Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa · Cabazon

About Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa

Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa is a tribal gaming resort at 49500 Seminole Drive in Cabazon, California, owned and operated by the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians. The resort opened in 2004 and runs 2,700 slot machines and 74 table games on a 24/7 schedule, with a hotel, spa, pool, sauna, jacuzzi, golf, bar, café, grill, self-parking, and valet on site. Gaming is regulated by the California Gambling Control Commission and the Bureau of Gambling Control. Phone: (951) 849-3080; website: morongocasinoresort.com.

Cabazon is in Riverside County in the San Gorgonio Pass, the low mountain pass between the San Bernardino Mountains and the San Jacinto Mountains at the eastern end of the Inland Empire. I-10 runs through the pass; the Seminole Drive address is directly off the highway, approximately 20 miles west of Palm Springs and 25 miles east of Beaumont. For the I-10 desert gateway gaming market, Morongo is the dominant tribal casino destination at the pass, drawing from Palm Springs, the Coachella Valley, and the Inland Empire.

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Gaming Floor

Morongo Casino’s gaming floor holds 2,700 slot machines and 74 table game positions. The spread includes 3 Card Poker, Bingo, Blackjack, EZ Baccarat, Four Card Poker, Mississippi Stud, Pai Gow Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, and Video Poker.

Mississippi Stud is a five-card progressive community card game in which players make three additional bets after seeing their two hole cards and each of three community cards, with payouts beginning at a pair of jacks. The progressive jackpot pays on premium five-card hands. Four Card Poker has players receive six cards and arrange their best four-card hand to compete against the dealer’s four-card hand. EZ Baccarat removes the traditional banker commission by pushing on a three-card banker total of seven.

The 74-table count at Morongo supports a larger simultaneous game variety than most desert corridor properties. Electronic Bingo terminals run alongside the live Bingo hall. The hotel tower and resort facilities — pool, spa, sauna, jacuzzi, golf — give the property full destination-resort configuration on the I-10 corridor.

Poker Room

Morongo Casino’s 13-table poker room spreads 7 Card Stud, Limit Hold’em, NL Texas Hold’em, and Omaha cash games.

7 Card Stud is a format largely displaced by No-Limit Hold’em in the modern California card room market — players receive seven individual cards (three down, four up) with betting rounds between each card, building the best five-card hand. No community cards are used; tracking opponents’ exposed up-cards is central to Stud strategy. 7 Card Stud is available at a limited number of Southern California venues. The combination of Stud, Omaha, Limit Hold’em, and NL Hold’em gives the Morongo poker room more format diversity than most desert-corridor card rooms its size.

Current stakes, active games, and event schedules are posted at morongocasinoresort.com.

Morongo Rewards

Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa operates the Morongo Rewards loyalty program. Members accumulate points through gaming activity redeemable for benefits at the property. The program includes a diamond tier for high-volume players. Current tier structure, point rates, and promotions are posted at morongocasinoresort.com.

Tribal Context

Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa is owned and operated by the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians, a federally recognized Cahuilla-speaking tribe with reservation lands in the San Gorgonio Pass near Cabazon, California. The Cahuilla are the Indigenous people of the desert and mountain areas of Riverside and San Bernardino counties, with traditional territory extending from the San Gorgonio Pass through the Coachella Valley and the Salton Trough. The Morongo Reservation straddles I-10 at the pass entrance. Gaming at Morongo Casino operates under the tribal-state compact with California authorized by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988.

Location

Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa is at 49500 Seminole Drive in Cabazon, California. I-10 runs directly through the San Gorgonio Pass; Seminole Drive is accessible from the Indian Canyon Drive/Cabazon exit immediately off the highway. Palm Springs is approximately 20 miles east via I-10, and the Los Angeles metro is approximately 90 miles west. Self-parking and valet are on site.

★ Editor note

The I-10 desert gateway resort with 7 Card Stud and a full Cahuilla Pass location

Morongo Casino, Resort & Spa sits at the most strategic highway junction in the California desert gaming market: I-10 at the San Gorgonio Pass entrance, equidistant between the Los Angeles basin and Palm Springs. The poker room's 7 Card Stud offering is genuinely uncommon — one of the few places to find Stud between the Inland Empire and the Coachella Valley. The full resort stack (spa, pool, sauna, jacuzzi, golf) and Morongo Rewards diamond tier give regular visitors meaningful incentive beyond day-trip gaming. Confirm Craps and Roulette availability with the property, as neither appears in our directory data.

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Priya Sharma

Responsible Gaming Editor