The beautiful Sky River Casino has over 2,000 slots and 80 table games. Your choices include Sky River Java, Aurelia’s Taqueria, Butcher’s Burger, CA99 Hot Chicken, Fukuro by Kru (contemporary Japanese), Chickie’s Pizzeria, Global Eats (a rotating menu with dishes from France to Greece to Switzerland to Indonesia and all points in-between), Koi Palace Express, Ocean (seafood favorites), Roli Roti, (described as “America’s first gourmet rotisserie food truck,” and lastly, The Upper Barrell wine lounge, and Desserts, which serves, (you guessed it), a variety of soups. There is hanging foliage and a contemporary décor. The Market at Sky River is a beautiful food court area that is clearly a step above your typical casino food court, not just in selection, but atmosphere too. The electronics craps was $3 minimum versus the $25 minimum on a weekend night. There’s even two live craps tables with real dice (which you don’t usually see in California).

The Sky River Casino is just 18 miles south of downtown Sacramento. With a 100,000 square foot gaming floor operated by Boyd Gaming, Sky River’s casino boasts 2,000 slot machines/video poker games including all of the favorites, (Cashman, Cleopatra, etc.), and 80 table games including blackjack, roulette, baccarat and the like, along with electronic versions of these games. It is the closest casino to Sacramento – at a distance of just 18 miles south of downtown. In late August 2022, The Wilton Rancheria Tribe opened their spacious 1/2 billion dollar, 300,000 square foot casino on land just off Highway 99 and Grant Line Road in Elk Grove. (Each colored star represents one of the 7 Sacramento-area casinos.) Sky River Casino Here’s a little more information on each of the six Sacramento-area casinos, in order of their exact driving distances as measured when starting from the Sacramento city hall downtown: Sacramento Casinos Map However here we’re just talking about Indian casinos, which – unlike card rooms – have slot machines, video poker machines, craps tables, and the like.Īs you can see from the map below, these seven casinos are spread out to the north and outskirts of Sacramento. You should note that in addition to the seven casinos, there are ten card rooms within a 20 mile radius of downtown. The Sky River Casino is the closest casino to downtown Sacramento. There are 41 casinos in Northern California, meaning the Sacramento area is home to 14% of NorCal’s casinos.

California’s capitol city is a mecca of sorts for gambling, as there are seven casinos within easy driving distance of Sacramento, including a new one just 18 miles south of downtown.

Thunder valley casino map