Where to hold a conference in Manteca
This guide covers 1 mapped venue in Manteca, California, what each one holds, and how attendees get to them. Oakwood Lake Amphitheatre is the best-documented room in the set.
Where Manteca holds a crowd
Manteca has a recorded population of 94,292 (2024), inside the Stockton-Lodi, CA area of about 816,000 people.
Across the city the dataset records 1 independent event space.
By type that is 1 event space.
Independent event spaces (1)
| Venue | Type | Stated capacity | From the centre |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakwood Lake Amphitheatre | event space | not published | 3 km (1.9 mi) |
Every venue mapped in Manteca 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.
Getting attendees to Manteca
San Francisco International Airport (SFO) is 104 km (65 mi) away, far enough that arrival day is genuinely a travel day and a first session before noon will lose people.
The city runs on Los Angeles time (America/Los_Angeles). Schedules published in one zone and read in another are the most common cause of a half-empty first session.
Stockton, Tracy and Modesto are close enough to draw from for a day rate, and to fall back on if Manteca has nothing free on your dates.
- Nearest major airport
- SFO
- San Francisco International Airport, 104 km (65 mi)
- Local time
- UTC−7
- America/Los_Angeles, in September
- City population, 2024
- 94,292
- 816,000 across the Stockton-Lodi, CA area
Before you hold a date
No exhibition hall on record
Nothing in the Manteca 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 Manteca 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
104 km (65 mi) from SFO means most attendees lose a morning to travel. Open registration the evening before and put nothing you care about in the first slot.
The city is smaller than the market
94,292 people live in Manteca itself, but about 816,000 live in the wider Stockton-Lodi, CA. Your local audience is far bigger than the city line suggests, and so is the commute your day-rate attendees will make.
A worked example, sized to Manteca
Take 240 people through the door in Manteca — a mid-sized Manteca programme, since no Manteca venue publishes a capacity in open data. The first 50 activated attendees are free on every event, so only the rest are billed, and the total stops moving at 1,000 however many more turn up.
- 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 Manteca does not change this figure. Nothing is charged for an attendee who registers and never opens the app.
Which kind of event this suits
No capacity is published for any Manteca venue, so match the format to the room on your site visit rather than to a number on a listing.
- community meetings
Nothing in Manteca publishes a capacity, so start with the format that scales down: a single room, one track, no exhibition.
- networking mixers
A mixer works in almost any room, which makes it the safe first event in a new city.
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.
Last updated
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.
Questions people actually ask
Price a Manteca 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 Manteca hold?
No Manteca venue publishes a capacity in the open sources behind this page, so there is no honest number to quote. 1 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 Manteca?
Nothing in the Manteca 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 Stockton. For a conference without an exhibition, the 1 venues on this page are the field.
Which airport do attendees fly into for Manteca?
San Francisco International Airport (SFO), about 104 km (65 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 Manteca 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.
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Running something in Manteca?
Set the schedule, invite the room and watch who actually turns up. Free for your first 50 activated attendees, on one live event.