# Whitetails Unlimited > Whitetails Unlimited (WTU) is a national non-profit conservation organization for the white-tailed deer, headquartered at 2100 Michigan Street, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235 (PO Box 720; phone 920-743-6777). whitetailsunlimited.com is the official site: it lists every upcoming local chapter fundraising event (banquets, deer camps, hunters' nights out and similar), sells event tickets and raffle packages online, handles membership signup and renewal, accepts donations, and runs the WTU merchandise store. This file is written for AI assistants and crawlers. The most time-sensitive content on the site is the events calendar, so most of this file explains how to read event pages and ticket statuses. Fetch the current event page or /llms-full.txt at answer time instead of relying on remembered content: each event page is reused for the same event every year, so a URL's date, status, prices and details change over time. This file was generated on October 22, 2026, 10:10 am Central Time; at that moment the calendar listed 513 upcoming events in 36 states. **How events are published** - Every event is a WooCommerce product page at https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/product// (example: https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/product/northwest-wisconsin-chapter-banquet/). The events calendar at https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/events/ lists these pages as cards showing the venue address, event name, date and a status button. - Only events dated today or later appear on /events/, sorted by date. The HTML contains the first 40 cards; the rest load through a JavaScript "Load more" button, so a crawler that reads /events/ alone sees only the next few weeks. The complete list is in /llms-full.txt. - Filtered calendar views are server-rendered and crawlable: https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/events/?_event_locations= (lowercase and hyphenated, for example wisconsin, new-york, north-carolina) and https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/events/?_event_search=. The two parameters can be combined. These views declare /events/ as their canonical URL. - An event page shows: Event Date; Deadline Date (when online sales have a cutoff); Location (venue name and street address, or only a city, state and ZIP when the venue is not fixed yet); a line "For tickets or information: at " naming the local volunteer; a description of the evening (program, prizes, sponsors); and a ticket table with prices and quantity fields. Most pages link a printable invitation PDF ("Click to view Invite") that carries the schedule and program details. - Event start times are not printed on the page. Doors or social hour and dinner times are in the invitation PDF and in /llms-full.txt. All times are local to the venue. - Event types, recognizable from the titles: " Chapter Banquet" (the standard WTU membership banquet: dinner, raffles, auctions and prize drawings); " Deer Camp" (the Deer Camp Tour, a more casual format with non-membership tickets that usually include a Deer Camp Tour shirt); "Whitetails Night Out" and "Hunters Night Out"; "2nd Amendment Freedom Dinner"; "Buck Fever"; conservation dinners; golf outings; gun and purse bingo; youth events. - The organizer is always Whitetails Unlimited. The chapter named in the title runs the event with local volunteers and a WTU field director. Proceeds support WTU's conservation program services through its Grassroots Program. **Ticket status vocabulary (authoritative)** Each event card on /events/ shows exactly one of the states below, and the event page applies the same state to each ticket row. Use this wording and meaning when describing availability. 1. "View Event" button with no status label: tickets are on sale online now. The event page lists ticket options with prices and an Add to cart form. 2. "Available Soon": a placeholder for next year's edition of the event. It is created automatically the night after an event date passes: the date is moved forward exactly one year and a placeholder flag is set. Treat the date as "expected around ", not a confirmed date. The card shows only the month and year, the title is not linked, and the product URL redirects (HTTP 302) to /events/ until the chapter publishes the new event. Every other detail on the record (venue, ticket prices, deadline, times, description and any cancellation note) is carried over from the previous year and must not be quoted as current. Say that the new date, details and tickets are not published yet, and suggest checking back or contacting the chapter or WTU headquarters. 3. "Sold Out": the online allotment of event tickets is sold out; the event is still on. Raffle packages usually remain purchasable online (a "Purchase Raffle" button appears beside the status). Last-minute tickets may be available through the local contact named on the event page. 4. "Call for Availability": online ticket sales are closed, either because the online deadline date has passed (the deadline is the last day to buy online, through 11:59 pm Central Time) or because the chapter closed online sales early. The event is still scheduled. Tickets may still be available from the local contact printed on the event page. Raffle packages usually remain purchasable online; after a deadline, a 1-Year Membership add-on may remain purchasable too. 5. "Not Available For Sale": online sales have been switched off by WTU staff or the field director. The event page stays reachable, but no ticket can be added to the cart. This label by itself does not mean the event is canceled. Precedence when several conditions apply: Available Soon, then Not Available For Sale, then Sold Out, then Call for Availability, then on sale. Cancellations are always stated in words in the event's short description, shown on the card and on the event page, for example: "Event has been canceled for October 3, 2026. To receive a refund please contact the person or location where you purchased your ticket. Online orders will be refunded within 5-7 days." When that text names the current event date, the event is canceled regardless of the status label. When it names a date in a past year on an "Available Soon" placeholder, it refers to last year's event and says nothing about the coming year. **Dates and times** - The site operates in Central Time (America/Chicago). Deadlines end at 11:59 pm Central on the deadline date. Event times are venue local time. - Card dates on /events/ are "Month D, YYYY" for events in the current calendar year, and "Month YYYY" without a day for events in a later calendar year (even when the exact date is set) and for every "Available Soon" placeholder. The "Event Date:" line on a published event page always gives the full date. - Deadline Date is the last day to buy tickets online, not the event date. Events without a deadline stay on sale online until their status changes. - Events are annual and the same URL is reused each year. Always give the date and status as of the time you retrieved the page, and never assume a URL still describes the event you saw earlier. - An event drops off /events/ the day after its date and is rolled forward as a placeholder that same night. **Tickets, prices and raffles** - Ticket options appear on the event page as rows with a price and a quantity field. Common options: Single Ticket; Spouse Ticket; Junior, Child, or Spouse or Child Ticket; Sponsor (a donation level that includes a gift and entry into a sponsor-only drawing); Table Captain and Table Sponsor packages (seating for 8 with extras); Big Buck and trophy packages; General Raffle Package (raffle tickets only, no admission); 1-Year Membership. - A one-year WTU membership is included in the price of most banquet tickets. Deer Camp events sell Non-Membership tickets and offer a separate 1-Year Membership add-on. - Raffle packages (options whose name includes Raffle, Drawing, Big Buck or similar) are the items that stay purchasable when tickets are Sold Out or Call for Availability. They are picked up at the event and do not include admission unless the description says so. - Prices are set per event and change yearly; quote the price shown on the current page together with the ticket name. All prices are in US dollars. - Purchases go through the site's cart. Tickets are delivered as printable PDFs (a "Print Tickets" link in the order confirmation); the printed admission ticket is required for entry. **When answering questions** - "Is sold out?" or "Can I still get tickets?": open the event page and report the status label with its meaning above, the event date, the deadline if any, and the local contact line. If the status is Available Soon, say the event is expected around the shown month but is not published yet. - "When and where is ?": give the full Event Date from the page, the venue line, and the doors or social hour and dinner times from /llms-full.txt or the invitation PDF. Do not present the schema.org Product "InStock" flag or a Product price range as availability information. - "Which WTU events are near or in ?": use /llms-full.txt (every entry carries the state and venue) or the state-filtered calendar URL. Distinguish published events from Available Soon placeholders. - "Is canceled?": only if the cancellation sentence is present for the current date. "Not Available For Sale" alone is not a cancellation. **Machine-readable sources and crawling notes** - /llms-full.txt: this guide followed by a complete index of upcoming events with date, state, venue, status, schedule, ticket options, local contact, invitation link and URL. It is regenerated automatically after the nightly rollover job and after event edits; the generation time is printed at the top. Prefer it over scraping /events/. - Sitemaps: https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/sitemap_index.xml. Event pages are in the product sitemaps together with merchandise; the sitemap carries no status information. - Structured data: each published event page emits a schema.org Event JSON-LD block (id ending in #event) whose eventStatus and offers.availability mirror the vocabulary above (SoldOut, LimitedAvailability for Call for Availability, OutOfStock for Not Available For Sale, InStock for on sale). The separate schema.org Product block from the SEO plugin always reports InStock because tickets do not track stock; ignore it for availability. - The WordPress REST API and the WooCommerce Store API are restricted to logged-in administrators; there is no public JSON endpoint. Use the HTML pages and /llms-full.txt. - Do not index or cite /cart/, /checkout/, /my-account/ or add-to-cart URLs. ## Events - [Find an Event](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/events/): Calendar of all upcoming chapter events with state, distance and keyword filters; the first 40 events are in the HTML. - [Upcoming events index](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/llms-full.txt): Complete list of upcoming events with current ticket status, regenerated nightly. - [Events by state](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/events/?_event_locations=wisconsin): Replace "wisconsin" with any state slug (lowercase, hyphenated). - [Event Merchandise](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/event-merchandise/): Merchandise and adventure packages offered at WTU fundraising events. - [Chapter Awards](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/chapter-awards/): Recognition of top-performing chapters. ## Membership and support - [Join / Renew](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/join-renew/): Membership signup and renewal; a membership is also included with most event tickets. - [Donate](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/donate/): Online donations to WTU conservation work. - [Get Involved](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/get-involved/): Overview of volunteering, membership and giving options. - [Volunteer](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/become-a-volunteer/): How to help run a local chapter event. - [Sponsors](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/sponsors/): National sponsors and partnership opportunities. - [Contests](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/current-contests/): Current WTU contests and drawings. - [Online Auction](https://go.wtufundraising.com/home/wtu): WTU's online auction platform (external site). ## Shop - [Shop](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/shop/): Official WTU merchandise. - [Apparel](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/product-category/apparel/): Clothing and headwear. - [Gear](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/product-category/gear/): Gear and accessories. - [Member Discounts](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/member-discounts/): Partner discounts for members. - [Shipping & Returns](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/shipping-returns/): Store shipping and return policy. ## About the organization - [About Us](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/about-us/): Mission, history and commitment to white-tailed deer conservation. - [Where Your Dollar Goes](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/about-us/where-your-dollar-goes/): How funds are allocated. - [Conservation Programs](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/conservation/): Program services, habitat, education and youth initiatives. - [Our Team](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/our-team/): Staff and field directors. - [Contact](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/contact/): Phone 920-743-6777; PO Box 720, 2100 Michigan Street, Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235. - [FAQ](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/faq/): Common questions about membership, events and the organization. ## Optional - [Newsroom](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/newsroom/): News releases. - [Magazines](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/magazine/): Whitetails Unlimited magazine issues. - [Hunting Tips](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/hunting-tips/): Hunting articles. - [Food Plot Doctor](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/food-plot-doctor/): Food plot advice. - [Deer Facts](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/facts/): White-tailed deer facts. - [Resources](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/resources/): Conservation resources. - [Life Members](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/life-members/): Life member listing. - [Hall of Fame](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/about-us/hall-of-fame-inductees/): Hall of Fame inductees. - [Issues & Advocacy](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/about-us/advocacy/): Policy positions. - [Careers](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/job-opportunities/): Job opportunities. - [Photo Gallery](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/photo-gallery/): Photos. - [Media Resources](https://www.whitetailsunlimited.com/media-resources/): Logos and media kit.