However, there was a Shell station right where I exited so I instead opted to go 'old-school' and ask for directions. On one of our passes back and forth I decided to get off the freeway and check Google Maps and see where we were going wrong. We drove all the way through Porterville without seeing anything that looked like a casino. We couldn't see any signs pointing us to the fairgrounds either. But there was no sign that we could see that would tell us which exit to take. I figured that the place must therefore be easy to find in fact, I sort of assumed that we would be able to spot it from the 65, so I didn't bother to look up directions to get us there.Īs we got closer to Porterville, we did see several billboards for Eagle Mountain Casino, and one showed an address: 1850 West Avenue.

Oddly enough, the numerous television commercials for the new casino never mention an address, they just say the new casino is 'right off highway 65,' by the fairgrounds in Porterville. Just north of Bakersfield we turned off the 99 onto Highway 65, which would take us all the way to Porterville. We treated ourselves to breakfast at the Keene Café, then set out on the 58 to Bakersfield, then caught the 99 north. A couple of days after that my slot-machine loving friend Willie Ray and I decided to go to Porterville to check it out. Perhaps you've seen the commercials on TV about the newly built (and in a new location) Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville – as advertised, the casino, run by the Tule River Tribe, had its Grand Opening on May 9.

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