About
About this directory, and the rule it is built on
CasinosNear.com answers one question — which land-based casinos are near you, and what is actually known about them. Every property here has real coordinates, the map ranks them by drive rather than by who paid, and the fields nobody has published are left empty rather than filled in with something plausible.
- 980
- Properties in the directory
- 44
- States they sit in
- 373
- With an official site on file
- 153
- Publishing opening hours
One rule: no fact without a source
Casino directories are usually built by scraping each other, which is why the same wrong opening hours appear on nine sites at once. This one is built from two open datasets, and where they are silent, so is the page — which is why two of the figures above are as low as they are. A property with no published hours says "not published" in every table on this site, and that is information rather than an omission.
The same rule decides what does not exist here. Both of the pages below would rank; neither would be true.
Two pages this site does not have
A fifty-row gambling-age table
That answer comes from three unequal authorities — state statute, tribal compact and the individual property’s own door policy — and only the first is a public document. What exists instead is a guide that says which of the three governs, and a note on each property to check its own site.
A "biggest casino" ranking
The figures behind one — floor area, machine count, hotel rooms, revenue — are not published in a comparable form, and tribal operators are not required to publish them at all. A ranking built from the few who do would be flattering them for the disclosure.
The rule also decided the dataset itself. Montana's 225 records — a fifth of everything we had — were dropped before launch: 218 of them had no website and no Wikidata entry, and in Montana that mostly means a bar with a few machines, tagged identically to a resort floor. A directory whose rows cannot be stood behind is not a directory.
Whether a row is really a casino is the easier question. The harder one is whether it still is, and open data is not built to answer it: Wikidata documents the Las Vegas of the 1950s in the same detail as the Las Vegas of today, so the Moulin Rouge, which closed after six months in 1955, and the Lady Luck, whose building is now the Downtown Grand, arrive looking exactly like somewhere you could drive tonight. A directory that cannot tell those apart is a history of casinos, not a map of them.
So closure is checked the way everything else here is — against sources, and more than one. A property comes out when Wikidata records a closing or demolition date, when it says the place was replaced by something else, or when Wikipedia files it under defunct or demolished; and a row that exists nowhere but Wikidata, with no website and not even an encyclopedia article, comes out for the same reason Montana did. That is 90 entries. What is left is the part we can say is open.
How the map works
It starts knowing nothing
The map holds every property in the dataset and opens on the whole country. There is no default location, so no distance is shown until you share one. When you do, the ranking is by estimated drive rather than by straight-line distance, because a river or a freeway between you and a casino is the difference between eight minutes and forty.
The distance is an estimate
And it is labelled as one everywhere it appears: the great-circle distance times a detour factor at an average road speed. The site used to call a public routing service for a real road route and dropped it — the free endpoints forbid this kind of use, and the keyed ones would mean putting an API key in a public page. Turn-by-turn hands off to your phone’s own maps app, which does it better than any web page and already knows where you are standing.
Your position stays with you
Nothing about your location leaves your browser. There is no account, no login, and no tracking of what you searched for.
Play responsibly
This site helps people find casinos. It has no interest in anyone spending more than they meant to: gambling is entertainment with a price, and the price is the house edge on every game.
If it stops feeling like entertainment, the National Council on Problem Gambling runs a free, confidential 24-hour helpline on 1-800-522-4700, and every state casino regulator publishes a self-exclusion programme.
About the data: common questions
Where does the data come from?
Locations, names and most cities come from OpenStreetMap. Official websites and canonical names are corroborated against Wikidata where an entry exists. Opening hours come from OpenStreetMap where they have been contributed. Nothing is copied from another directory.
Why is a casino I know missing?
Either it is not in either source, or it was in one source with nothing to corroborate it. Bar and truck-stop gaming rooms are the usual gap — in several states they are licensed like casinos and tagged like bars. The dataset is rebuilt from both sources on every data run, so a property that appears in either one appears here.
Why does so much say "not published"?
Because it is not published. A field with no source is left empty rather than filled with something plausible: hours, in particular, are the field a reader acts on at eleven at night.
Do you take money from casinos?
No operator pays for placement here. Listings are ordered by name, by distance or by whatever column you sort on — never by a commercial relationship. If that ever changes it will be stated on this page before it appears anywhere else.