Get Set to Secure Your 2027 Seat for Our Milestone 25th Festival
Log in or Create a User Account with a username and password. Then, you'll see a User Menu (on the right of your desktop or on the bottom of your mobile) with a link to Registration. After your Registration is submitted, those details are waiting in User Menu > My Registration, and a PayPal invoice will follow in approximately 72 hours. Why Create a User Account: Creating a user account on birding-wv.com is the best way to keep your Festival registration organized and accessible. It's designed to streamline registration and keep your itinerary, lodging details, and PayPal links at your fingertips. Logged-in users need only to go to User Menu > My Registration. Any time. The ability to link private PayPal invoices directly to your user account means you can make secure payments toward your balance and eliminate the risk of transcribing or tracking mistakes. For your privacy, you only need a username and password for a user account; further, we only use your email address in PayPal.
2027, Apr 26 - May 1: Registration opens in stages beginning in October; email notification is sent as stages open. Subscribefor notifications and updates.
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All Festival Packages include a t-shirt and daily field trips, field trip transportation from Burnwood, three professionally catered daily meals, knowledgeable and fun presentations, and happy hour snacks and refreshments, a printed checklist, personal itinerary and name tag. Field Trip Transportation is provided from Burnwood. Trips depart from and return to the Burnwood breakfast location. Birders must transport themselves between Burnwood and their lodging.
Before You Register
- Package options include duration, lodging, and daily field trip.
- Duration: All week (6 event days) Monday through Saturday, Half week (3 event days) Monday to Wednesday, or Half week (3 event days) Thursday to Saturday.
- Lodging inclusive packages begin the night before your first field trip and include the night of your last field trip, (7-nights all week, or 4-nights half-week), with a special rate agreement that we pass directly to you, and we handle the reservations for you. Options range from hotel-style to deluxe cabins in forest settings. Review Lodging.
- Field trips fill on a first-come basis. Any option that cannot be selected, is full and closed.
- Registration forms are manually updated. Occasionally, an influx of registrations cause trips to fill faster than site updates can occur, then Rachel communicates adjustments individually.
- Everyone included on a registration is on the same selected field trips. If individuals within one registration want a different schedule they must submit separate registrations.
- First Half-week package (Mon-Wed) offers Birding by Butt Thursday as an optional add-on, but lodging check-out remains Thursday morning.
- Desktops have easier navigation than phones.
- When you click "Submit My Registration" wait for the "Your Registration is Submitted" screen. Don't navigate away or close your registration form until you see "Your Registration is Submitted." It may take a solid minute for the system to save your selections. Be patient.
Festival Check-in, if your first field trip is:
Monday - meet Sunday at Burnwood for a casual cookout welcome, from 6 PM to 8 PM.
Thursday Cranberry - meet at Burnwood. Breakfast is waiting on the bus at 6 AM and departs as soon as possible.
Thursday Sugar Creek, Fayette Station - meet at Burnwood. Breakfast starts at 6 AM for hot buffet breakfast. Trips depart by 7 AM.
Thursday Historic Excursion - meet at Burnwood at 7 AM for hot buffet breakfast. Trip departs by 8 AM.
Thursday Birding by Butt - meet at Opossum Creek Retreat. Coffee is on at 6 AM, breakfast at 8 AM, outings begin at 9 AM.
Deposit & Payments
Total Balance Due by April 1
Deposit is made from the PayPal link in My Registration. A non-refundable deposit of 15% of your total is required to hold your reservation. Other payments may be made at any time, and are refundable (minus PayPal fees) until April 1.
Payments are preferred directly to your PayPal invoice found in My Registration.
Or write checks payable to "New River Birding & Nature Festival" with "NRBNF" on the memo line, and mail to 310 West Oyler Ave, Oak Hill, WV, 25901.
Set your own payment schedule and personal reminders for payment installments.
A PayPal account is not required to use its portal - you choose your preferred payment method and enter the amount you wish to remit.
To help our nonprofit handle PayPal fees, consider adding ~2% to your payment transactions.
Festival Package Rates 2027
Opossum Creek Retreat Cabins (Premium & Preferred)
Festival headquarters and host to afternoon and evening presentations, meals, and activities. Available first to veteran supporters of NRBNF programs and the non-profit Fayette County Education Fund, Inc.
All week includes 6 event days and 7 nights lodging at Festival headquarters.
1 person: $3,473 ($579/day per person)
2 people: $5,463 ($455/day per person)
3 people: $7,452 ($414/day per person)
4 people: $9,442 ($393/day per person)
Cedar Waxwing Cabin
Strategically located between Festival headquarters and Burnwood rendezvous.
All week includes 6 event days and 7 nights lodging.
1 person: $3,410 ($568/day per person)
2 people: $5,400 ($450/day per person)
3 people: $7,390 ($411/day per person)
4 people: $9,380 ($391/day per person).
Fern Gully Cabins
Secluded and peaceful cabins in the forest, 12 mins (8.3 mi) from our Burnwood rendezvous, and 14 mins (8.1 mi) from headquarters at Opossum Creek Retreat.
All week includes 6 event days and 7 nights lodging.
1 person: $3,350 ($558/day per person)
2 people: $5,340 ($445/day per person)
3 people: $7,329 ($407/day per person)
4 people: $9,319 ($388/day per person - Best Value!)
Half-week includes 3 event days and 4 nights lodging.
1 person: $1,841 ($614/day per person)
2 people: $2,835 ($473/day per person)
3 people: $3,830 ($426/day per person)
4 people: $4,825 ($402/day per person)
Hawks Nest Lodge
All week includes 6 event days and 7 nights lodging.
1 person: $2,760 ($460/day per person)
2 people: $4,750 ($396/day per person)
Half-week includes 3 event days and 4 nights lodging.
1 person: $1,435 ($478/day per person)
2 people: $2,430 ($405/day per person)
Festival Only, No Lodging
All week includes 6 event days ($332/day per person)
1 person: $1,990
2 people: $3,980
3 people: $5,969
4 people: $7,959
Half-week includes 3 event days ($332/day per person)
1 person: $995
2 people: $1,990
3 people: $2,985
4 people: $3,980
