The Ultimate Furry Campout! Registration, Meals, and Lodging as low as $40... total! Wild Nights is an annual furry-themed event in late April. Held at Robbers Cave State Park in Eastern Oklahoma, it features a mix of traditional furry convention activities as well as popular outdoor activities! Your $40 basic registration includes not only the activities for the event, but also meals and lodging in one of the on-site cabins. That's more affordable than any hotel convention! So come out and join everyone for Wild Nights, the fandom's newest and greatest outdoor event! Wild Nights is operated by the Missouri Exotic Species Arts Assocation, a member-run not-for-profit organization. Our charity is Safari's Sanctuary, a not-for-profit all-volunteer zoo and animal rescue facility located in Broken Arrow, OK. To register for Wild Nights, either Log In or Create an Account

Quick Links Download our Printed Flier. Guests of Honor: Tzup & Crys the Hybrid! Wild Nights on Twitter Our Charity: Safari's Sanctuary. To register for Wild Nights: Login or Create Account.

2009 Oct 27: Cabins and Staffing

Just got back from Oklacon 2009, and it was a great event! Most of the planning for Wild Nights was sort of on hold until after Oklacon, since several of those involved with Wild Nights also help out with Oklacon.

Now planning can begin in earnest. First, those interested in helping out at Wild Nights in any kind of staff capacity, please, log in, make a post on the Event Planning board, and indicate what you would be interested in helping with. I'll also make a post there -- please just reply to that post so we can keep everything together.

Second, if want to stay in the hotel at the park or rent one of the cabins, contact the park ASAP to make your reservation! Those things fill up relatively quickly as the time approaches, so get your reservation in early! You can find information on pricing and the different options on the Park page. Note that this applies only if you want to rent one of the private cabins located outside the group camp. Staying in one of the cabins at the campsite is included in your registration.

2009 Aug 29: Gallery Open

The initial testing phase of the Gallery is now open! Help us populate it with content. You can access it through the 'Community' tab on the Navbar.

Also, Wild Nights Planning meeting is tonight, Saturday, at 7:30, at Heros's House or via Team Speak. Instructions for Accessing Team Speak can be found in the MESA FAQ (On the Navbar, click MESA, then FAQ).

2009 Aug 21: 2010 Registration Opening

With the introduction and rollout of the reorganized website, we're announcing that registration will be opening at the beginning of September! Pricing is the same as last year. The 2010 T-shirt design is not yet finalized. Workshops may also be added depending on interest and availability of people to run them.

There will be a General Membership Meeting on September 19th, 2009 at 7:30 PM. Physical location is at Heros's house in Kansas City, MO. The meeting will also be available via Team Speak -- instructions can be found in the MESA FAQ page.

An informal round-table discussion meeting has been schedule for August 29th, 2009 at 7:30 PM. Just general open discussion and planning. Available via Team Speak.

2009 July 28: Web Site Logins

We've just rolled out an update to fully correct the case-sensitivity issues with the login system, and with lost-password recovery. Our deepest appologies for the delay in resolving this issue, please let us know if you have any further problems logging in!

2009 May 14: Videos

The gallery is under development and proceeding nicely, and should be available in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, though, some videos from Wild Nights 2009 have been posted!

2009 Apr 30: Web Site Logins

All login information that we have is updated. If you cannot log in for any reason, please check out the Login page and send an E-mail to the account listed. We want to help you be able to access the site!

The most common cause of being unable to log in is your username not being capitalized the same way you entered it when you first logged in. We can help with that! We'll be making some changes to the registration system soon to correct the case-sensitivity problems.

2009 Apr 29: Post-Event Update

It was a blast! That's all we can say. Exhausting but rewarding hard work. We're in the process of wrapping things up over the next few days, finishing unpacking and getting all the paperwork taken care of.

Soon we'll have a Contact Information board up, and will have dues and accounts created for those who registered at the door. The Contact Information will be available only to dues-paid members of MESA, so you don't have to worry about the information being posted publically.

All in all, the event was a great success, for the first year. A few issues with scheduling that we'll work on resolving, and some things we learned that will make things go better next year.

We will be working on a photo gallery feature for the website soon. In the meantime, would love to hear people's thoughts and experiences posted to the Open Discussion forum!

Thanks to all who attended and especially to those who volunteered, for helping to make the first Wild Nights a huge success, and we hope to see everyone back next year! If you are interested in being involved, please drop a line on the forums or contact one of the staff. Wild Nights is a community-run event, so we need your involvement, input, and support to make it a success!