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Earl K. Long Gymnasium

An arena in Lafayette, Louisiana. This page collects the address, the access and the capacity figures an organizer needs before a site visit.

Price your eventWhat fits here
Opened
1939
87 years old
From LFT
3 km (1.9 mi)
Lafayette Regional Airport
From the centre
1.4 km (0.9 mi)
of Lafayette

Figures as published in open data, retrieved 3 September 2026. Capacities vary by layout — confirm the one you want with the venue.

What the record holds

It sits in Lafayette, right in the centre of Lafayette.

Earl K. Long Gymnasium was opened in 1939 and operated by University of Louisiana at Lafayette, which puts it at 87 years old.

Neither a capacity nor a floor area is published for Earl K. Long Gymnasium in any open source, so the numbers on this page describe where it is and what it is, not how many it holds. The venue will quote you directly.

Operator
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Owner
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Coordinates
30.2114, -92.0189
Classified as
arena

How attendees reach it

Lafayette Regional Airport (LFT) sits 3 km (1.9 mi) out, so a same-day return is realistic for anyone flying in for one session.

Being 1.4 km (0.9 mi) from the middle of Lafayette means attendees can walk from their hotel, which removes the single most complained-about line in most event budgets.

Lafayette has 12 venues mapped in total and a population of 122,280. The Lafayette guide covers the airport, the local time zone and what else is bookable nearby.

Programming it

Think of it as one room in a bigger plan: a training day, a members' evening, a committee that needs to be in the same place. It is 5th of 12 venues mapped in Lafayette.

  • award ceremonies

    A stage, a bowl of seats and a control room already in place.

  • company all-hands

    One room, everybody in it, nobody watching on a screen in an overflow space.

What event67 costs at this capacity

Take 240 people through the door in Earl K. Long Gymnasium — a plausible programme at a venue of this kind in Lafayette. 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 room, so this figure does not change if you move the event down the road. event67 has no floor-plan or booking product — the venue handles the space, the app handles the people in it.

1,000
activated attendees at Earl K. Long Gymnasium, and what each dot costsOne dot ≈ 10 attendees

Elsewhere in Lafayette

3 other venues in Lafayette have enough published detail for their own guide. Worth a shortlist before you commit.

Where these numbers come from

event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

  • Wikidata, CC0
  • Venue data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License.
  • Geographic data © GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  • Retrieved 3 September 2026. 6 distinct facts from the record are rendered on this page: year opened, operator, owner, encyclopaedia entry, nearest airport with distance, photograph on Wikimedia Commons.

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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

What is the capacity of Earl K. Long Gymnasium?

Not published. Neither a seated capacity nor a floor area for Earl K. Long Gymnasium appears in any of the open sources behind this page, so quoting one would be a guess. The venue will give you the figure; ask for seated, theatre and reception separately.

What does an event app cost for an event at Earl K. Long Gymnasium?

240 activated attendees means 190 billable after the free 50, so $950 for the event. That example is a plausible programme at a venue of this kind in Lafayette. The rate 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.

Is event67 affiliated with Earl K. Long Gymnasium?

No. event67 is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to this venue or its operator. This page is compiled from open data — OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and public census sources — and links to the venue’s own website where one is published.

What else is nearby if Earl K. Long Gymnasium is booked?

Blackham Coliseum (5,500), Cajundome & Convention Center and Hope Lodge No. 145 are in the same city and have their own pages here. 12 venues in total are mapped in Lafayette.

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