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Where to gather in Ellensburg

Ellensburg, Washington has 8 mapped venues in this dataset. Here is the shape of them, who they suit, and what an event67 rollout costs once you have picked one.

What Ellensburg has to put people in

Ellensburg has a recorded population of 20,996 (2024), inside the Ellensburg, WA area of about 48,000 people.

The mapped inventory is 3 dedicated conference and function spaces and 5 independent event spaces.

That is roughly 38 venues per hundred thousand residents, which is a dense field for a city this size — you will usually have a second choice at the same capacity.

By type that is 5 event spaces, 2 conference centres and 1 hotel with function space.

Conference and function space (3)

VenueTypeStated capacityFrom the centre
Mary Grupe Conference Centerconference centrenot published0.9 km (0.6 mi)
Munson Conference Centerconference centrenot published0.7 km (0.4 mi)
Quality Inn & Conference Centerhotel with function spacenot published2.3 km (1.4 mi)

Independent event spaces (5)

VenueTypeStated capacityFrom the centre
Brightside Vintage Farmsevent spacenot published8.9 km (5.5 mi)
The Cattle Barnevent spacenot published25 km (16 mi)
Webb's Badger Pocket Party Barnevent spacenot published14 km (8.8 mi)
Stonehouse 101event spacenot published42 km (26 mi)
The Party Barnevent spacenot published16 km (10 mi)

Every venue mapped in Ellensburg appears above. The ones with enough published detail to be worth reading have their own guide and are linked; the rest are named here, which is honest about what the record holds without giving each of them a page made of three facts.

Flights, time and distance

Yakima Air Terminal (YKM) is 48 km (30 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.

Local time is Los Angeles time (America/Los_Angeles) — set every session time in the app to that zone and let attendees' phones do the conversion.

Yakima, Wenatchee and Moses Lake are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Ellensburg has nothing free on your dates.

Nearest major airport
YKM
Yakima Air Terminal, 48 km (30 mi)
Local time
UTC−7
America/Los_Angeles, in September
City population, 2024
20,996
48,000 across the Ellensburg, WA area

The local constraints

No exhibition hall on record

Nothing in the Ellensburg dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre, so a trade floor needs either an arena floor, a fairground, or a nearby city. Check the arena listings above before you promise exhibitors a booth plan.

No published capacities

Not one Ellensburg venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page. Every room on the list will quote you a number directly, but you cannot compare them before you call, so build a fortnight of venue calls into the plan.

Arrival is a half-day

48 km (30 mi) from YKM means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.

The bill for a Ellensburg programme

A Ellensburg programme at 240 activated attendees — a mid-sized Ellensburg programme, since no Ellensburg venue publishes a capacity in open data — prices like this. Nothing is charged for the first 50, and nothing at all is charged past 1,000.

activated attendees
240activated attendees
billable, after the first 50 are free
190billable, after the first 50 are free
for the whole event, at $5 each
$950for the whole event, at $5 each

You are billed for people, not for the venue, so the room you choose in Ellensburg does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.

What sort of event fits here

No capacity is published for any Ellensburg venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.

  • training days and workshops

    3 purpose-built function spaces are the easiest kind of room to run a workshop in — the power and the load-in already assume it.

  • leadership retreats

    Smaller rooms suit a retreat better than a hall does, and Ellensburg has them.

Where this data comes from

  • GeoNames, CC BY 4.0
  • US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 estimates
  • Wikidata, CC0
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • US population figures are US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. event67 has no commercial relationship with any venue listed.

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What it costs

Free up to 50
activated attendees, on one live event
$5
per activated attendee beyond 50
$4,750
the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000

Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

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Questions people actually ask

Price a Ellensburg event at 240 attendees — what is the total?

240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. The price is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

How big an event can Ellensburg hold?

No Ellensburg venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 8 venues are mapped here and each will quote a capacity directly. Ask for the seated, theatre and reception figures separately — they differ by a factor of two or more in the same room.

Can you run a trade show in Ellensburg?

Nothing in the Ellensburg dataset is classified as a convention or exhibition centre. A trade floor here means an arena floor, a fairground or a venue in a nearby city such as Yakima. For a conference without an exhibition, the 8 venues on this page are the field.

Which airport do attendees fly into for Ellensburg?

Yakima Air Terminal (YKM), about 48 km (30 mi) from the city. It is the highest-traffic airport within reach in this dataset. Local time is America/Los_Angeles; publish every session in that zone and let attendees' phones convert it.

Is there a free tier for a small Ellensburg event?

One live event with up to 50 activated attendees costs nothing. Beyond that it is $5 per activated attendee beyond the first 50, and the total for one event stops at $4,750 however many more attend. Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.

Running something in Ellensburg?

Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.