- Year Opened
- 1985
- Age Restriction
- 21+
- Property Type
- Tribal Resort Casino
- Regulator
- California Gambling Control Commission
- Tribe
- Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
- Floor
- 415,000 sq ft
- Table Games
- 108
- Machines
- 2,360
About Cache Creek Casino Resort
Cache Creek Casino Resort sits at 14455 Highway 16 in Brooks, California — a rural spot in the Capay Valley roughly halfway between Sacramento and Clear Lake. The property opened in 1985 as a bingo hall owned by the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, a federally recognized tribe whose reservation lies in the Capay Valley of Yolo County. Today the resort spans 415,000 square feet with a 66,000-square-foot casino floor, 108 table games, 2,360 gaming machines, and a 14-table poker room. The operation is regulated under a Class III tribal-state gaming compact with California and supervised by the California Gambling Control Commission / Bureau of Gambling Control.
The tribe has built Cache Creek into the largest tribal casino north of the Bay Area — larger on the table-game side than Graton, Thunder Valley, and Colusa — and the only one in this part of the Sacramento Valley with a full-service hotel directly on the property. The venue runs 24/7 and the 21+ minimum age applies uniformly.
Cache Creek Casino Resort at a glance
Venue photo
Cache Creek Casino Resort
Brooks, California
Amenities & Hotel
On-site amenities
- Open 24/7
- Resort
- Restaurant
- Self-parking
- Shops
- Valet
The full hotel property means visitors can book an overnight stay without leaving the resort. The pool, shops, and multiple dining outlets make the campus self-contained. Valet and self-parking are both available. The resort slot floor runs 2,360 machines including video poker and electronic keno terminals. The property carries 66,000 square feet of actual gaming floor.
Games & Poker at Cache Creek Casino Resort
Cache Creek carries one of the broadest game spreads in the region — 16 game types across table games, poker, and electronic machines.
Games on the floor
The blackjack spread is notably deep — single-deck pitch, double-deck pitch, standard shoe, Lucky Lucky side-bet variant, and all running under the house-banked tribal casino model. Cache Creek can bank its own action directly, which means faster settlement on blackjack payouts and no third-party banker sitting between players and the cage.
Dragon Bonus Baccarat and Mini-Baccarat serve the Asian-facing table-game player base, while Fortune Pai Gow Poker and Pai Gow Tiles round out the Chinese games. Single-deck blackjack is the highlight for card counters and purists — pitch games with the dealer holding cards in-hand are rare in cash-strapped card rooms and remain a selling point for tribal casinos with Class III compacts.
Fortune Pai Gow Poker is a seven-card-format commission-free variant. Let It Ride and Four Card Poker are novelty pit games that fill out the lower-stakes floor. The slots floor runs 2,360 machines across denominations from penny to high-limit, and video poker and electronic keno terminals operate throughout the slot floor.
California Cardroom Law
14455 Highway 16, California
14455 Highway 16
Open in Google MapsLocation, access & nearby casinos
Cache Creek Casino Resort is at 14455 Highway 16 in Brooks, California, in the Capay Valley of rural Yolo County. The drive from Sacramento takes roughly 90 minutes via I-5 north to Highway 16 west through Esparto and the Capay Valley. From the Bay Area, the route runs north on I-80 to Vacaville then northwest via Pleasants Valley Road and Highway 128 through the coastal foothills. Woodland is the nearest town with hotels — about 40 minutes east via Highway 16.
Nearby Northern California tribal casinos include Colusa Casino Resort roughly an hour north, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Wheatland about 90 minutes east, and several small card rooms in the Sacramento Valley. None of them match Cache Creek’s combined table-game count and machine-floor volume.
How Cache Creek Casino Resort compares to nearby tribal casinos
Directory comparison: Cache Creek Casino Resort vs nearby venues
We track resort-class tribal properties within a two-hour drive of the Capay Valley. The comparison below uses directory data only — machine counts, table counts, and amenity tags should be confirmed with each property.
| Property | Cache Creek Casino Resort
This property
| ||
|---|---|---|---|
| City | Brooks | Colusa | Wheatland |
| Address | 14455 Highway 16, California | 3770 California 45, Colusa | 3317 Forty Mile Rd, Wheatland |
| Games in directory | 16 game types | 11 game types | 12 game types |
| Live poker room | Yes (14 tables) | No | Yes (1 variant) |
| Hotel / resort | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Open 24/7 (tag) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Table games (reported) | 108 | — | — |
| Gaming machines (reported) | 2,360 | — | — |
| Read more | This page | Visit page | Visit page |
Amenity checklist: Brooks area casinos
| Amenity / Game | Cache Creek Casino Resort |
|---|---|
| 🎰 Slot Machines | ✓ |
| 🃏 Table Games | ✓ |
| ♠️ Poker Room | ✓ |
| 🎱 Bingo | — |
| 🖥️ Video Poker | ✓ |
| 🍽️ Restaurant | ✓ |
| 🏨 Hotel / Resort | ✓ |
| 🏊 Pool | — |
| 🕐 Open 24/7 | ✓ |
| 🅿️ Free Parking | ✓ |
| 🚗 Valet Parking | ✓ |
What the directory data shows
Strengths and gaps inferred from games, features, and peer count in our CSV-backed directory — not a substitute for a property visit.
Strengths
5- 16 game types — among the broadest spreads in Northern California
- 108 table games and 2,360 machines — one of the larger tribal floors north of the Bay
- Single-deck and double-deck blackjack variants — rare pitch games
- 14-table poker room with Limit Hold'em, No Limit Hold'em, and Omaha 8-or-Better
- Full resort amenities: hotel, shops, pool, valet, multiple dining outlets
Watch-outs
4- Remote rural location — 90 minutes from Sacramento, no other casinos within 40 miles
- No loyalty program name confirmed in directory
- Sports betting not legal in California
- Larger casino floors available in the Bay Area (Graton, San Jose card rooms)
Cache Creek is the heavyweight tribal casino north of Sacramento
If you want pitch blackjack dealt from the hand, Dragon Bonus Baccarat, Pai Gow Tiles, a 14-table poker room, and a hotel in a single stop — this is the property. The 90-minute drive from Sacramento is the trade-off: you are heading into rural Yolo County because what waits at the end of Highway 16 in Brooks is the largest tribal casino in the Capay Valley.
Licensing & Rules
- Age Requirement
- 21++
- Sportsbook
- Not legal
