Casinos On The Mississippi River
Beautifully situated on the scenic Mississippi River, Riverwalk Casino. Hotel is your ultimate getaway. Relax in the stylish comfort of our hotel – just steps away from all the gaming excitement and dining pleasures. Our comfortable rooms feature free Wi-Fi, flat-screen TVs and many other amenities to make your stay enjoyable. The Casino Queen, a riverboat casino formerly located on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River near St. Louis Casino Boat on the Mississippi River, Natchez, Mississippi Sam's Town riverboat casino on the Red River, Shreveport, Louisiana.
There’s a lot for visitors to do in Vicksburg, Mississippi, from visiting historic museums to dining at local eateries and more. After a day spent exploring Vicksburg, head to one of the town’s four riverfront casinos for a night of gaming, entertainment and fun with friends and family. Each casino offers their own dining options and hotel accommodations for guests to enjoy. Check out what each of the four Vicksburg casinos have to offer before you book your stay with Visit Vicksburg today.
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Ameristar Casino Vicksburg
Head to the Ameristar Casino Vicksburg, central Mississippi’s largest dockside casino, to try your hand at blackjack, craps, roulette and poker, or get lucky at one of the 1,300 slot and video poker machines. Plan to spend the night? Check in to one of the 149 newly-renovated rooms or park your coach or travel trailer at the Ameristar RV Park. During your stay, don’t miss out on the Ameristar’s restaurants, like Heritage Buffet or Bourbon’s. Ameristar Casino Vicksburg also offers free parking and shuttle service to and from the casino and hotel.
Casino Vicksburg
Get your game on at the Casino Vicksburg, located right along the Mississippi River. With more than 600 slot and video poker machines – in addition to E-gaming tables, featuring craps, roulette and blackjack – there’s always a chance to win big. Looking for a tasty bite to eat? Casino Vicksburg is home to several restaurants, including the Farmer’s Pick Buffet and Otis & Henry’s Bar and Grill, for guests to satisfy their cravings. Spend the night in a comfortable room or suite and enjoy complimentary high-speed internet and freshly brewed coffee 24/7.
Riverwalk Casino Hotel
Fifteen table games and over 600 slot machines await at the Riverwalk Casino Hotel. Enjoy the thrill of placing your bets or win big with your favorite team with sports betting. When your stomach starts to growl, visit the Riverwalk’s Magnolia Hill Buffet or Smiley’s for a delicious bite to eat before you retire for the evening in your cozy hotel room with a view overlooking the Mississippi River.
Waterview Casino & Hotel
With over 30,000 square feet of gaming space, the Waterview Casino & Hotel offers a variety of slots, video poker machines and table games for you to choose from. In addition to blackjack, craps and roulette, the casino also features Mississippi stud poker and Dragon Bonus baccarat. Stop by the Lucky Bean for a quick bite on your way out the door or sit down for dinner at the Sandbar Fish House & Grill. The Waterview hotel provides comfortable rooms where guests can recuperate after an evening of fun.
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Casinos On The Mississippi River In St Louis Mo
Book your stay in Vicksburg, MS and enjoy gaming, dining and more at one of the city’s four notable casinos. Contact Visit Vicksburg for help planning your trip today.
A riverboat casino is a type of casino on a riverboat found in several states in the United States with frontage on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, or along the Gulf Coast. Several states authorized this type of casino in order to enable gambling but limit the areas where casinos could be constructed; it was a type of legal fiction as the riverboats were seldom if ever taken away from the dock.
History[edit]
Paddlewheel riverboats had long been used on the Mississippi River and its tributaries to transport passengers and freight. After railroads largely superseded them, in the 20th century, they were more frequently used for entertainment excursions, sometimes for several hours, than for passage among riverfront towns. They were often a way for people to escape the heat of the town, as well as to enjoy live music and dancing. Gambling was also common on the riverboats, in card games and via slot machines.
When riverboat casinos were first approved in the late 20th century by the states, which generally prohibited gaming on land, these casinos were required to be located on ships that could sail away from the dock. In some areas, gambling was allowed only when the ship was sailing, as in the traditional excursions. They were approved in states with frontage along the Mississippi and its tributaries, including Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri. Illinois also allowed limited riverboat casinos in the Chicago metropolitan area, which has a Mississippi River connection through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, while Northwest Indiana has three 'riverboat' casinos in harbors along Lake Michigan.
An unusual situation occurred on the Potomac River in the mid-20th century due to a quirk in the state border between Maryland and Virginia. The border is not in the middle of the river, rather it is at the low water mark on the Virginia side such that the entire river is in Maryland (except for small portions in the District of Columbia.) As a result, there were several riverboat casinos docked off of the Virginia shoreline in the 1950s, when gambling was legal in Maryland but not Virginia. As the river was in Maryland, visitors could park in Virginia, and walk across a pier, crossing the state line in the process.[1]
As an example, in 1994 Missouri voters approved amending the state constitution to allow 'games of chance' on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. By 1998, 'according to the state Gaming Commission, just three of the 16 operations comprising Missouri's $652-million riverboat gambling industry [were] clearly on the main river channel.' The state supreme court had ruled that boats had to be 'solely over and in contact with the surface' of the rivers.[2] Several casinos had been located on riverboats located in a moat or an area with water adjacent to a navigable waterway, leading them to be referred to as 'boats in moats.'[2] The state legislatures were unwilling to give up the revenues generated by gambling. Over time, they allowed gaming casinos to be built on stilts, though with the requirement they had to be over navigable water.
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which destroyed most riverboat casinos and their associated facilities of hotels, restaurants, etc., in states along the Gulf Coast, several states changed their enabling legislation or amended constitutions. They permitted such casinos to be built on land within certain geographic limits from a navigable waterway. Most of Mississippi's Gulf Coast riverboat casinos have been rebuilt on beachfronts with solid foundation systems since the hurricane.
References[edit]
- ^'Virginia-Maryland Boundary'. www.virginiaplaces.org. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- ^ abSloca, Paul (18 January 1998). 'Missouri's 'Boats in Moats' Get That Sinking Feeling'. Associated Press. Retrieved 3 April 2015.
External links[edit]
Iowa Casinos On The Mississippi River
- Partial listing of permanently moored casinos, DeJong and Lebet, Inc., Naval Architects and Marine Designers