Whether your game is Blackjack, Roulette, Craps, or Poker, look no further than the Northeast to spin the wheel or roll the dice. New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey are home to some of the region’s finest resort casinos, where gaming and golf happily coexist with major entertainment complexes, first-class spa facilities, shopping, dining, and more. Here’s your insider’s guide to the best golf and gaming properties the Northeast has to offer.

Turning Stone Resort & Casino, New York
Set in a rural landscape of forests, blue Harvestor silos, red barns, and grazing cattle, Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona, N.Y., is a destination unto itself that welcomes more than 4 million visitors a year.

Before the Oneida Indian Nation built this resort in 1993, the town’s claim to fame was harness races. But thanks to the new resort casino, there's a lot more to bet on with now more than 80 table games, 2,400 Instant Multi-Games machines, and even a skins game at one of Turning Stone’s five world-class golf courses.

Pleasant Knolls and Sandstone Hallow are the shorter nine-hole courses here. Pleasant Knolls is a leisurely track with wide fairways and rolling terrain, while Sandstone Hollow, designed by Rick Smith, gets high marks from even low handicappers who find the layout both challenging and fun.

The resort’s 18-hole courses are Atunyote, Kaluhyat, and Shenendoah—arguably some of the best golf courses in the state.

Atunyote, a Tom Fazio gem and the longest of the three, is a links-style course with lakes, vast bunkers, rock formations, and rolling fairways fringed by waving grasses. This course is home to the Turning Stone Resort Championship, which raises money through its “Tickets for Charity” program, a program whose funds are distributed by the Upstate New York Empowerment Fund, a philanthropic arm of the Oneida Indian Nation.

Kaluhyat, by Robert Trent Jones Jr., uses everything in the architect's arsenal: sizable elevation changes, narrow chutes to navigate from tees to wide sweeping links-style fairways, large bunkers, forced carries, doglegs, and six lakes.

Shenendoah, also designed by Smith, is more links-style—especially on the back nine—with grasses, wide sweeps of fairways, and huge bunkers. This is also not an easy track, but it is less punishing than Kaluhyat for higher handicap golfers and is often the preferred course for special event play and outings.

Turning Stone has one of the best practice facilities in the state with bunkers, putting greens, and a range—no doubt one good reason why the Dave Pelz Short Game School has a program here throughout the summer.

Where to Stay The Lodge at Turning Stone features 95 luxury suites with private balconies—some with hot tubs on the balconies—affording woodland and course views. The Tower, the tallest building between Albany and Syracuse, is a 19-story hotel with membership-only dining on the top floor. Stay at The Hotel, one of the largest in Central New York, or one of 62 rooms at The Inn. The Villages RV Park is also just a short shuttle ride away.

Where to Play With two nine-hole golf courses and three 18-hole championship golf courses, there’s no shortage of holes to play. Turning Stone’s casino offers table games like Blackjack, Craps, Let it Ride, Roulette, and Mini-Baccarat, Instant Multi-Games machines, High Stakes Bingo, Keno, and a state-of-the-art Poker Room with tableside food service and complimentary beverage service while you play.

Turning Stone Resort & Casino
5218 Patrick Rd, Verona
800-771-7711, turningstone.com

Foxwoods Resort & Casino, Connecticut
Located in North Stonington, Foxwoods Resort & Casino’s three towering hotels and six casinos rise like the lost city of Atlantis from the green Connecticut landscape. This “city undercover” has just about everything you’ll need for an unforgettable golf and gaming getaway—a great spa, soaring atrium lobby, endless shopping and dining venues, slot and video poker machines, table games, poker tables that are open 24 hours a day, and two impressive golf courses.

Owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, the two Lake of Isles golf courses are situated just across the street from the hotel towers. The North and South Lake of Isles Courses are both designed by Rees Jones. The South Course is private, while the North Course is open for public play.

When they opened in 2005, these courses raised the bar for golf in the Northeast unrolling hole after hole of staggering drama winding through 900 acres of wooded countryside and around a 90-acre lake. Huge carries over deep ravines, wide fairways narrowing to immaculate greens, tees perched high on rock ledges, and sprawling sculptured bunkers draw attention to each hole.

The new MGM Grand at Foxwoods serves up Las Vegas glamour without the long venture west. At the Grand, everything is truly “grand.” Elegant guest rooms and suites, the unrivaled G-Spa, an array of world-class restaurants, headline concerts, and nightclubs—and this is just the beginning; slots, table games like BlackJack, Roulette, 3-Card Poker, and Texas Hold’em, two high-stakes gaming areas, and more.

Where to Stay Deluxe rooms and suites at the Grand Pequot Tower offer a luxury resort experience, and you won’t want to miss dining at the Paragon Restaurant on the 24th floor. Above one of the resort’s gaming rooms, The Great Cedar Hotel is another on-site option, and the Two Trees Inn nearby (shuttle service provided) resembles a classic country lodge with a specialty restaurant, lounge, indoor pool, and fitness room. Or stay at the luxurious MGM Grand where the views from the rooms and suites are reason enough to stay here.

Where to Play Two new Rees Jones-designed championship golf courses surround a picturesque lake. Gaming at Foxwoods only begins with a 3,200-seat High Stakes Bingo Hall, Keno, table games, and slots, including a smoke-free casino with more than 500 slots. Head over the MGM Grand for 60 different table games, slots, two high-stakes gaming areas, and more.

Foxwoods Resort & Casino
39 Norwich-Westerly Rd, Ledyard
800-369-9663, foxwoods.com

MGM Grand at Foxwoods
240 MGM Grand Dr, Mashantucket
866-646-0050, mgmatfoxwoods.com

Atlantic City, New Jersey
With its casinos, major entertainment complexes, shopping, and dining options, Atlantic City is like visiting another planet. Even if you’ve never been a big roll-the-dice kind of person, you’ve got to love the change of pace Atlantic City offers.

Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City has much to brag about including its Elizabeth Arden Red Door Spa and all the goodies begging to be purchased in the Waterfront Shops. Although Harrah’s and its affiliated properties (Bally’s, Caesars, and Showboat) do not have golf courses on site, they do have stay and play arrangements with area golf courses.

If you’re staying in Atlantic City, be sure to play the legendary Atlantic City Country Club. Established in 1897, many golf greats have walked these fairways, including Walter Travis, “Babe” Zaharias, and Don January. For most of its past, the club was private and built up a lot of history in its years. John J. McDermott played here when he became the first American to win the USGA Open Championship in 1912. Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City offers golf packages for those who wish to play here.

Where to Stay Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City offers everything from deluxe rooms to waterfront suites in various towers. Book a room at the Waterfront Tower—Atlantic City’s largest building.

Where to Play Atlantic City Country Club, less than 10 miles west of Atlantic City, is home to18 holes of unforgettable golf mmersed in history and tradition. Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City has a selection of more than 3,700 reel, video, and poker machines, table games, Keno, round-the-clock poker, and more.

Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City
777 Harrah's Blvd, Atlantic City
609) 441-5000, harrahsresort.com

Atlantic City Country Club
One Leo Fraser Dr, Northfielf
609-236-4400, accountryclub.com

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