Western PA Furry Weekend 2027 runs Friday, October 1 to Sunday, October 3, 2027. The organizers announced the dates the week after the 2026 edition, alongside its charity total. Registration dates, prices, the Featured Artist and the charity partner have not been announced yet.
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The price for 2027 has not been announced. The figure is from 2026, for reference only, so check the convention's own site before you budget.
The lodge's position makes it accessible for Northeast and Midwest attendees:
Curated stays near North Park Lodge, Allison Park, United States.
The lodging setup is specific to the "lodge-con" format:
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Whole weekend, food and drink throughout, two door-prize tickets, collectible cup
Adds early badge pickup, four charity-auction seed tickets, an exclusive event
Adds four more seed tickets and artwork by the Featured Artist
WPAFW is sold out for 2026. Every tier covers Friday-Sunday. Registration deadlines were August 16 for Ultra, September 6 for Super and September 21 for Standard.
WPAFW 2026 ran October 2-4, 2026, at North Park Lodge and sold out of registration in July. Attendees raised $21,400 for Joey's PAW, a nonprofit that helps dogs that need wheelchairs and prosthetics, and Mythic was the Featured Artist.
WPAFW 2025 drew 645 attendees to its scenic lodge-con gathering and raised $23,900 for Animal Advocates, with one shelter cat adopted during the event weekend. Mythic, the 2026 Featured Artist, took the baton from 2025's HearthFox.
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2027
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Oct 3-5
Theme
A Walk in the Park with the Wild Things
2024
Oct 4-6
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No Dealers Den, no Artist Alley, by design
Almost every US furcon is built around a Dealers Den plus Artist Alley, with the charity auction as a Sunday-afternoon side track. WPAFW deliberately inverts that. The org publishes the choice on both the FAQ and About pages: "the focus is entirely on raising money for our charity partner... we have a charity auction with some amazing items in it where we encourage attendees to spend the money they might have otherwise used in a Dealers Den or Artist Alley." The charity auction runs as a live comedy show on the closing day and pulls the spending that would normally flow to vendor tables. A single Featured Artist program, running continuously since 2005, with 2026 featuring Mythic from the Cleveland furry community, substitutes for the standard artist economy and supplies a custom piece of artwork as the top-tier Ultra Sponsor perk.
All-inclusive food and the Tilted Tavern pop-up bar
Registration covers a full weekend of catered meals, Friday lunch, dinner, and dessert; Saturday brunch, dinner, and dessert; Sunday lunch and dinner, plus the on-site Tilted Tavern, a pop-up bar serving beer, cider, and craft soda. Almost no US furcon includes food and alcohol in the ticket price; most defer food service to the host hotel or to food trucks. WPAFW's model is the operational consequence of the park venue, which has no restaurant: the organization provisions everything itself. The CoC pairs that with a Pennsylvania-state-law-grounded service rule that staff over-serving cutoffs cannot be appealed to another staff member, and the shuttle program runs hotel-to-venue and venue-to-hotel precisely so that no one who has been drinking needs to drive.
Tier-cascading pre-reg deadlines and a hard sell-out before the event
WPAFW publishes three different registration deadlines, one per tier, each chained to the matching refund deadline: Ultra Sponsor closes August 16, Super Sponsor closes September 6, and Standard Sponsor closes September 21. There is no on-site registration ("we will sell out of registration slots ahead of the event") and no day pass. Refund, transfer, upgrade, and downgrade mechanics all cascade off the same ladder, you can only upgrade to a higher tier before that higher tier's deadline. Combined, this is a hard-cap model with structurally cascading cutoffs, distinct from the modal US furcon pattern (a single flat refund cliff plus walk-in availability for any unsold capacity). The lodge's physical occupancy is the underlying constraint.
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