Red Hawk Casino alfresco capital of California has opened “The Apex,” an amusement and amusement center of attention the resort hotel hopes testament guide inward a new client demographic.

Red Hawk is set inwards Placerville nigh 30 miles eastward of the Calif. capital. Owned and operated by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, Red River Hawk’s newest non-gaming attractor is an exertion to enticement families to the tribal resort.

The Apex is an 80,000-square-foot facility reinforced on teetotum of an existing parking service department at the casino. The attraction features indoor go-karts, an 18-lane high-tech “ultramodern” bowling alley, a virtual reality arcade, golf game simulators, and a sports bar.

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— Red Hawk Casino (@RedHawkCasino) December 27, 2022

Red Hawk says The Apex is home to the state’s number 1 fully electric, multi-level, indoor go-kart racecourse. The roughly quarter-mile cart track was designed and built past 360 Karting, a Slovenia-based firm.

The golf simulators come from Golfzon, a South Korea-based manufacturer. The hitting bays earmark players to examine their skills on many of the world’s topper golf courses.

The Apex bowling alleyway offers “state-of-the-art interactive” bowling with easy couch seats and an regalia of tech features untypical of bowling alleys of yesteryears. The virtual colonnade features dozens of immersive games.

The Apex opened to the public on December 26.

Family Appeal

Red Hawk Casino offers more than 2,500 slot machines and 75 tabularise games. The tribal casino opened inwards December 2018.

The resort hotel additionally features Captain Hicks restaurants, positive a kid-friendly arcade called Cyber Quest, which offers only non-violent games.

The casino serves as the economic heartbeat of the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. As gaming continues to expand across the US, as comfortably as inwards Northern California where tribes go along to enlarge their casino operations, Red Hawk is seeking to diversify its resort hotel with The Apex.

We wanted to focalize on family-friendly entertainment,” Red Hawk Casino CEO Great Commoner deLugo told The capital of California Bee.

deLugo said the federation of tribes initially considered next its competitors’ leads inwards developing non-gaming entertainment focused on concerts and theatrical shows and events, adding that the folk opted for a different draw close with The Apex.

“We wanted to come something that the unit household could amount and enjoy,” the Red Hawk Casino hirer added. “We’re trying to supply something family-friendly for the unit family.”

Along with its new family-friendly amusement space, Red Hawk is currently building the casino’s foremost hotel. The property, which is expected to reach out pass completion ahead of time next year, will feature 150 guestrooms and suites.

Sports Bar to Sportsbook

The Apex is mostly surface to all ages, the lone exception being The Apex Grill, as the sports exclude features bar-top video stove poker machines. deLugo says the gambling casino plans to make The Apex Grill the property’s on-site sportsbook should a alteration to CA law amount inwards the future.

Californians endure month voted against two ballot measures that sought to authorise sports betting. Proposition 26 would feature allowed retail sports betting at tribal casinos and state-licensed racetracks. Proposition 27 would have got permitted gaming tribes in California and commercial message sports betting entities like BetMGM and DraftKings to operate online sportsbooks. Both were easy foiled by voters.

deLugo, however, believes it’s only if a affair of clip until the competing gaming interests inwards CA square off their differences and chance mutual ground to earmark sound sports gaming to come up to the Golden State.