Arizona Charlie's Boulder is a 301-room hotel and a

locals casino A locals casino is a casino designed primarily to attract residents of the area in which it was built rather than tourists or vacationers. The term is most commonly associated with casinos in Nevada, United States, to distinguish them from casino ...

located in

Paradise, Nevada Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the city of Las Vegas. It was formed on December 8, 1950. Its population was 191,238 at the 2020 census, making it the fif ...

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. It is owned and operated by

Golden Entertainment Golden Entertainment is an American gaming company based in Enterprise, Nevada that operates casinos, taverns and slot routes. It was formed in 2015 by the merger of Golden Gaming (founded in 2001 by Blake Sartini) and Lakes Entertainment. It is ...

. It is located on

Boulder Highway State Route 582 (SR 582) is a major highway in the Las Vegas Valley. The highway is the former route of U.S. Route 93 (US 93) and US 95 (and, historically, US 466) before they were moved to the current freeway alignment shar ...

between

Boulder Station Boulder Station is a hotel and casino located in Sunrise Manor, Nevada on Boulder Highway. It is owned and operated by Station Casinos. Groundbreaking began on August 5, 1993. The project was built at a cost of $103 million, and opened on August ...

and

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History

Arizona Charlie's Boulder and

Arizona Charlie's Decatur Arizona Charlie's Decatur is a 258-room hotel and casino with a locals casino in the Charleston Heights area of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It is owned and operated by Golden Entertainment. History Arizona Charlie's Decatur (and Arizona C ...

are the result of original efforts by the Becker family, long established developers in Las Vegas. In January 2000,

American Casino & Entertainment Properties American Casino & Entertainment Properties (ACEP) owned and operated 4 casinos. It was purchased by Golden Entertainment in October 2017 for $850 million. ACEP was a casino holding company headquartered at the Stratosphere Las Vegas. ACEP was a wh ...

(ACEP) purchased the Sunrise Suites on Las Vegas' Boulder Highway for $43.3 million. The property's hotel had already opened, but without its casino portion, as the prior owner failed to receive a gaming license. The casino opened on May 23, 2000, when the entire property was renamed Arizona Charlie's East. It was a companion to Arizona Charlie's West (later Arizona Charlie's Decatur), also owned by ACEP. The two properties are 10.4 miles apart. The casino's namesake was "Arizona" Charlie Meadows, a performer in

Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as "Buffalo Bill", was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman. He was born in Le Claire, Iowa Territory (now the U.S. state of Iowa), but he lived for several years in ...

and a distant relative of the original owners of Arizona Charlie's Decatur, the Becker family. The property was renamed Arizona Charlie's Boulder on January 1, 2003. In October 2017,

acquired Arizona Charlie's Boulder as part of its $850 million purchase of ACEP.

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