Quechan Casino Resort’s nearly 3,000-square-foot gaming space houses 1,000 gaming machines and two-dozen table and poker games, open 24/7. It was an economic boom time and gamers showed up left and right.” Tribal member Charles Montague Sr., general manager of Paradise Casinos, says: “It was a wise move to put two casinos close together, because, initially, Arizona didn’t have any table games, but California did. The newest addition was deemed a “Mediterranean Oasis in the Desert” by, with the Casino City Times describing it as “a transformation of sand-covered hills into a new $200 million casino-resort.”Ĭharles Montague, Sr., Quechan Tribal member and general manager of Paradise Casinos (Lee Allen) To accommodate growing consumer demand, the tribe debuted Quechan Casino Resort on the other side of the state line in 2002, just six minutes from Yuma, where they could offer table games under California State law.

Thanks to the area’s warm winter temperatures, the casino capitalizes on the cold weather tourism trade, additionally aided by Interstate 8, which several million cars traverse annually on their way to and from Phoenix and San Diego. In 1996, the tribe expanded operations, opening Paradise Casino, which initially offered 475 slots, live poker, keno and bingo, and a full-service restaurant. Yuma Indian Reservation entered the field of gaming with their 300-seat bingo hall.

It’s been 20 years since the Quechan Tribe of the Ft. Today the 45,000-acre reservation that straddles the lower Colorado River, just north of the Mexican border, houses two bustling gaming houses-Paradise Casino in Yuma, Arizona, and Quechan Casino Resort in Winterhaven, California. If you walk out of the Quechan Tribe’s Arizona casino, the California state line is only 18 inches away, so it made business sense to have a casino in both states. One tribe two casinos: Quechan Casino Resort in Winterhaven, California,

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