The casinos are not actually on boats, but are on barges floated on artificial ponds of water. This place is all about gambling – screw normal civilization! To be fair, there is an actual town of Tunica that I heard is pretty nice, but it is far away from the casino area and I didn’t make it down there. There were no other tourist attractions, besides a “Riverpark” next to Fitzgerald’s that offered boat rides, I think. It was all about getting into and out of the casinos as quickly as possible. I saw a couple retail/housing developments, but they didn’t seem to be doing too well. It is pancake-flat cotton fields as far as the eye can see, interlaced with arrow-straight four-lane highways that carry the casino traffic, and a couple gas stations/convenience stores. The setting of the casinos is positively bizarre. (Although you could group Bally’s with the second cluster, since it is right off the road that leads to them).

Fitzgeralds, Bally’s and Harrah’s are on their own, and don’t really fit into either cluster. The northern cluster consists of Gold Strike, Horseshoe, and Tunica Roadhouse. There are nine casinos in Tunica set up in two distinct “clusters.” The first, further south, consists of Hollywood, Resorts, and Sam’s Town. That said, it is a very nice interstate and its nice to see the new infrastructure in the middle of an impoverished area. So everyone you see on the road you know is going to the casino :). I-69 is interesting because it goes nowhere else but the casinos it literally ends right at the road that goes to Sam’s Town. This is more convenient if you are coming from East Memphis or the airport, and it is the route I took. The other way is to take I-55 south to the newly-built interstate 69, which runs west from I-55 to the “town” of Tunica Resorts. This is convenient if you are coming from the Memphis downtown area. There are two ways to get there: One, by going down Highway 61 (Shout out Bob Dylan) which is a limited-access highway but not a true freeway that is the shortest direct route. I expected them to be right outside of town, but it was actually a 30-40 minute drive. Coming from Memphis, I was surprised at how far the drive was to get there. Introduction:There are nine full-service casinos in Tunica County, Mississippi.

I had the opportunity to visit the Tunica, MS area casinos recently.

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