Casinos in California: all 95 tribal casinos and card rooms, mapped

Yes — 95 of them in this directory, spread over both halves of the state. What California does not have is a commercial casino industry: privately owned Nevada-style floors are prohibited, so every slot machine in the state sits on tribal land, and the rest of the map is licensed card rooms.

This directory lists 95 gambling properties in California, from large tribal resorts to city card rooms. It is what two open sources — OpenStreetMap and Wikidata — can account for, not a regulator’s licence count, and the two will never match exactly: one licence is not always one building.

Every one we can source is in the table above, sortable by city. By count the north leads with 58 to the south’s 37, but the tightest cluster is in the south: the Coachella Valley around Palm Springs, followed by the San Diego back country.

In five forms: licensed card rooms, Indian casinos, the state lottery, parimutuel wagering on horse racing and charitable gaming. Commercial casino-style gaming is prohibited, and so is online casino play — the sweepstakes workaround was outlawed in September 2025 with effect from January 2026. Sports betting is not on the list either.

It is set by the property, not by the state. Card rooms and some tribal casinos admit players at 18; a floor that serves alcohol in the gaming area generally requires 21. Check the property’s own site before driving, because this is the one fact a directory should never guess at.

No. There is no licensed online casino in California, and the sweepstakes model that stood in for one was outlawed in September 2025, effective January 2026. Sites advertising to Californians operate offshore, outside state jurisdiction — this directory covers land-based properties only and links to none of them.

Two different bodies, because they are two different kinds of business. Card rooms are licensed and overseen by the California Gambling Control Commission. Tribal casinos operate under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, through a compact negotiated between each tribe and the state.

Size depends on which number you mean — gaming floor, machine count, hotel rooms — and this site does not publish a figure it cannot source, so it does not crown one. The largest properties are tribal resorts in the southern half of the state; the table above links each one’s official site, which is where floor and room counts are published first-hand.

Yes, though it is decided property by property rather than statewide. Card rooms and some tribal casinos admit players at 18, while any floor serving alcohol in the gaming area generally sets 21. Because the age is set locally, check the property’s own site before driving — it is the one fact a directory should never guess at.

Indian casinos in California operate on tribal land under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and a compact with the state, which is what allows slot machines and house-banked table games. Licensed card rooms are ordinary California businesses and may only offer player-banked card games — no slots. Both are in the table above, because both are places you can legally gamble.