Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

About Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Wheatland

This property is permanently closed. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino was a gaming and hotel property at 3317 Forty Mile Road in Wheatland, California, that operated from 1995 until its closure. The property ran 660 slot machines and 84 table games and included an on-site hotel. Gaming was regulated by the California Gambling Control Commission and the Bureau of Gambling Control. No gaming activity is currently conducted at this location.

Wheatland is a small city in Yuba County in the northern Sacramento Valley, south of Marysville and north of Roseville along CA-65. The Forty Mile Road address is east of downtown Wheatland in the flatlands between the Sacramento Valley floor and the Sierra Nevada foothills. The property drew from the Sacramento metropolitan area, approximately 35 miles to the south.

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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

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Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Wheatland, California

Gaming Floor

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s gaming floor held 660 slot machines and 84 table game positions. The table game spread included Baccarat, Big 6, Blackjack, Craps, Let It Ride, Pai Gow, Progressive 3-Card Poker, Race & Sports Book, Swim Up Gaming, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, and Video Poker.

Craps was available under the property’s gaming compact, providing the dice game unavailable at California state-licensed card rooms. The Race & Sports Book brought pari-mutuel racing and sports wagering onto the gaming floor alongside the casino operation.

Swim Up Gaming was a novelty format in which gaming terminals or tables were positioned at pool level, allowing players to wager while in the water — a format associated with a small number of destination casino resorts in the United States and uncommon in Northern California. The 84-table game count was large for a Yuba County property, reflecting the resort-scale ambitions of the operation during its active years.

History

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Wheatland opened in 1995, during the early period of California tribal gaming expansion. The property operated on the northern Sacramento Valley gaming circuit for a number of years before closing. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino brand, originally founded as a restaurant chain in London in 1971, was acquired by the Seminole Tribe of Florida in 2007 and has operated globally under their ownership. The Wheatland property carried the Hard Rock brand during its operational period.

The closure left the Forty Mile Road site without an active gaming operator. Visitors who previously patronized this property should note that the Wheatland location is no longer in operation.

Location

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Wheatland was at 3317 Forty Mile Road in Wheatland, California. CA-65 runs north-south through Wheatland, connecting to Roseville and the Sacramento metropolitan area to the south and to Marysville and the northern Sacramento Valley to the north. The property is no longer operating at this address.

★ Editor note

Closed Wheatland resort — 84 tables and Swim Up Gaming during its operating years

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Wheatland is no longer in operation. During its years of operation, the 84-table game floor and Swim Up Gaming format were among the more unusual features in the northern Sacramento Valley market. Players looking for active gaming in the Sacramento region should look to properties currently operating in the Sacramento corridor or the foothills counties.

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Priya Sharma

Responsible Gaming Editor