Tunica Casino Map
Tunica has five casinos, clustered in the Mississippi Delta about 30 miles south of Memphis on the bank of the Mississippi River. This Tunica casino map groups every operating property by area, from the Gold Strike and Horseshoe high rises at Casino Center to the smaller floors at the north end. The casinos sit on the water in the old dockside form, and the legal gambling age across Mississippi is 21.
Illustration An illustrated overview, not to scale. See the interactive map below for exact locations.
Where the casinos cluster in Tunica
Tunica is not a city so much as a stretch of the Delta along US Highway 61, with the casinos gathered in the Tunica Resorts area, the community once called Robinsonville. They sit between the highway and the Mississippi River, which forms the Arkansas state line. The drive from Memphis runs about 40 minutes straight down 61, and that day trip traffic from Tennessee is what built the place.
The heart of it is Casino Center Drive, where Gold Strike and Horseshoe stand as a pair of high rise towers, the largest and best known of the five. A short way off, Hollywood sits on Casino Strip Resort Blvd, the road that once held a longer row of properties. The two remaining floors, Fitz and 1st Jackpot, are at the north end nearer the river. Everything is a few minutes apart by car, strung along the flat Delta roads rather than packed into a walkable strip.
Tunica is a much smaller scene than it was twenty years ago. It grew into the third largest casino destination in the country by 2000 and then shrank as competition opened in Arkansas and other neighboring states. What remains is five working casinos with hotels, restaurants, and golf, quieter than the boom years but still the largest gaming cluster between Las Vegas style strips and the Gulf Coast for the Memphis market.
Tunica casinos on the map
Verified The Gold Strike and Horseshoe pair mark Casino Center; Hollywood sits on the Casino Strip and Fitz and 1st Jackpot at the north end.
The five casinos operating in Tunica Resorts. Rosters drift with closures; Sam's Town closed November 2025. Dated May 2026.
§ Casinos by area
Casino Center Casino Center Drive · the central pair
The core of Tunica gaming. Gold Strike, an MGM property and the tallest tower in the Delta, sits beside the Caesars run Horseshoe on Casino Center Drive, the two largest floors and hotels of the five. Most of Tunica’s headline rooms, restaurants, and poker are here, and this is the cluster most visitors picture when they think of Tunica.
The Casino Strip Casino Strip Resort Blvd
Hollywood Casino anchors the Casino Strip, the road that carried a longer line of properties in the boom years. The themed Hollywood resort keeps its hotel and the former Tunica Roadhouse rooms alongside, a short drive from the Casino Center pair.
The north end near the river
Closer to the river at the north end are the two smaller floors. Fitz, long known as Fitzgeralds, and 1st Jackpot, a former Bally’s property, are the value end of the market, with simpler operations than the Casino Center towers but the same 24 hour floors.
Planning a visit to Tunica
- Getting there
- Memphis International (MEM) is about 40 minutes north. The drive is straight down US Highway 61 from Memphis; there is no commercial airport in Tunica itself.
- Getting around
- The casinos spread along Casino Center Drive, the Casino Strip, and the north end roads. A car is the practical way to move between them; this is not a walkable strip.
- Minimum age
- 21 to gamble, statewide in Mississippi. Verify at the property before a visit.
- Hours & parking
- Casino floors generally run 24/7. The resorts offer free self-parking, with valet at the larger ones; amenities keep their own hours.
Riverboat and dockside casinos
Every Tunica casino sits on the water. Mississippi legalized dockside gambling in 1990 and required the gambling to take place over a river or the Gulf, so the Tunica properties were built on barges and floating platforms moored to the bank of the Mississippi. Unlike the Gulf Coast, which was allowed to move onto land after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the river casinos at Tunica kept the older form, with the gaming floor over the water and the hotels, parking, and dining on land beside it. For a visitor the distinction is invisible, since the floors connect directly to the buildings, but it is the reason the casinos line the riverbank rather than the highway.
Tunica’s boom and bust
Tunica was one of the poorest counties in the country when Mississippi legalized casinos, and gambling changed it fast. The first casino, Splash, opened at Mhoon Landing in 1992, and within a decade Tunica had grown into the third largest casino destination in the United States behind Las Vegas and Atlantic City, with around ten casinos open at the peak and employment in the county rising from a couple of thousand jobs to roughly seventeen thousand by the mid 2000s. The pull was simple, a short drive south from a big city with no casinos of its own.
The decline was just as much about geography. As neighboring states legalized their own casinos the Memphis day trip lost its reason to drive to Mississippi, and the opening of full scale Arkansas casinos at West Memphis and Pine Bluff in 2019 took a direct bite out of Tunica. The 2011 Mississippi River flood and a long downward drift in visitors added to it. Properties closed one by one, and Sam’s Town, after more than thirty years, shut its doors in November 2025, leaving the five that operate today.
Beyond the casino floor
Tunica leans on more than gambling. The Gateway to the Blues museum, in a restored 1895 train depot on Highway 61, traces how the Delta blues began and is the start of a string of Mississippi Blues Trail markers through the county. On the river, the Tunica RiverPark and Museum has Delta exhibits, aquariums, a nature trail, and a close view of the Mississippi. For golf, Tunica National is a championship course with tennis alongside, and River Bend Links offers a Scottish style layout, both an easy break from the floor. The flat Delta farmland and blues heritage are as much a part of a Tunica trip as the casinos.
Tunica casino questions
Q. How many casinos are in Tunica?
Five as of 2026: Gold Strike, Horseshoe, Hollywood, Fitz, and 1st Jackpot. That is down from a peak of around ten in the mid 2000s. Sam's Town closed in November 2025, the most recent to go.
Q. How far is Tunica from Memphis?
About 30 to 40 miles south, roughly a 40 minute drive down US Highway 61. Tunica grew on day trip traffic from the Memphis area, which is still its main market.
Q. What is the gambling age in Tunica?
21, the legal casino age across Mississippi. The general state gambling age is 18, but the casinos serve alcohol and require 21 on the floor. Confirm at the venue, since policies can change.
Q. Which is the biggest casino in Tunica?
Gold Strike, a high rise on Casino Center Drive, is the tallest and largest of the five, with Horseshoe beside it. The two anchor the central cluster that most visitors mean by Tunica gaming.
Q. Why did Tunica's casinos decline?
Competition pulled players away, above all the full scale Arkansas casinos that opened at West Memphis and Pine Bluff in 2019, plus venues in nearby states. The 2011 Mississippi River flood and a long slide in Memphis day trips added to it, taking Tunica from about ten casinos to five.
Q. Are the Tunica casinos on the river?
Yes. They sit on barges and floating platforms on the Mississippi River, a holdover from Mississippi's original dockside law, while the hotels, parking, and other amenities are on land beside them.
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Editorial note
Reviewed by the CasinosMap editorial desk. The five casino roster, the addresses and clusters, the Sam's Town closure, the Memphis distance, and the age and legal facts were checked against current authoritative sources, not prior knowledge. The historical count and any biggest casino claim are dated and treated as a snapshot, since the Tunica roster has changed often.
Sources
- Tunica Convention & Visitors Bureau operating casinos, addresses, clusters
- Mississippi Gaming Commission licensed casinos, minimum age, dockside law
- WLOX and Casino.org Sam's Town Tunica closure, November 2025
- Wikipedia, Tunica Resorts current and closed casino roster, river setting