Durango Casino in Las Vegas Opens to Much Fanfare

(Image: courtesy of Durango Resort / X)

The newest casino in Las Vegas opened on Tuesday. Throngs of customers began filing into Durango Casino and Resort at 10 a.m., wide-eyed and smiling. 

Located about 12 miles southwest of the Strip, Durango adds 200 hotel rooms, 2,300 slot machines and 60 table games (but no spa or movie theater) to a surprisingly casino-less quadrant of Las Vegas that has grown rapidly over the past decade.

Consider it proof of concept. With Durango, Red Rock Resorts and Station Casinos are showing that for $780 million they can quickly throw up a locals destination that is plenty luxe without being pretentious … all while becoming a focal point that changes an entire section of the city. 

Red Rock Resorts CEO Frank Fertita (with scissors) and Vice Chairman Lorenzo Fertita do the ceremonial honors the next generation of suburban Las Vegas casinos. (Image: courtesy of Station Casinos / Facebook)

The opening kicks off a growth plan for Red Rock that will see similar casino-resorts pop up around town, with their next planned construction tagged as Inspirada in Henderson.