Map of Casinos in Minnesota

Every casino in Minnesota is tribal, around twenty of them run by the state’s eleven Native nations, the Dakota communities near the Twin Cities and the Ojibwe bands across the north. This map of casinos in Minnesota groups every property by region, from Mystic Lake southwest of the cities, the largest casino in the state, to the resorts ringing the northern lakes. Most let you gamble at 18, with 21 the rule where alcohol is served on the floor.

How casinos are spread across Minnesota

Minnesota’s casinos are entirely tribal, so they follow the reservations rather than the highways or the big cities. The map splits roughly between a Dakota south and an Ojibwe north. The Dakota communities run the casinos nearest the Twin Cities, where the demand is, and the Ojibwe bands hold the lakes and forests across the northern half of the state.

The heaviest pull is the metro. Just southwest of the Twin Cities, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community runs Mystic Lake and Little Six at Prior Lake, and Mystic Lake is the largest casino in the state and one of the biggest in the Upper Midwest. Southeast of the cities, the Prairie Island Indian Community runs Treasure Island on the Mississippi near Red Wing. Out in the Minnesota River valley to the southwest, Jackpot Junction at Morton and Prairie’s Edge at Granite Falls serve the farm country.

The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe anchors the east central lakes with its two Grand Casinos, one at Hinckley on Interstate 35 between the Twin Cities and Duluth and one at Onamia on Lake Mille Lacs. These are the casinos most Twin Cities visitors reach first on a short drive north.

The rest ring the north. Around Duluth and up the Lake Superior shore, the Fond du Lac, Bois Forte, and Grand Portage bands run Black Bear, Fond-du-Luth, Fortune Bay, and Grand Portage, the last almost at the Canadian border. Further west, the Leech Lake, White Earth, and Red Lake bands hold the northern lakes and the northwest, with Northern Lights at Walker, Shooting Star at Mahnomen, and the three Seven Clans casinos toward Canada. The reservations are large and rural, so these casinos are often the main draw and a major employer for their region.