Casinos in Louisiana: Full List by City

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Louisiana is one of the most casino-rich states in the South. Riverboat properties, a single downtown land-based resort, four racinos and four tribal gaming halls stretch from the Texas border to the Gulf Coast. This page is a plain-English, city-by-city directory of every casino in Louisiana — where each property sits, what it offers, and how the law works. You must be 21 or older to gamble anywhere in the state, and every venue listed here is licensed and regulated. For the ranked online side of the market, our Louisiana online casinos hub is the place to start.

Louisiana Casinos at a Glance: Key Facts

Before the full directory, here is the retail picture in one strip. These figures cover land-based, riverboat, racino and tribal gaming only — not online play, which Louisiana does not license. Use this as a quick reference, then scroll down for the city-by-city list.

For the full breakdown of how winnings are taxed, see our guide to the gambling winnings tax in Louisiana.

How Many Casinos Are in Louisiana & What Types

If you are wondering how many casinos are in Louisiana, the honest answer depends on how you count. State law allows up to 15 riverboat licenses, one land-based casino (Caesars New Orleans, the former Harrah's), racinos at four horse tracks, and federally recognized tribal casinos. Add them together and you get roughly 30 places to play, which puts Louisiana among the top states for casino density in the U.S. South and well ahead of every neighboring state except Mississippi.

The reason the count is hard to pin to a single number is that different sources include different things. A strict full-floor casino count of riverboats plus the land-based property lands in the high teens; add the four racinos and four tribal resorts and you reach about 30; count every truck-stop video poker location and the figure runs into the thousands. For this directory we count the full-floor casinos — riverboat, land-based, racino and tribal — and treat video poker as a separate category covered later. Those venues fall into four legal types, and the difference matters when you plan a trip:

Riverboat casinos

Most commercial casinos in Louisiana hold riverboat licenses, a legacy of the 1991 law that first legalized casino gambling here on the condition the games floated on navigable water. For years the boats had to cruise on a schedule, locking patrons aboard for set sessions. A 2018 reform removed both the cruising requirement and the old space cap, and let operators move their floors onto land-based pavilions adjacent to the moored hull. Today most riverboats are permanently docked, and the gaming itself often sits in a single-level building you walk into from a parking garage. In practice a modern Louisiana riverboat feels like any other resort casino, even though its license is still legally a riverboat one. The state caps these licenses at 15, which is why the riverboat count rarely changes year to year.

Land-based casino

Louisiana licenses exactly one true land-based commercial casino: Caesars New Orleans, formerly Harrah's, in the heart of downtown New Orleans. It received its single land-based license as a special statutory carve-out in the 1990s and remains the only one of its kind in the state. No other commercial operator can hold a land-based license; everyone else works under a riverboat or tribal framework. That is why, no matter how many resorts you visit, only one will technically be a land-based casino.

Racinos

Racinos pair a licensed horse-racing track with a slot-machine floor, blending pari-mutuel wagering and casino-style slots under one roof. Louisiana has four — Delta Downs in Vinton, Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, Louisiana Downs in Bossier City and the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. They are regulated for their slot operations by the LGCB and for racing by the Louisiana State Racing Commission, and they're covered in detail in the other-gambling section further down this page.

Tribal casinos

Four casinos are run by federally recognized tribes under federal gaming compacts rather than the state riverboat system. They sit on tribal trust land and are explained in their own section below. Because their authority flows from federal law, they can operate in rural parishes far from any river. This four-way split — riverboat, land-based, racino, tribal — is the framework behind every property in the directory that follows, so it's worth keeping in mind as you scan the table.

Complete List of Louisiana Casinos by City

Below is the full list of casinos in Louisiana, grouped by region. Every property in the table is a real, licensed venue — riverboat, land-based, racino or tribal — with its city, type and a short note on what sets it apart. Use this as your at-a-glance map of casinos in Louisiana, then read the locale notes underneath for the cities people search for most. If you are looking for casinos in Louisiana near me, find your nearest cluster in the table first, then the regional notes that follow fill in driving distances and what each market is known for. The properties are listed roughly southeast to northwest, the way most road-trippers travel the state.

New Orleans

The casinos in New Orleans Louisiana center on Caesars New Orleans downtown — the state's only true land-based casino, on Canal Street steps from the French Quarter and the riverfront. It connects to a partner hotel tower and is the only place in Louisiana where you can walk straight from a city sidewalk onto a casino floor. Across the river in Harvey, Boomtown New Orleans runs as a riverboat serving the West Bank, while Treasure Chest sits on Lake Pontchartrain in nearby Kenner and recently moved its games into a new land pavilion. The historic Fair Grounds, home of the Louisiana Derby, adds a racino with a slot floor and an off-track-betting network across the metro. New Orleans is the most-visited gaming market in the state, fed by tourism that the other markets can't match.

Lake Charles

The casinos in Lake Charles Louisiana are the standard-bearers for the Texas drive-in crowd. L'Auberge Lake Charles and the Golden Nugget Lake Charles are full destination resorts with golf courses, pools, spas and some of the largest slot floors in the state, sitting side by side on the lakefront. Both run frequent entertainment and dining promotions aimed at weekenders. Nearby Vinton hosts the Delta Downs racino, a quarter-horse track with slots. Lake Charles is the closest large casino market to Houston, roughly two hours away, so Friday and Saturday nights fill up fast and hotel rates climb. For a stay-and-play resort weekend, this is the market most Louisiana regulars name first.

Baton Rouge

The casinos in Baton Rouge Louisiana are headlined by L'Auberge Baton Rouge, a riverboat resort on the Mississippi River with a hotel, spa, pool and a large single-level gaming floor. As the state capital, Baton Rouge sits within easy reach of both the New Orleans and Lake Charles markets, roughly an hour and a half to each, making it a convenient base for a multi-stop casino trip. The city pulls a steady local crowd plus LSU game-day traffic, so weekends tied to the football calendar are the busiest.

Shreveport & Bossier City

The casinos in Shreveport Louisiana and the casinos in Bossier City Louisiana form a single twin-city gaming hub on opposite banks of the Red River. On the Shreveport side you'll find Bally's Shreveport downtown and Sam's Town, a value-focused resort popular with regulars for its comps. Across the river in Bossier City sit Margaritaville Resort Casino, the Jimmy Buffett–themed flagship, Horseshoe Bossier City with its large tables pit, and the Louisiana Downs racino. Together these properties make the corridor the busiest casino market in north Louisiana, drawing heavily from east Texas and Arkansas as much as from Louisiana itself. It's a short hop between properties, so many visitors hit two or three in a weekend.

Lafayette & Acadiana

The casinos in Lafayette Louisiana are a search term that needs honesty: there is no full riverboat or land-based casino inside Lafayette city limits. What locals actually visit are the Evangeline Downs racino in nearby Opelousas, a thoroughbred and quarter-horse track with a slot floor and hotel, and the tribal Cypress Bayou Casino in Charenton. Both are an easy drive across Acadiana, generally under an hour. So while the city itself has no casino, the wider Lafayette area is well-served once you widen the radius a little.

Monroe & Northeast Louisiana

The casinos in Monroe Louisiana scene is similarly limited — no commercial riverboat, racino or tribal resort sits in Monroe itself. The legal play here is truck-stop video poker, which is widespread across the northeast corner of the state. For a full casino floor, residents drive a couple of hours west to the Shreveport-Bossier corridor, the nearest cluster of resorts. It's worth knowing this before a trip, because searches for Monroe casinos turn up properties that are actually in other parishes entirely.

Central & Tribal Lands

Central Louisiana is tribal country. Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville and Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder are the two big draws, with Cypress Bayou in Charenton anchoring the southern edge of the region near the Atchafalaya basin. These resorts sit in rural parishes where a commercial riverboat could never be licensed, because they operate under separate federal compacts rather than state riverboat rules. That distinction — and what it means for players — is explained next.

Indian / Tribal Casinos in Louisiana

The Indian casinos in Louisiana are operated by federally recognized tribes under federal gaming compacts, separate from the commercial riverboat licenses. There are four tribal gaming properties statewide:

Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, run by the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, is the largest tribal property in the state and one of the biggest in the entire Gulf South. It carries a vast slot floor, multiple hotel towers, a 100-acre RV park and a golf course, and it draws a large share of its traffic from across the Texas line. Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville, operated by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe, pairs gaming with golf, a spa, an indoor pool and its own RV park. Cypress Bayou Casino Hotel in Charenton, owned by the Chitimacha Tribe, anchors the Atchafalaya basin and is the main casino for the Acadiana region. Jena Choctaw Pines in Dry Prong, run by the Jena Band of Choctaw, is the smallest of the four but rounds out the tribal map across central Louisiana.

These resorts operate under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), through Class III compacts negotiated between each tribe and the state. Class III gaming covers Vegas-style slots and table games; Class II covers bingo-based machines that some tribes also run without a full compact. Regulation is shared between the tribes' own gaming commissions and the National Indian Gaming Commission, with the state's role limited to the compact terms. That federal foundation is why a tribal casino can sit in a rural parish where a commercial riverboat could not be licensed, and why the four tribes don't count against the 15-license riverboat cap. For most visitors the day-to-day experience is identical to any commercial resort — slots, tables, dining, hotel rooms and a 21+ floor — but the legal basis is entirely separate from the riverboats, which is the key thing to understand if you're researching how gambling works statewide.

Louisiana Casinos with Hotels & Resorts

If you want a stay-and-play trip, most of the big properties are casinos in Louisiana with hotels attached. The table below lists the main casino resorts you can book a room at, with their location and headline amenities.

Caesars New Orleans connects to a partner hotel tower downtown, while the day-trip riverboats such as Treasure Chest and Boomtown New Orleans do not operate their own lodging — visitors there stay at nearby independent hotels. The Lake Charles pair and Coushatta are the strongest full-resort choices if a weekend stay is the goal, since they bundle rooms, multiple dining outlets, golf, pools and the gaming floor on one property. The racinos vary: Evangeline Downs has an on-site hotel, while Delta Downs, Louisiana Downs and the Fair Grounds are day-visit tracks. As a rule of thumb, if a property markets itself as a resort, it has rooms; if it's a riverboat day-floor or a track, plan to stay elsewhere nearby.

Casinos with Slot Machines in Louisiana

Every licensed property on this page is among the casinos in Louisiana with slot machines — slots are the core of the floor at all riverboats, the land-based casino, the four racinos and all four tribal resorts. Coushatta in Kinder and the two Lake Charles resorts run some of the largest slot counts in the state, with thousands of machines each spanning penny reels to high-limit rooms. The racinos at Delta Downs, Evangeline Downs, Louisiana Downs and Fair Grounds are slots-and-racing operations specifically, so their floors are slot-heavy with limited or no table games. Penny and nickel denominations dominate most floors, with dedicated high-limit areas at the larger resorts. Beyond the casinos themselves, Louisiana also allows video poker machines at licensed truck stops, bars and restaurants, which is by far the most geographically widespread form of slot-style gaming in the state and the only legal option in parishes without a casino.

This section is about physical floors only. For online slot game variety, return-to-player percentages and software providers, that topic is covered on our Louisiana online slots guide rather than duplicated here.

Best Casinos in Louisiana

There is no official state ranking, so the best casinos in Louisiana depend on what you want from the trip. These are the physical properties travelers and regulars consistently rate highest, by category:

Best overall city break: Caesars New Orleans, for its downtown location, partner hotel and walkable French Quarter nightlife right outside the door. Best full-resort weekend: L'Auberge or Golden Nugget Lake Charles, for golf, pools, spas and big floors under one roof, with Houston traffic to match. Best tribal floor: Coushatta in Kinder, the largest in the state and a destination in its own right. Best for slot variety: the Lake Charles pair and Coushatta, which run the deepest machine counts. Best in north Louisiana: Horseshoe Bossier City, the anchor of the Red River corridor and a draw for table players. Best value: Sam's Town and Boomtown Bossier City, popular with regulars for comps and easy drive-in access.

If your priority is walkable restaurants and nightlife outside the casino, New Orleans wins easily; if it's a self-contained resort where everything's on property, the Lake Charles destinations are hard to beat. North Louisiana players tend to bounce between the Bossier City and Shreveport properties in a single trip, since they sit minutes apart.

Before you commit, check each property's current amenities directly, since dining outlets, sportsbooks and hotel availability change. Player's-club tiers also vary between operators, so loyalty members often stick to one brand's family of properties across cities. This is a retail picks list; if you're comparing ranked online operators instead, that lives on the Louisiana online casinos hub.

Family-Friendly & Non-Gaming Things to Do

Gaming floors in Louisiana are strictly 21+, so no casino floor is open to children, and that rule is enforced consistently across riverboats, the land-based casino and tribal resorts. That said, the most family-oriented resorts — the kid friendly casinos in Louisiana for a family trip — are the larger destinations with non-gaming amenities away from the slots. Coushatta and Paragon both run RV parks, pools and golf courses; the Lake Charles resorts add pools, lazy rivers, beaches and family dining; and the New Orleans properties put you within walking distance of attractions, museums and restaurants the whole family can enjoy. Children can stay at the hotels and use the pools, dining and entertainment, but they cannot enter the gaming area at any age, and most resorts keep their hotel and amenity entrances separate from the casino floor for exactly that reason. The honest takeaway: treat a Louisiana casino resort as a family hotel with a 21+ gaming wing, not as a kid-friendly attraction in itself.

Other Legal Gambling Options in Louisiana

Casinos are only part of Louisiana's legal gambling picture. The state also runs a lottery, allows video poker outside the casinos, and has a long horse-racing tradition. The table below summarizes each, and the notes that follow add detail. Online sports betting is a separate legal vertical we cover on its own page.

Louisiana Lottery

The Louisiana Lottery Corporation has run since 1991 and sells draw games and scratch-offs at retailers statewide, including the multi-state Powerball and Mega Millions jackpots alongside state-only games like Lotto and Easy 5. The minimum age to buy a ticket is 18, three years below the 21 floor for casinos and video poker. A share of lottery proceeds is constitutionally dedicated to state education funding, which is part of why the program has survived politically when other gambling expansions have stalled.

Video poker

Outside the casinos, Louisiana licenses video poker machines at qualifying truck stops, bars, restaurants and off-track-betting parlors, with the number of machines a location may hold tied to its size and fuel sales for truck stops. This is the most geographically widespread form of gambling in the state and the main legal option in areas like Monroe with no commercial casino floor. It's regulated by the LGCB and the State Police Gaming Division, and the age limit is 21, the same as casino floors. For many rural Louisianans, the local truck-stop video poker room is the nearest thing to a casino there is.

Horse racing & pari-mutuel

Louisiana has a deep horse-racing heritage, anchored by the historic Fair Grounds in New Orleans, the third-oldest track in the country. The four tracks — Delta Downs, Evangeline Downs, Louisiana Downs and the Fair Grounds — double as racinos with slot floors, and a statewide off-track-betting (OTB) network extends pari-mutuel wagering far beyond the tracks themselves. Racing is overseen by the Louisiana State Racing Commission. Pari-mutuel and OTB wagering is open at 18, like the lottery, rather than the 21 casino floor age, so horse betting is one of the few forms of legal Louisiana gambling an 18-to-20-year-old can take part in.

Online sports betting

Online sports betting is legal in Louisiana and regulated by the LGCB, separate from any casino-game question. It went live in January 2022 and is now available in 55 of the state's 64 parishes. We cover the licensed apps in full on our Louisiana sports betting guide.

Who Regulates Casinos in Louisiana

Land-based casinos in Louisiana are licensed and overseen by the Louisiana Gaming Control Board, with enforcement carried out by the Louisiana State Police Gaming Enforcement Division. The relevant criminal statute is La. R.S. 14:90. For the full regulatory deep-dive — including how it applies to internet play — see our page on whether are online casinos legal in Louisiana.

Land-Based vs Online Casinos in Louisiana

The simplest way to frame your choice: land-based casinos in Louisiana are fully licensed and regulated, while real-money online casinos are not licensed in the state at all.

Topics like payments, sign-up steps, bonuses and apps for the online market are owned by dedicated pages: see Louisiana real money online casinos for banking and registration, Louisiana casino bonuses for promotions, and Louisiana casino apps for mobile play. For the ranked operator comparison, start at the Louisiana online casinos hub. On sweepstakes play, a July 2025 Attorney General opinion deemed dual-currency sweepstakes casinos illegal in Louisiana and major brands have exited; pure social casinos using only Gold Coins with no cash redemption appear permitted, though that has not been settled by an explicit ruling.

Responsible Gambling & Getting Help

Every licensed casino in the state participates in the Louisiana self-exclusion program, and resorts post helpline information on the gaming floor. Setting a budget before you arrive and treating any winnings as a bonus, not income, keeps a casino trip in the entertainment column where it belongs.

Editorial note: This page is reviewed for accuracy, legal clarity, bonus transparency, and responsible gambling information. Louisiana gambling laws and operator availability can change, so all legal and promotional details should be verified before publication.