional pattern (it has run on or near the holiday weekend in every year except its inaugural 2013 edition), which puts the most likely 2027 dates in the May 28 to 30 window if the convention sticks to the tradition. Theme + GoH + venue confirmations would typically land closer to the autumn-of-2026 registration open.
The structural question for Furlandia 2027 is the same one ANE faced in late 2026: does the venue still fit? At 4,395 attendees the Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center is workable but starting to feel tight. If the convention continues to scale at any meaningful rate, a venue expansion conversation (additional overflow hotel, more programming-room footprint, perhaps a larger Oregon Convention Center hall) is the natural next step.
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Browse the Full Calendar4,395 attendees, a record and a 61% year-over-year increase over 2025's 2,724. The figure was posted by the convention at close and amplified across community channels on May 25, 2026.
"Wild Wild Furry West", a Western-pastiche theme with saddle-and-spurs visual staging across the Oregon Convention Center venue floor.
The Pixie Project, a Portland-area pet adoption and rescue non-profit. Final fundraising total had not been published at the time of writing.
Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR. The venue is connected to the convention center by skybridge and sits on the MAX light-rail line, with direct train access from Portland International Airport (PDX). Venue and travel notes live on the Furlandia convention page.
If 2027 would be your first Furlandia, our first con survival guide, first con packing list, and convention budgeting guide cover the basics. Furlandia against the wider North American field is the subject of our North American cons 2026 guide ranks the continent's major events by size, season, and travel cost.
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AnthrOhio 2026 recap: 3,902 attendees (+53% YoY), Rock You Like A Furricane theme, W.A.G.S. 4 Kids charity, plus Exhibitors Row debut.
Anthro New England 2026 recap: a record 7,284 attendees, $50,000 split between Wings Wildlife and Queer Scouts, and a 2027 venue expansion.
Anthro Northwest 2026 recap: a record 3,466 attendees, $30,040 for Sarvey Wildlife, a "Nature" theme, and a New Year's weekend at the Hyatt Regency Seattle.